iPad User Guide
- iPad User Guide
- What’s new in iPadOS
- Supported models
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- Wake and unlock
- Adjust the volume
- Change or turn off sounds
- Access features from the Lock screen
- Open apps on the Home screen
- Take a screenshot or screen recording
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Change the wallpaper
- Zoom an app to fill the screen
- Drag and drop
- Search with iPad
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Perform quick actions
- Use and customize Control Center
- View and organize Today View
- Charge and monitor the battery
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Travel with iPad
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- View photos and videos
- Edit photos and videos
- Edit Live Photos
- Edit Portrait mode photos
- Organize photos in albums
- Search in Photos
- Share photos and videos
- View Memories
- Find people in Photos
- Browse photos by location
- Use iCloud Photos
- Share photos with iCloud Shared Albums
- Use My Photo Stream
- Import photos and videos
- Print photos
- Shortcuts
- Stocks
- Tips
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- Get started with accessibility features
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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
- Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
- Type onscreen braille using VoiceOver
- Use a braille display
- Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
- Use VoiceOver in apps
- Zoom
- Magnifier
- Display & Text Size
- Motion
- Spoken Content
- Audio Descriptions
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Get information about your iPad
- View or change cellular settings
- Find more resources for 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 > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille, then choose the display.
Adjust the braille settings
On iPad, go to Settings
> Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille.Do any of the following:
Choose contracted, uncontracted eight-dot, or uncontracted six-dot braille input or output
Add Braille tables that appear in the Braille Table rotor
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
Adjust the key debounce duration (the timing used between typing and activating commands)
Output closed captions in braille during media playback
On iPad, go to Settings
> 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.