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
Use a braille display with VoiceOver on iPad
You can use a Bluetooth braille display to read VoiceOver output, and a braille display with input keys and other controls to control iPad when VoiceOver is turned on. For a list of supported braille displays, see the Apple Support article Braille displays supported by iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Connect a braille display
Turn on the braille display.
On iPad, go to Settings
> Bluetooth, turn on Bluetooth, then choose the display.On iPad, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille, then choose the display.
Adjust the braille settings
On iPad, go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille.Do any of the following:
Choose contracted, uncontracted eight-dot, or uncontracted six-dot braille input or output
Turn on the status cell and choose its location
Turn on Nemeth code for mathematical equations
Display the onscreen keyboard
Choose to have the page turned automatically when panning
Change the braille translation from Unified English
Change the alert display duration
Output closed captions in braille during media playback
On iPad, go to Settings
> General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Verbosity.Choose Braille or Speech and Braille.
For information about common braille commands for VoiceOver navigation, and for information specific to certain displays, see the Apple Support article Common braille commands for VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.