iPhone/iPad VoiceOver: Setting Shortcuts

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today we're gonna be taking a look at a really quick way that we have for quickly turning on and off some of our most frequently used accessibility features. We'll do this by setting up our accessibility shortcut. Now, once we set up our accessibility shortcut we can just quickly press our side button three times. That is, if our device doesn't have a home button. Otherwise, we'll just quickly press our home button three times, to toggle our favorite accessibility features on and off.

We'll be setting our accessibility shortcut to turn on and off voiceover today. However, we could also set it to turn on and off a lot of our other accessibility features as well. Our accessibility shortcut setting is currently turned off, so let's take a quick look at how to set it all up.

We are using our iPhone in today's workshop. However, all of this will work pretty much the same whether we're using our iPhone or our iPad.

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