The apps

What TurnOver adds in each app it reads. To give an app to TurnOver or back to VoiceOver: Command Control Comma, T.

Mail

Up and Down move through the messages; Home and End go to the first and last. The message is read as a document. Tab goes from the list to the message, Shift Tab to the mailboxes. Command Shift D sends, and TurnOver says "sent".

Messages and WhatsApp

The keyboard stays in the message box. Shift Tab goes up to the messages, newest first; Up and Down move; the shortcut menu (VO Shift M) lists a message's actions; Escape goes back to the box. Command Control 1 to 9 read the latest messages from anywhere, 1 the newest. New messages are read as they arrive.

Music, Podcasts and TV

Up and Down move through the page, shelf by shelf; Left and Right jump between shelves; Return plays; Space pauses and says which.

The App Store

Up and Down move through every app and button; Left and Right between shelves. Return opens an app's page; Space presses its own button (Get, Open, Update). Command F searches.

Microsoft Word and Excel

Word reads as you move, says the page as you reach it, and has VoiceOver's keys for headings, tracked changes and spelling errors (VO Command H, R, E). Tables say each cell with its headings. In Excel, cells are read as you move.

Calendar (experimental)

Read as a diary, in day, week and month view: Left and Right a day at a time, with its number of events; Up and Down through that day's events, the time first; Option Up and Down a week at a time; Return opens an event. Command T goes to today.

Pages, Numbers and Keynote (experimental)

place, the page said as you reach it.

row's heading ("Sales, 1521"); VO Command T and Shift T go between tables.

presentation plays, each slide is read as you move (macOS asks once whether TurnOver may control Keynote).

Terminal

New output is read as it arrives; your own typing isn't read twice. TurnOver Up and Down review earlier lines.

Steam

Steam's Big Picture is read as you move, once you turn it on: the TurnOver menu, Games, Read Steam's Big Picture. It's off to begin with because reading it makes Steam open a debugging port on your Mac while Steam runs, which other programs on the same Mac could use too; turning it off, or uninstalling TurnOver, removes that again. Games that support it speak through TurnOver without any of this.

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