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a single tap usually works (or press-and-hold) and triple-tap when you’d
ordinarily double-tap.
As you’ll discover, mastering Narrator takes a lot of time and patience; it’s
something like a complete operating system in itself. You’d be wise to take
the QuickStart tutorial.
To see the master cheat sheet of touch gestures in Narrator (and to hear it
read to you), tap three times with four fingers against the screen. You’ll
learn essential tips like these:
To do this… …Use this touch command
Stop Narrator from reading Tap once with two fingers
Read current window Swipe up with three fingers
Click Double-tap
Double-click Triple-tap
Start dragging Tap with three fingers
Show/hide Narrator window Tap with four fingers
Move to previous/next item Flick left/right with one finger
Scroll Swipe any direction with two fingers
Tab forward and backward Swipe left/right with three fingers
If you don’t have a touchscreen, press Caps Lock+1 to view the master list
of commands.
On-Screen Keyboard
In the new world of touchscreen tablets, not everyone has a physical
keyboard. Windows 10 offers this onscreen version (in your Windows Ease
of Access folder), which is described on “The Onscreen Keyboard”.
Windows Speech Recognition
Windows offers a somewhat accurate speech-recognition feature, in your
Windows Ease of Access folder. You can read all about it in a free appendix
