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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behavior
- Make VoiceOver ignore the next key press
- Learn or mute VoiceOver sound effects
- Hear hints and information
- Use positional audio
- Interact with areas and groups
- Hear progress or status changes
- Select and deselect items
- Drag and drop items
- Use cursor tracking
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- Use VoiceOver Utility
- Change voice settings
- Customize verbosity
- Customize punctuation
- Change how VoiceOver pronounces text and symbols
- Change what the VoiceOver rotor shows
- Create custom labels for UI elements
- Export, import, and reset VoiceOver preferences
- Use VoiceOver portable preferences
- Use VoiceOver activities
- Copyright
Use VoiceOver to navigate the desktop on Mac
The desktop shows icons for many items, such as folders, documents, or image files.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Move to the desktop: Press VO-Shift-D.
Move around items on the desktop: Press the arrow keys.
Quickly move to an item on the desktop: Type the first letter of the item. For example, if you have a file named “travel plans” on the desktop, type “T” to move to it.
Open an item selected on the desktop: Press Command-O. Folders open in a Finder window.
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