Apple iPad iOS 5.1 - Manual (Page 111)

 Two-finger flick down: Read all from the current position.
 Two-finger “scrub”: Move two fingers back and forth three times quickly (making a “z”) to
dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
 Two-finger triple tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-finger flick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
 Three-finger flick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home screen, Stocks,
or Safari).
 Three-finger tap: Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text
is selected.
 Four-finger tap at top of screen: Select the first item on the page.
 Four-finger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.
Activate
 Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
 Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
 Split-tap: An alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping is to touch an item with one
finger, then tap the screen with another to activate an item.
 Touch an item with one finger, tap the screen with another finger (“split-tapping”): Activate the item.
 Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPad to interpret the subsequent gesture as standard.
For example, you can double-tap and hold, then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to
slide a switch.
 Two-finger double-tap: Play or pause in Music, Videos, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos.
Take a photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or stop
the stopwatch.
 Two-finger double-tap and hold: Open the element labeler.
 Two-finger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-finger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
 Three-finger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or off.
Using the VoiceOver rotor control
The rotor control is a virtual dial that you can use to change the results of up and down flick
gestures when VoiceOver is turned on.
Operate the rotor: Rotate two fingers on the iPad screen around a point between them.
Change the options included in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver >
Rotor and select the options you want to be available using the rotor.
The effect of the rotor depends on what you’re doing. When you read text in an email, you can use
the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word, character-by-character, or line-
by-line when you flick up or down. When you browse a webpage, you can use the rotor setting to
hear all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from one element to
another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
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