Apple TV: VoiceOver Basics

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we will learn how to navigate our Apple TV by using our voice over gestures. Now, if we're not yet familiar with VoiceOver, VoiceOver is Apple's screen reading software. And a screen reader gives a person with a visual impairment the ability to totally use their Apple TV, and it does this by speaking the items, or information that is on our screen.  And I tell you, that is pretty fantastic. Now, by learning just a few basic VoiceOver gestures, we'll soon be moving through our Apple TV with ease.

Okay, let's begin by first talking a little about the orientation of our screen. Now, our Apple TV is oriented a lot like our iPhone or our iPad. Our apps are setup in a series of rows and columns. Now our first gesture is our flick gesture.

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