Use a screen reader with notifications in OneNote for iOS

1/8/2020

Use OneNote for iOS with VoiceOver, the built-in iOS screen reader, to receive notifications on any additions and changes that others make to your shared notebooks. Notifications can help you keep up with the changes as they happen.

Notes: 

• New Office 365 features are released gradually to Office 365 subscribers, so your app might not have these features yet. To learn how you can get new features faster, join the Office Insider program.
• This topic assumes that you are using the built-in iOS screen reader, VoiceOver. To learn more about using VoiceOver, visit Apple accessibility.
• This topic assumes that you are using an iPhone. Some navigation and gestures might be different for an iPad.
• Notifications are currently only available for notebooks stored on OneDrive.

In this topic

• Notification settings
• Using notifications

Notification settings

You can select which type of notifications you want to receive when a shared notebook has been changed by another user. In the OneNote for iOS notification settings, you can select to receive a banner, a badge, or both.

Select the type of notifications you want to receive

A banner notification is a short message that is displayed on the phone screen when the notification arrives, and it disappears automatically after a few seconds. VoiceOver reads the banner contents when the banner pops up.

A badge notification is a number on a small red dot displayed on the top-right corner of the app icon on the phone home screen. VoiceOver announces the badge as you navigate to the app on the home screen, for example: "OneNote, two new items."

1. In OneNote, swipe right until VoiceOver announces: "Notifications, button." Double-tap the screen to select the button.
2. The Notifications view opens. Swipe right until you hear VoiceOver announce: "Notification Settings, button." Double-tap the screen to select the button.
3. The Notification Settings view opens. Keep swiping right until you hear VoiceOver announce: "Banner Notifications." To switch banner notifications on or off, double-tap the screen.
4. Swipe right to move to badge notifications. VoiceOver announces: "Badge App Icon." Double-tap the screen to switch it on or off.
5. To close the Notification Settings view, swipe left until VoiceOver announces "Close, button," and double-tap the screen.
6. To close the Notifications view, double-tap the screen.

Tip: You can also draw a Z-shape with two fingers to close a view.

Using notifications

In the OneNote for iOS app, you can read the received notifications and switch the notifications on or off.

Switch notifications on or off

1. In OneNote, swipe right until VoiceOver announces: "Notifications, button." Double-tap the screen to select the button.
2. The Notifications view opens. Swipe right until you hear VoiceOver announce: "Notification Settings, button." Double-tap the screen to select the button.
3. The Notification Settings view opens. Keep swiping right until you hear VoiceOver announce the name of the notebook you want to change the notification settings for.
4. Double-tap the screen to switch the notifications on or off. VoiceOver announces the current state as you tap.
5. To close the Notification Settings view, swipe left until VoiceOver announces "Close, button," and double-tap the screen.
6. To close the Notifications view, double-tap the screen.

Read notifications

1. If there are new notifications when you open OneNote, a badge appears on the Notifications button in the app. To navigate to the button, swipe right until VoiceOver announces the button, for example: "Notifications, button. One unviewed notifications." Double-tap the screen to select the button.
2. Swipe right until you hear VoiceOver read the notification.
3. To go to another notification, swipe right.
4. To go to the updated notebook, double-tap the screen when on a notification.

Source: Microsoft