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VoiceOver commands and gestures on Mac
VoiceOver offers commands and gestures for a wide range of actions, from navigation to searching.
General commands: Turn VoiceOver on or off, lock the VO modifier, open VoiceOver Utility, change speech rate and volume, adjust the amount of spoken detail, and get hints and help.
Orientation commands: Hear summaries of open apps and windows; find out where the VoiceOver cursor, mouse pointer, and keyboard focus are located; read the contents of a window; and more.
Navigation commands: Move to items in a window, move to the desktop or menu bar, list all the elements in a window, and control cursor tracking.
Web commands: Move to web items (such as frames and web spots), hear webpage statistics, and change how you interact with tables.
Text commands: Read and edit text in a document and temporarily change how text on the screen is read.
Search commands: Search for text attributes (such as bold or italic), graphics, controls, and other items.
Interaction commands: Interact with controls, work in tables, and move or resize windows and objects.
VoiceOver standard gestures: Navigate and interact with items on the screen using a trackpad and VoiceOver gestures. The Trackpad Commander must be on.
When Voice Control is enabled on your Mac, you can use your voice, instead of your keyboard, to perform some VoiceOver commands. See Use VoiceOver with Voice Control.