iPhone/iPad VoiceOver: 1 Finger Gestures

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at how to use some of our beginning VoiceOver gestures, and these are our one-finger gestures.

Now, if you're not yet familiar with VoiceOver, well, VoiceOver's 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 information that's on our screen, and that is pretty fantastic. So let's jump right in and check out all of our one-finger gestures.

Now, we're using our iPhone in today's workshop, but no worries because all of this work pretty much the same whether we're using our iPhone or our iPad. Okay, let's begin by first talking about the orientation of our screen. Now, our screen, of course, is a piece of glass, and the items on our home screen here are laid out in a series of rows and columns.

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