Toggling VoiceOver by external keyboard

By BlindFish, 2 June, 2020

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello,
i am using an iPad Pro 2019 in combination with a Logitech Slim Folio Pro keyboard. I can easily turn VO on by triple pressing the home key on the Logitech keyboard. But it won't allow me to turn VO off the same way. This only works when triple pressing the on / off button on the iPad itself which is kinda annoying but would be ok if the corner protection of the logitech case wouldn't be one of a heavy duty outdoor let-a-tank-roll-over-me style which makes it hard to press three times in a row.
Is there a defined / alternative key command to turn VO on and off with an external keyboard like that?

Best,
Markus

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By Tyler on Friday, June 26, 2020 - 03:39

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

This isn't a keyboard command, but you can tell Siri to, "Turn on [or off] VoiceOver," and that will usually work.

If you are not in an environment where you can speak out loud to your iPad, you can turn on type to Siri by going to Settings > Accessibility > Siri and turning on Type to Siri.

HTH

By BlindFish on Friday, June 26, 2020 - 03:39

In reply to by Tyler

Thanks for your feedback. This seems to be a workaround worth trying out. However, there should be an easier way to achieve this. On some pages i found a dedicated shortcut for turning VO on and off but this doesn't seem to work on iPadOS.