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User Guide
Settings
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Set the punctuation verbosity for the BlackBerry Screen Reader.
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Turn on BlackBerry Screen Reader sounds to provide audio cues for the events happening on your screen.
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Configure the settings for closed captions.
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Gestures to select an item, turn on or turn off a feature, select an item from a list or change text verbosity are no longer
available from Quick Tasks mode in the BlackBerry Screen Reader.
BlackBerry Screen Reader
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The BlackBerry Screen Reader automatically reads email, SMS messages, webpages and dialog boxes.
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The BlackBerry Screen Reader voice has a higher pitch for inserted or auto-corrected text, and a lower pitch for deleted
text.
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Text-to-speech (TTS) pronunciation has been improved.
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If you stop the BlackBerry Screen Reader while it is reading (for example, to answer a call), the BlackBerry Screen
Reader starts reading from the location where it stopped, rather than starting again at the top of the page.
BlackBerry Screen Reader
The BlackBerry Screen Reader is an assistive technology that lets users with vision impairment interact with their
BlackBerry 10 device using speech output. The BlackBerry Screen Reader uses text-to-speech (TTS) to read screen
content, such as documents, email messages, text messages (SMS), titles and properties of media files and other text-
based information. The BlackBerry Screen Reader also provides navigation cues by reading screen layout information,
such as menu titles, page numbers and links.
Turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader
The BlackBerry Screen Reader is a text-to-speech (TTS) feature on your BlackBerry device. The first time you turn on the
BlackBerry Screen Reader, the Help will open automatically for you to learn about the gestures you can use.
1.
To turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader, triple-press the Power/Lock key.
2.
To turn off the BlackBerry Screen Reader, triple-press the Power/Lock key again.
Tip: You can set your device to turn on only from the device settings. Turn off the Enable using triple tap option in the
BlackBerry Screen Reader section of the device settings after you complete the initial device setup.
Accessibility
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