Any way to navigate in Safari by heading level with voice-over

By Ipadman, 21 February, 2019

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iOS and iPadOS

I regularly use the Google website and navigate by heading, but just yesterday something strange happened.
Voice-over Started giving me lots of new information, like “search results“ and “ web results”
I determined, though I might be wrong, that this was because voice-over was now reading all heading levels where as previously it had only been reading out level three headings when I navigated.
I’m not sure what I’ve done to change it, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to change it back so that it only reads level three headings again.

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By Piotr Machacz on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 23:24

The change you experienced is actually to do with the Google site, not anything you did to VoiceOver. To answer your question, on a keyboard or braille display, you can do it just like on a computer. Turn on quicknav with a Q-chord or pressing left and right arrows together, than type the number 1 through 6 to go forward and add a shift to go backward. On the touch screen there is no way to navigate by specific heading levels that I'm aware of.

By dvdmth on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 23:24

You can navigate by heading level using braille screen input. Enter a number from 1 through 6, making sure to include the dots 3-4-5-6 prefix, then swipe up or down on the touch screen to navigate by the level you chose. This technique works for other types of navigation, such as entering an L and swiping to navigate by links.