Using the shift key to highlight, VoiceOver will indicate this.
However, using the VO and enter key to start and stop selecting does
not appear to work.
Take Care
John Panarese
On May 12, 2009, at 4:36 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>
> But does VO actually report what's selected or if something gets
> unselected? If so, everything is fine and i might even have a look at
> the new openoffice to see what i think about it.
> /Krister
>
>
> 11 maj 2009 kl. 20.26 skrev Chris Blouch:
>
>> Hmm. So I created a new Writer document and typed four sets of
>> sentences (paragraphs) with a blank line inbetween. I then cursored
>> up and left until I was at the beginning of the first sentence. I
>> then did a shift down arrow a bunch of times and was able to select
>> (and copy) all four paragraphs. The use of shift and arrows is not
>> really a VO thing. It's a pretty common idiom for a lot of
>> applications and also works for Windows text editors. Is this not
>> what you were looking for?
>>
>> CB
>>
>> John Panarese wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as I can see, the word processor still handles text in
>>> the same way. I don't know why this is the case, but you cannot
>>> select multiple paragraphs, unless I am missing something.
>>>
>>>
>>> Take Care
>>>
>>> John Panarese
>>>
>>> On May 9, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> One question that became a showstopper for me with openoffice is
>>>> that
>>>> i can't select more than a couple of lines and when you come to a
>>>> new
>>>> paragraph, you unselect the previously selected piece of text.
>>>> That is
>>>> with VO commands, no other command works for me. That plus the fact
>>>> that you can't continously read a whole document made me stop using
>>>> Openoffice alltogether. If anyone has found a way to get around
>>>> these
>>>> problems, please let me know how by giving step-by-step
>>>> instructions.
>>>> /Krister
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 8 maj 2009 kl. 21.27 skrev John Panarese:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not Chris, but Open Office is pretty accessible. The world
>>>>> processor is a bit different to use than others, but they have
>>>>> come a
>>>>> long way. I'm not sure what the problem with spreadsheets is. I
>>>>> am
>>>>> seeing the cells being read. With tables in word processor
>>>>> documents,
>>>>> however, I am not finding any success.
>>>>>
>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>
>>>>> John D. Panarese
>>>>> Managing Director
>>>>> Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
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>>>>> Hauppauge, NY 11788
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>>>>>
>>>>> On May 8, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Eliza Cooper wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>> How's the accessibility of the word processor in Open
>>>>>> Office? Is
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> any better than Writer?
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Eliza
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 8, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To answer my own question, I didn't notice much difference.
>>>>>>> Navigation
>>>>>>> of a table I created in writer still didn't announce what cell I
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> as I tabbed around.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CB
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris Blouch wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyone try it yet? Any improvements with VO support? Mine is
>>>>>>>> downloading
>>>>>>>> right now. I couldn't find any mentions one way or the other in
>>>>>>>> their
>>>>>>>> included docs or on the web.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> CB
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >
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