Setting Up VoiceOver

Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.

Click Universal Access.

Click On to enable VoiceOver and click Open VoiceOver Utility to configure VoiceOver settings.

Click the Display tab to control which VoiceOver features are used.

INTRODUCTION With VoiceOver, you can use the keyboard and Mac speech features to control your computer. Standard keyboard commands are augmented by special commands to enable you to start up, switch, and control programs and to move around your hard drive.

HINT More or Less The Display settings determine how evident VoiceOver is as you use your Mac. For example, you can turn on the VoiceOver cursor to hear spoken descriptions of the objects and dialog boxes under your cursor, or you can turn off the cursor to hide this feature.

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Click the Verbosity tab to control how much VoiceOver talks.

Click the Navigation tab to control how VoiceOver moves around your screen.

Click the Voices tab to change the voice VoiceOver uses.

Click the Pronunciation tab to add terms you want VoiceOver to speak a particular way.