Command atlas: gestures, keyboard and voice
Touch gestures on iPhone and Android, mobile and desktop screen readers, and voice commands on four systems. Each card shows the command with an animation and describes what it does: use it to prepare a test session or to look up a command during the test.
Atlas sections
Choose the type of interaction to test. Each section has animated cards and comparison tables for its area.
Gestures without a screen reader
Tap, swipe, pinch and the system gestures for going Home, switching apps and going back.
Gestures with VoiceOver or TalkBack
VoiceOver gestures on iPhone and TalkBack gestures on Android, with a comparison of the two.
Keyboard with a screen reader
NVDA, JAWS, Narrator, Orca and VoiceOver for Mac: modifiers, reading, navigation and tables.
Control your device by voice
The phrases for controlling iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android by voice.
Sources and limits
The descriptions are rewritten from the official guides; the animations are original.
- Apple iPhone guide: VoiceOver gestures (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Google guide: TalkBack gestures (external website, opens in a new tab)
- NV Access guide: NVDA commands (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Freedom Scientific guide: JAWS keystrokes (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft guide: Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures (external website, opens in a new tab)
- GNOME guide: Orca commands (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Apple guide: VoiceOver commands on Mac (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Apple guide: Voice Control on iPhone (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Apple guide: Voice Control commands on Mac (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Microsoft guide: voice access commands on Windows (external website, opens in a new tab)
- Google guide: Voice Access commands on Android (external website, opens in a new tab)
Commands can change with the system version, the screen reader version and the manufacturer. Before a test or an audit, try them on the device: on iPhone with VoiceOver Practice, on Android with the TalkBack tutorial (four-finger tap).