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[email protected] iPad VoiceOver (VO) Controller This Controller allows control over those apps that are "VoiceOver-Compliant." This is not all apps! In fact, there are probably only several hundred apps that are VO-compliant. Most are not. Fortunately, and most importantly, most of Apple's are: Camera, Photos, Music, Messages, Notes, Mail, iBooks and several others. "VoiceOver" is a technology that Apple created for Macs, then its i-devices, for blind people to be able to hear what's under their finger. To find out if an app is VO-compatible, and also, to make my VO Controller work with your i-device: 1) Settings; 2) General; 3) Accessibility (scroll down to it); 4) VoiceOver; 5) Turn it on and wait and you will hear it. Now move your finger around slowly and things under your finger will highlight and speak. To activate the selected item, double-tap anywhere on the screen (remember that!). To scroll with VO, use 3 fingers. And that's how VO is supposed to work. Now press your Home button, and launch one of your desired apps, and move your finger around. Do things get highlighted and spoken? If so, then you're good to go! If not, you can write to the developer and beg ;-) But Apple soon discoverd that blind people don't use a mouse or their finger; they use a keyboard with keyboard "shortcuts," that is combinations of keys to navigate and hear their screen.