Shows the settings menu with auto-scanning enabled and controlled via a microphone switch. The settings menu is self-voicing – scanning also provides a convenient means of presenting options to VI users – the convention with audio games seems to be toggling VoiceOver off – allowing time critical presses etc. Both scanning and speech can be forced ‘always on’ via the app’s entry in the main iOS Settings App. When speech is enabled control labels and values are still announced even when scanning is off.

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