Appendix A Accessibility 149
Create your own gesture. You can add your own favorite gestures to the control menu (for
example, tap and hold or two-nger rotation). Tap the menu button, tap Favorites, then tap an
empty gesture placeholder. Or go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch > Create
New Gesture.
Example 1: To create the rotation gesture, go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Create New Gesture. On the gesture recording screen that prompts you to
touch to create a gesture, rotate two ngers on the iPod touch screen around a point between
them. (You can do this with a single nger or stylus—just create each arc separately, one after
the other.) If it doesn’t turn out quite right, tap Cancel, then try again. When it looks right, tap
Save, then give the gesture a name—maybe “Rotate 90.” Then, to rotate the view in Maps, for
example, open Maps, tap the AssistiveTouch menu button, and choose Rotate 90 from Favorites.
When the blue circles representing the starting nger positions appear, drag them to the point
around which you want to rotate the map, then release. You might want to create several
gestures with dierent degrees of rotation.
Example 2: Let’s create the touch-and-hold gesture that you use to start rearranging icons on
your Home screen. This time, on the gesture recording screen, hold down your nger in one spot
until the recording progress bar reaches halfway, then lift your nger. Be careful not to move
your nger while recording, or the gesture will be recorded as a drag. Tap Save, then name the
gesture. To use the gesture, tap the AssistiveTouch menu button, then choose your gesture from
Favorites. When the blue circle representing your touch appears, drag it over a Home screen icon
and release.
If you record a sequence of taps or drags, they’re all played back at the same time. For example,
using one nger or a stylus to record four separate, sequential taps at four locations on the
screen creates a simultaneous four-nger tap.
Exit a menu without performing a gesture. Tap anywhere outside the menu. To return to the
previous menu, tap the arrow in the middle of the menu.
Move the menu button. Drag it anywhere along the edge of the screen.
Adjust your accessory tracking speed. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Touch speed.
Hide the menu button (with an accessory attached). Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Always Show Menu.
Voice Control
Voice Control lets you control iPod touch music playback using voice commands. See Voice
Control on page 28.
Accessibility in OS X
Take advantage of the accessibility features in OS X when you use iTunes to sync with iPod touch.
In the Finder, choose Help > Help Center (or Help > Mac Help in OS X Yosemite), then search
for “accessibility.”
For more information about iPod touch and OS X accessibility features, go to
www.apple.com/accessibility/.
