you might want to consider putting windows with MS office on your Mac running under VMWare fusion. Many people keep windows around for the use of Microsoft office word and excel. I do all my serious word processing work in Word until I can make Pages suit my needs. Then again, you'd have to get used to using a windows screen reader - I forgot you're coming from a sighted point of view. I can only suggest that you thoroughly immerse yourself in the VoiceOver getting started manual available in the VO help menu (command-option-H). Learn to use VO and rely less on your diminishing sight.
On May 9, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Rowena Portch <row...@rowenaportch.com> wrote: > I use the dictionary for the Thesaurus and love the one that comes on the Mac > computer. Now that I can no longer see due to my advancing retinitis > pigmentosa, I'm finding it more and more challenging to work on the computer > and be as productive as I used to be. I know that it takes time, but many of > the applications I have grown used to, are not very accessible with the > screen reader. > > I am trying to get comfortable with VoiceOver, but I seem to be struggling > big time. I wish I could find someone who was really savvy with this tool who > can help me. This group is amazing and very helpful, but I worry about being > a bit of a pain to everyone who has better things to do than answer my > questions all the time. > > I am a novelist who used to pump out two books per year. This current book is > taking much longer to write. Also, I cannot use Microsoft Word with Voice > Over, so I have switched to Pages. Pages is not compatible to the AutoVetters > I use to convert the books to an eBook format. > > Challenges all around right now for me. > > > On May 9, 2014, at 7:50 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am constantly looking up definitions of words on my iPhone 5 using SIRI - > especially when doing some writing. There's nothing worse than using a word > incorrectly when you're trying to sound like you know what you're talking > about:-) > I ask SIRI, "what is the definition of the word xxx". > it brings up the definitions from some dictionary, I'm not sure which one, > and she reads out the first definition from the list. I think she searches > Wolfran Alpha for the data. Incidentally, I use this for spelling too. If I > don't know how to spell a word, there's a good chance SIRI does. I do the > same as above, looking for the definition, and then I read the word character > by character for the correct spelling. > If SIRI can't find the word in the dictionary, she brings up a web search. > with wicapedia and other sources listed out. > It's one of the most useful features of the iPhone in my opinion. > > On May 9, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi there >> I think I understand your question. Here is how you do the same on the >> iPhone. From home screen, and maybe from other screens as well I'm not sure, >> you take three fingers and swipe down the springs up the search screen. The >> typing your search. Then you look toward the top of the screen and there's >> some choices. One is search the web, and the other is Wikipedia. If you >> choose search the web, then you get a definition. What is confusing for some >> people, at least for me for a while, is that voiceover says search the >> iPhone, but it is more extensive than that really. >> Gigi >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On May 9, 2014, at 7:48 AM, Gabriele Battaglia >>> <gabriele.battag...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Gigi. >>> How do the same on IOS? >>> Gabriel. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/macvisionaries/usWxW7GJZbM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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