Navigating iOS: Mastering VoiceOver Basics with VO Starter

<p>In this episode, Ida Grace demonstrates VO Starter, an iOS app specifically designed to assist new blind and visually impaired users in learning how to navigate their devices using Apple’s built-in screen reader, VoiceOver. The app offers step-by-step guidance, teaching basic VoiceOver gestures and simplifying the learning process. </p><p>VO Starter on the App&nbsp;Store<br><a href="https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vo-starter/id6455786629">https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vo-starter/id6455786629</a></p><p>transcription:<br> Disclaimer: This transcript is generated by AIKO, an automated transcription service. It is not edited or formatted, and it may not accurately capture the speakers’ names, voices, or content. </p><p>And good afternoon AppleViz.</p><p>This is Ida and it is currently 2 o' 5 p.m.</p><p>Central Time and I am here with a podcast tutorial on VoStarter.</p><p>This app is an app that teaches voiceover for iOS users.</p><p>It does assume some basic knowledge of voiceover, I've noticed.</p><p>The first couple lessons start out pretty simple, but then it quickly jumps into more advanced things.</p><p>So I will be demonstrating a few of the lessons and making some comments as I go.</p><p>So here we go, open VoStarter.</p><p>Ok. Welcome to VoStarter for iOS.</p><p>After completion of these tutorials, you will have been introduced to nearly all of the concepts associated with using voiceover on your iOS device.</p><p>To get started, simply double tap the screen with one finger.</p><p>This will begin the first lesson.</p><p>Good luck on your journey.</p><p>Ok that is the introduction.</p><p>You can also, if you don't want voiceover to read it to you, you can swipe over to the continue, I mean the listen button, sorry.</p><p>Welcome to Arctic to Gifts.</p><p>Good luck toolbar.</p><p>Listen.</p><p>Button.</p><p>Yeah this toolbar has a menu button which is where you go to select a lesson if you've completed this tutorial or if you want to skip ahead a little bit and later in the tutorial there is also a continue button that appears on this menu.</p><p>But for now, if we double tap on listen.</p><p>Welcome to VoStarter for iOS.</p><p>After completion of these tutorials, you will have been introduced to nearly all of the concepts associated with using voiceover on your iOS device.</p><p>To get started, simply double tap the screen with one finger.</p><p>This will begin the first lesson.</p><p>Good luck on your journey.</p><p>Ok here's what I don't like about this though.</p><p>Even when you're on the listen button and it says simply double tap the screen with one finger, well if I do that now from the listen button, it's not going to continue.</p><p>After completion of these tutorials, you will be introduced to nearly all of the concepts associated with using voiceover on your iOS device.</p><p>To get started, simply double tap the screen with one finger.</p><p>But not there.</p><p>This will begin the first lesson.</p><p>Good luck on your journey.</p><p>So what you have to do is swipe back to the left.</p><p>Now there's a lesson later in this tutorial on flicking which is also swiping but I'm sure most of you AppleVis users already know about swiping and double tapping.</p><p>So we're going to flick back to the left.</p><p>Menu.</p><p>Good luck on your journey.</p><p>Ok. Now, one thing I want to let you know is that because the continue button…</p>