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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
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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
Use VoiceOver positional audio on Mac
If you have stereo headphones or dual speakers, you can use positional audio to hear audio cues (or sound effects) about an item’s location on the screen.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier.
Positional audio is enabled by default.
To turn it off, open VoiceOver Utility (press VO-F8 when VoiceOver is on), click the Sound category, then select “Enable positional audio.”
If you chose to play stereo audio as mono audio in Accessibility preferences, you can’t hear positional audio using VoiceOver.
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