Blackberry Z10 User Manual page 186

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• You can now set the display using the Reverse Contrast feature.
• There is now a preview pane for Closed Captions settings.
BlackBerry Screen Reader
• You can rewind the BlackBerry Screen Reader to read up to the last ten spoken items.
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 or MMS), 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 app automatically opens to help you 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 only turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader from the device settings. If you don't intend to
use this feature, you can turn off the Enable using triple tap option after you complete the initial device setup in Settings >
Accessibility > Screen Reader.
Turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader using device settings
The first time you turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader, the Help app automatically opens to help you learn about the
gestures you can use.
Tip:
If you don't want to see a verification message each time you turn on the BlackBerry Screen Reader from the device
settings, turn off the Confirmation Message option in the BlackBerry Screen Reader section of the device settings.
1. On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2.
Tap Settings > Accessibility > Screen Reader.
3. Turn on the Screen Reader switch.
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