In Accessibility>Touch>AssistiveTouch>Custom Gestures you can draw your own gestures. The area inside the create new gesture is not necessarily inaccessible per se, you just have to memorise where is the save button on the top right.
I have 2 custom-created gestures, swipe right then left, and swipe left and then swipe right. In the Custom Gestures settings inside of Assistive Touch, these 2 gestures are dimmed and not able to be clicked.
Is it possible to use these gestures I have created with VoiceOver commands? I can't find them anywhere in VoiceOver>Commands>Touch Gestures.
I could be tripping, but I'm sure I saw a thread talking about this on AppleVis some time ago. I'm searching custom gestures but all I see is threads about remapping the standard VO gestures. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
By Rasgueo, 13 December, 2023
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iOS and iPadOS
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Any thoughts?
No
I'm afraid you are misunderstanding the purpose of this function. The assistive touch will perform the already existing and system defined gestures for you when selected by a double tap (if VO is on) from a menu that will appear on-screen when the function is turned on. It is for people who have difficulty making some of the gestures with their fingers.
It is my understanding that custom gestures will allow for a series of existing and defined gestures to be recorded then performed by the assistive touch on the menu, as described. It is not for creating new and undefined gestures.
Feature Request
If only we had the freedom to create our own gestures...
Yes, it can be done, if you code
Here's the article:
https://reintech.io/blog/creating-custom-gestures-touch-interactions-ios-apps
It's come to this
I'm an artist, not a coder. I assume it uses some other part of the brain.
Assistive Touch is a good feature to tuck away in the back of your mind for when you damage your screen hand with something like a car door, or lose dexterity from a lifetime of making gestures on touch screens and typing out posts on forums.