Apple TV: VoiceOver On and Off

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we are going to be taking a look at a really simple way that we have for quickly turning on and off VoiceOver. Now for those of you that might not know, VoiceOver is Apple's screen reading software, and a screen reader gives a person with a visual impairment the ability to totally use their device, and it does this by speaking the items or the information that is on our screen, and that is pretty fantastic.

All right, if we're new to our Apple TV, we're really going to need to know some basic VoiceOver gestures, and these are the gestures that we will use for navigating through our Apple TV. If we don't yet know these gestures well, it's our lucky day because we just so happen to have an Apple TV video called Beginning VoiceOver Gestures, so we are really going to want to check out that video as well.

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