TRANSCRIPT: iOS Accessibility - VoiceOver Dictation & Text Editing

[Speaker]
"I now have my Notes app open, just on an empty note, and let's explore text entry. The easiest way, and the way a lot of people use, is dictation. So now that my Notes app is open, I now have the keyboard showing at the bottom of the screen. So if I explore the screen now, I'm going to find the keyboard."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Cap Q. Cap W. Cap E."

[Speaker]
"Okay, so it's ready for me to type. And right down near the bottom right is your dictate button. You can also start dictation when you've got VoiceOver on just by doing a two-finger double tap anywhere on the screen. But I'll find the dictate button and let's see how this goes."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Return. Dictate."

[Speaker (Dictating)]
"Hi, I'm dictating a message and seeing if you make any mistakes, which hopefully, you won't."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Inserted 'Hi, I'm dictating a message and seeing if you make any mistakes, which hopefully you won't.'"

[Speaker]
"So you heard the little sound when it started listening, and then the lower sound when I stopped it, and it also read out what it's now inserted. Now if I want to check that it's done all of that right, or let's say I want to add some punctuation, we're going to go back to our rotor to navigate through what we've written to make sure it's okay. I cannot stress enough how important it is to learn this, because I'm sure we've all read posts or messages that have been dictated and the mistakes have been made, and a lot of people just don't know how to go back and correct them. So we're going to use our rotor."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Words."

[Speaker]
"So if I now flick up with one finger, I'm going to navigate backwards word by word."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"One closing single quotation mark T."
"U."
"Hopefully."
"Which."
"Mistakes, comma."
"Any."
"Make."
"You."
"If."
"Seeing."
"And."
"Message."

[Speaker]
"So I'm hearing what I've written. I wanted to check that there was a comma in the right place, and there was. But maybe let's say you didn't want it to be there..."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Message."
"And."
"Seeing."
"If."
"You."
"Make."
"Any."
"Mistakes, comma."

[Speaker]
"So now I've scrolled forward through each word until I've got to 'mistakes, comma', which it has read for me. So if I want to delete that comma, I can delete that now with my delete button."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Delete."
"Comma."

[Speaker]
"And it's gone. And remember, you don't only have to listen to it word by word or character by character via the rotor. All you have to do is move your finger up above the keyboard, and you'll be able to find the text area where you're editing your text so you can listen to the whole thing."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Note. Text field is editing. Hi, I'm dictating a message and seeing if you make any mistakes which hopefully you won't. Character mode. Insertion point at end."

[Speaker]
"Notice VoiceOver has said 'insertion point at end', which usefully tells you if you want to type some more, you are at the end of your document or your message. If you double-tap that text area again, it will take you to the start."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Insertion point at start."

[Speaker]
"And I'll double-tap again to go back to the end so I can do some more."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Insertion point at end."