Patent ID: 8881269

Claim:
A method, comprising: while an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a locked, passcode-protected state with a screen reader accessibility mode turned on: displaying a passcode screen for receiving a passcode on the display, the passcode including a predefined sequence of characters, the passcode screen including a plurality of character icons; detecting a sequence of gestures on the touch-sensitive surface that correspond to characters, wherein: a respective gesture of the sequence of gestures 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; determining whether the detected sequence of gestures corresponds to the predefined sequence of characters in the passcode; in response to determining that the detected sequence of gestures corresponds to the predefined sequence of characters in the passcode: unlocking the electronic device; and maintaining the electronic device in the screen reader accessibility mode; and, in response to determining that the detected sequence of gestures does not correspond to the predefined sequence of characters in the passcode: maintaining the electronic device in the locked, passcode-protected state with the screen reader accessibility mode turned on.