VoiceOver Tutorial

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! From awkward default settings to voice tweaks worthy of a fashion show, this episode is your backstage pass to customizing VoiceOver like never before. Join Amelia, Jerry, and the ever-dramatic Deiter as they explore how to personalize gestures, sounds, and speech settings—minus the industrial concrete auger. Whether you’re new to iPhone accessibility o...

VoiceOver Tutorial: VOT 17 – Voices Beyond the Page: The BARD Mobile Experience Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Hope, Amelia, Junie, and a surprise guest from Chatbot Chronicles (hello, VGER) explore the BARD Mobile app and the powerful story behind it. From a historic letter by Helen Keller to the app that now puts thousands of audiobooks at your fingertips, this episode is a celebra...

VoiceOver Tutorial 16: 1-Finger Triple Tap – The Forgotten Soldier Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Junie, Deiter, and Hope return to uncover one of the most underappreciated yet powerful gestures in the VoiceOver arsenal: the 1-finger triple tap. Whether you’ve never used it or just assumed it was a glitch in your tapping rhythm, this “forgotten soldier” is here to serve. From Home Sc...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Amelia, Deiter, and Hope guide you through the ins, outs, and in-betweens of the Mail app using VoiceOver. From inbox chaos to organized communication, this episode covers everything you need to read, reply, compose, and manage your email—without ever viewing the screen. May 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to navigate the three levels of the Mai...

There is no instructional material in this lesson as Amelia and the chatbots are assigned to tidy up the Office of Outdated Equipment. This marks the start of The Chatbot Chronicles and the crew head off for their own adventures. Those episodes can be found on YouTube and most podcast apps, or use this RSS feed: https://pinecast.com/feed/voiceover-tutorial   February 2025, iOS 18             What...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! After a few high jinks, Junie and Brian show how to use the Phone and Messages apps using VoiceOver to effectively communicate. February 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to navigate the Phone app using VoiceOver, including tabs like Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keypad, and Voicemail. • How to read, compose, and send text messages efficiently in...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Archer introduces the App Store, your one-stop shop for new apps. He also covers some ways to make getting apps easier and other areas of interest in this app. February 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to navigate the five main tabs of the App Store—including Today, Games, Apps, Arcade, and Search—with VoiceOver. • How to install new apps using F...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Amelia and Ellie cover the basics for TouchID and FaceID, identity security features for the iPhone, and then Brian does walk throughs for each feature. January 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to set up and use Touch ID or Face ID with VoiceOver to unlock your device, approve purchases, log in to apps, and autofill passwords like a total tech ni...

Amelia, David and Deiter hang out in the break room and talk about Glide, a new fully autonomous mobility guide coming in the fall of 2025. Ellie stops by to hang out too. There is no lesson material in this episode. January 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to embrace the fine art of doing absolutely nothing productive for one glorious episode. • That sometimes the best ideas bubble up betw...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Brian lets the chat bots handle lesson 9, which covers standard iPhone settings and the Home Screen. This is covered from the perspective of the VoiceOver user. January 2025, iOS 18     What You’ll Learn: • How to navigate and customize key iPhone settings like Apple ID, iCloud, Battery, and General settings using VoiceOver. • How to adjust important ac...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Deiter joins the antics, Amelia debuts a new song and the group covers using the share sheet on the iPhone and the Home Screen from a VoiceOver perspective. January 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to use the Share Sheet to create bookmarks, send items between apps, and add shortcuts to your Home Screen. • How to customize the Share Sheet by addi...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Amelia and Brian team up to show some tips and techniques for navigating web pages using VoiceOver. They also introduce Safari and give a brief tour of this browser. January 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How Safari is organized and how to use key features like the Address Bar, Toolbar, and Bookmarks button with VoiceOver. • How to use the rotor to...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Amelia takes us through VoiceOver Settings in part 6 of our tutorial and also covers the Accessibility Shortcut, used for quickly toggling on or off accessibility features. January 2025, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to customize VoiceOver commands and gestures—including creating your own or reassigning ones you don’t use often. • How to set up and...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! In Part 5 of our tutorial, we take a look at Handwriting Mode, a method of using our finger as a stylus to enter letters, numbers and punctuation directly on the screen. This is an alternative method for inputting text rather than interacting with the on-screen keyboard. January 2025, iOS 18     What You’ll Learn: 🎯 What You'll Learn • How to activate...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! Part 4 of our VoiceOver Tutorial focuses on selecting text using the rotor gesture and editing text using several techniques. December 2024, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • Using the rotor to move the insertion point in a text field. • Selecting text in different increments. • Using rotor actions to edit or copy text.   Pro Tips Shared: • You can replace...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! In part 3 of our continuing VoiceOver tutorial, we cover the on-screen keyboard, the different ways of interacting with that keyboard and using dictation to transcribe our words rather than using the on-screen keyboard. December 2024, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to switch between the letter, numbers, and symbols keyboards using VoiceOver on an iPh...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! In part 2 of our VoiceOver series, we begin to use the rotor gesture for navigation and settings. We also demonstrate how to configure the rotor to suit your needs. December 2024, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • How to use the rotor gesture by twisting two fingers on the screen to cycle through VoiceOver’s available options. • How rotor settings like Head...

Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! In Lesson1, we cover some of the theory behind VoiceOver, which is also common to other screen readers, and also the basic finger gestures for controlling VoiceOver. December 2024, iOS 18   What You’ll Learn: • The fundamental core concepts of Focus and Activate. • Basic gestures for moving the focus of VoiceOver. • How to access Practice Mode to be abl...

VoiceOver Tutorial – Episode 0, Getting in Touch with VoiceOver Learn to master your iPhone using VoiceOver! In our opening lesson of the VOT, Brian and Archer discuss some introductory concepts for using VoiceOver, the built in screen reader for low and no vision users of the iPhone. We discuss the concept of using finger gestures to control VoiceOver and explore some topics related to transition...