Read web pages or use a screen reader

On your iPhone or iPad, you can get help from your Google Assistant with a screen reader or other accessibility features, like increased text size.

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Turn on the screen reader

To turn on the screen reader, follow the VoiceOver screen reader steps on Apple's site.

Use the screen reader

Talk to your Google Assistant

1. On your iPhone or iPad, double-tap the Google Assistant app .
2. Double-tap your screen with two fingers.
3. After you hear a beep, ask a question or say a command.

Navigate and listen

• Scroll up or down your Google Assistant conversation: Swipe with three fingers.
• Select an item to hear: Tap the item.
• Stop or resume speaking: Tap with two fingers.

Learn more ways to navigate.

Use large text or other accessibility features

Find out about other accessibility features that you can turn on.

Make your smart display or Smart Clock more accessible

You can customise your smart display or Smart Clock with accessibility settings.

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Change accessibility settings

Important: Make sure that your phone or tablet is connected to the same Wi-Fi network as your device.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. At the bottom, tap Home .
3. Touch and hold your device.
4. At the top right, tap Device settings Accessibility.
5. Choose which settings you want to turn on or off.

Learn what accessibility settings do

Visual options

• Colour correction: Your screen will change text and display settings.
• Colour inversion: Your screen colours will be reversed. For example, dark text on a white screen becomes white text on a dark screen.
• Magnify screen: You can triple-tap your screen to zoom in and make everything bigger.
  • Move across the screen by dragging two or more fingers.
  • Change the zoom level by pinching your fingers together or spreading them apart.
  • Magnify the screen temporarily by triple-tapping and holding. To stop, lift your finger.
• Closed captioning: You can find captions for the Google Assistant's voice or video content. You can change the font type, size and colour.
  Tip: Video captions only work with videos that have closed captioning.
• High-contrast text: Your text colour will change to black or white, depending on the original text colour.
  Tip: High-contrast text is an experimental feature, so it might not work correctly everywhere on your device.

Audio options

• Play start sound: You can hear a sound when your device hears "OK Google" or "Hey Google".
• Play end sound: You can hear a sound when your device has finished listening to your request.
• Audio descriptions: You can hear a description of what's happening in a video.
  Tip: This works with videos that provide audio description.
• Screen reader: Your device will provide speech feedback when you tap the screen.
  Tip: The screen reader changes how your touchscreen and gestures work.

Use TalkBack gestures

When you turn on the screen reader, you can use TalkBack gestures to navigate the screen and understand what's on it.

Learn what's on the screen

• Explore items on the screen: Move one finger along the screen. The item under your finger will be highlighted and read.
• Open a selected item: Double-tap with one finger.
• Select the next item and read it: Swipe from left to right with one finger.
• Select the previous item and read it: Swipe right to left with one finger.
• Open Quick Settings: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen with two fingers.
• Find media controls: Tap the screen with two fingers.
• Return to home screen: From the left half of the screen, swipe left with two fingers, or say "Hey Google, go to home".
• Return to ambient screen: To find the screen saver, from the left edge of the screen, swipe right with two fingers.

Mute your devices

• Silence TalkBack speech: Tap the screen with one finger.
• Silence Google Assistant speech: Tap the screen with two fingers.

Change navigation gestures

You can change how you explore the screen. By default, TalkBack navigates by items on the screen. You can change it so it uses character, word, line, paragraph, heading, link or control instead.

1. To choose how you want to navigate, swipe up or down.
2. To navigate, swipe left and right.
3. To use the default navigation, swipe up or down.
4. Select Default.

Change TalkBack settings

1. Swipe down and then right in a single gesture.
2. Place a finger on "TalkBack settings". You can also swipe left or right on it.
3. To open an item, double-tap it.
4. To exit, swipe down and then left in a single gesture.