TRANSCRIPT: iOS Accessibility - VoiceOver Typing Modes

[Speaker]
"While there are various ways of typing, VoiceOver has different, what it calls, typing modes. So I use the direct touch typing mode, which is only really appropriate if you're pretty confident. So if you touch type, you're pretty confident with the layout, and you can tap the screen pretty much where you know a letter is going to be, this mode is for you because you can tap out a message pretty much as fast as a sighted person would, and autocorrect does quite a good job if you do make mistakes. So I'll try and tap out something using the direct touch typing mode."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Cap H."
"E."
"T."
"Space."
"Hey."
"T."
"A."
"E."
"R."
"There."
"I."
"E."
"I'm."
"T."
"Y."
"P."
"R."
"E."
"G."
"Space."
"Typing."
"Q."
"U."
"I."
"C."
"K."
"E."
"U."
"Quickly."

[Speaker]
"So I wrote a 'U' at the end, but it automatically corrected to 'quickly', so that was quite nicely done. If you're not so comfortable doing it in this way, there are other options which you can find on the rotor when you're in a text box like this. So I'm going to use my rotor..."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Typing mode."
"Direct touch typing."

[Speaker]
"So now if I swipe down with one finger..."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Standard typing."

[Speaker]
"It's gone to standard typing. This is the one much like navigating on the screen. You can find a letter..."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Cap H."

[Speaker]
"...and then double-tap it to actually type it."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Cap H."

[Speaker]
"There's a slightly quicker way of doing this as well on this mode, where you can find the letter with one finger, keep your finger on there, and then tap anywhere on the screen with a second finger, which is slightly quicker than finding it then double-tapping."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"E."
"E."
"K."
"L."
"L."
"L."
"O."
"O."
"Space."
"Space."
"Hello."

[Speaker]
"And there's one more..."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"Touch typing."

[Speaker]
"...called touch typing. So this one is where you can move your finger around the screen, and it will read you each letter as you touch it, but it will type it when you release your finger. So you've got time until you actually release your finger before it will type."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"H."
"H."
"I."
"O."
"P."
"O."
"O."

[Speaker]
"So I just moved my finger around until I found the O, and then released my finger to actually type it."

[Screen Reader / VoiceOver Announcement]
"W."
"W."
"Space."
"How."
"A."
"A."
"R."
"R."
"E."
"E."
"Space."
"Are."
"Y."
"O."
"U."
"U."
"Space."
"You."

[Speaker]
"Also keep in mind there is a Braille Screen Input option within VoiceOver, so if you're a keen Braillist, that one might be for you."