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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher B. Fleizach, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Darren C. Minifie, Cupertino, CA (US);
Gregory F. Hughes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ryan N. Dour, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian M. Fisch, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael M. Pedersen, II, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric T. Seymour, San Jose, CA (US);
Devang K. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan S. Dixon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a screen reader accessibility mode, the device displays an application launcher screen including a plurality of application icons. A respective application icon corresponds to a respective application stored in the device. The device detects a sequence of one or more gestures on the touch-sensitive surface that correspond to one or more characters. A respective gesture that corresponds to a respective character is a single finger gesture that moves across the touch-sensitive surface along a respective path that corresponds to the respective character. The device determines whether the detected sequence of one or more gestures corresponds to a respective application icon of the plurality of application icons, and, in response to determining that the detected sequence of one or more gestures corresponds to the respective application icon, performs a predefined operation associated with the respective application icon.