By Matthew Bullis
At this writing, there are three ways you can learn about how to use VoiceOver on the I device of your choice. Apple has a built-in practice gesture area, where you can make a gesture and find out what it’s supposed to do. This also works if you’ve paired a braille display and need to know what combinations of keys do. Then came VOStarter at the end of 2012. This app presented a menu of choices where you could either progress through the tutorial, learning about different gestures, or practice the ones you’re not too sure of. Now LookTel, who released a great money identifier and a bar code scanner/item identifier, releases VOTutorial, which is a screen by screen test with long descriptions of how to perform needed gestures. It even includes two games for gesture practice, basketball and crack the safe. With all of these app choices, and with only one of them, VOStarter, costing a dollar, you’d do well to use all three applications. Each one has something that none of the others do. Apple’s practice screen lets you find out a gesture the other way round, after you make it, and the games are enjoyable for more than one play inside of VOTutorial, and VOStarter has screens on more advanced gestures that VOTutorial doesn’t cover. With all three applications, there are multiple ways to absorb the material and the learning curve of VoiceOver itself.
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