Speak Screen: If you have a hard time reading the text on your iPad or iPhone, use Speak Screen to read your email, iMessages, web pages, and books. Turn on Speak Screen and swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers, or just tell Siri to Speak Screen and have all the content on the page read back to you.
Speak Screen will read everything on the display of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, including menu items, contacts, articles, web pages, notifications, messages, and much more.
Enabling Speak Screen
Before you can use the Speak Screen ability, you will need to enable it. This feature requires a modern version of iOS for iPhone or iPad:
- Open the ‘Settings’ app > General > “Accessibility”.
- Go to the “Speech” section and flip the switch for “Speak Screen” to the ON position.
- Optionally, adjust the speaking rate
- Exit out of Settings now that the feature is enabled
Using Speak Screen
There are a few ways to activate Speak Screen once it has been enabled.
- You can swipe down from the very top of the screen with two fingers. This immediately triggers the speech function which will read aloud whatever is on the display, and it also brings about the speech controls which allow you to skip, rewind, speed up, slow down, and pause the speech.
- Use the on-screen activation button, which will remain on the display as long as Speak Screen is enabled, and as long as the button controls have not been closed. Simply tap the little Speak Screen activation button to open the speech control buttons, then tap on the Play arrow button to begin speaking the screen aloud.
- Ask Siri to “Speak Screen.”
Source: https://www.razmobility.com/ios-built-in-accessibility/#learn-more