VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behaviour
- 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
- Customise verbosity
- Customise 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
NumPad, Commanders category, VoiceOver Utility on Mac
Use the NumPad pane of the Commanders category in VoiceOver Utility to turn on the NumPad Commander and assign VoiceOver commands to numeric keypad keys.
To open VoiceOver Utility, press Command-F5 to turn VoiceOver on, then press VO-Fn-F8.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Option | Description |
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Enable NumPad Commander | Turn the NumPad Commander on or off. When the NumPad Commander is on, you can’t use Mouse Keys, an accessibility feature in macOS. |
Modifier pop-up menu | Choose a modifier key to increase the number of numeric keys you can assign VoiceOver commands to. |
Numpad Key | Numeric keypad keys to which VoiceOver commands can be assigned. |
Command | Commands assigned to numeric keypad keys. To assign a different command to a key, click the command field to display pop-up menus for the different types of commands, then choose a command. |
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