iPad User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in iOS 12
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- Wake and unlock
- Learn basic gestures
- Learn gestures for models with Face ID
- Explore the Home screen and apps
- Change the settings
- Take a screenshot
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off the sounds
- Search for content
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Travel with iPad
- Set screen time, allowances, and limits
- Sync iPad using iTunes
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
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- Accessories included with iPad
- Connect Bluetooth devices
- Stream audio and video to other devices
- Connect to a TV, projector, or monitor
- Control audio on multiple devices
- Apple Pencil
- Use Smart Keyboard and Smart Keyboard Folio
- Use Magic Keyboard
- AirPrint
- Handoff
- Use Universal Clipboard
- Make and receive Wi-Fi calls
- Instant Hotspot
- Personal Hotspot
- Transfer files with iTunes
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Accessibility shortcuts
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- Turn on and practice VoiceOver
- Change your VoiceOver settings
- Learn VoiceOver gestures
- Operate iPad using VoiceOver gestures
- Control VoiceOver using the rotor
- Use the onscreen keyboard
- Write with your finger
- Control VoiceOver with Magic Keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Speak selection, speak screen, typing feedback
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display settings
- Face ID and attention
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- Guided Access
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Learn more about iPad software and service
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Class 1 Laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- ENERGY STAR compliance statement
- Copyright
Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver on iPad
If you turn on Braille Screen Input, you can use your fingers to enter six-dot braille or contracted braille directly on the iPad screen.
Enter braille on the screen
Enter braille with iPad lying flat in front of you (tabletop mode), or hold iPad with the screen facing away so your fingers curl back to tap the screen (screen away mode).
Set the rotor to Braille Screen Input.
If you don’t see Braille Screen Input in the rotor, go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then select it from the list.Enter braille characters by tapping the screen with one or several fingers at the same time.
You can also do any of the following:
Enter a space: Swipe right with one finger. (In screen away mode, swipe to your right.)
Delete the previous character: Swipe left with one finger.
Move to a new line: Swipe right with two fingers.
Cycle through spelling suggestions: Swipe up or down with one finger.
Enter a carriage return, or send a message (in Messages): Swipe up with three fingers.
Switch between six-dot braille and contracted braille: Swipe to the right with three fingers.
Turn braille contractions on or off: Swipe to the right with three fingers.
Translate immediately (when contractions are enabled): Swipe down with two fingers.
Switch to the next keyboard: Swipe up with two fingers.
To exit Braille Screen Input, do a two-finger scrub, or adjust the rotor to another setting.
Tip: To have iPad read dots aloud, tap and hold the dots, then when you hear the timer tones and announcement, release the dots.
Adjust entry dot positions
To move the entry dots to match your natural finger positions, double-tap all the dots.
Change Braille Screen Input settings
Go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > Braille Screen Input.Do any of the following:
Set six-dot or contracted Braille as the default.
Reverse dot positions for six-dot and eight-dot Braille.