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How to accept or decline an offered draw

Sorry to post on the subject twice my original post was garbled due to my mistake and dictation

Oh, I am playing a correspondence casual game with no rating and my opponent has offered me a draw. I have low vision and use voiceover to read text and have not been able to find anything that tells me how to accept or decline the offer I assume there is a button or something similar for this purpose

And can someone please help me complete this task as I don’t want to leave my opponents hanging thank you
To accept a draw offer, saying the word draw should work. At least that's what the voiceover help dialogue says.

To decline a draw offer, I guess you just continue as normal and play your move, and then the draw offer is declined.

Let me know if this has helped. I assumed you were using the Lichess voiceover feature, but maybe I was wrong.
Thanks for your reply

I’m using iOS voice over which converts text to speech. where do I find information on lichess voice over? Also, isn’t there a way to accept a draw just using their touch screen and/or keyboard?
Yes, there's a button for accepting a draw offer. If you're using keyboard input, you'll need to type draw to offer or accept a draw offer. If you're maybe using the blind mode, you also have to type draw to offer or accept a draw offer.

And I don't know if you're using the app but if you are, maybe try to use the mobile website in your browser as some features like the Blind mode might not even be availabe in the app.

And I think the Lichess voiceover feature is not what you need as it relies on arrows drawn on the board to figure out which piece to move. You can still find information about it here if you want to know more but it's quiet a long article: lichess.org/@/schlawg/blog/how-to-lichess-voice/nWrypoWI

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