You're quite right. Since then, I spent some time with a sighted person so I could get visual feedback as I played around. They also gave me general tips on Keynote. I found hints, or vo-shift-h, on objects were very helpful, and that arrows or shift-arrows move by one or ten points respectively. I'd been using VO's "move object" command, which works but is less convenient than the built-in commands.
My main question now is how to resize things. If I want to make an image smaller, how would I do it? I can't figure out the VO command for resizing, as I don't understand the grid or area menus and can't do anything even once I choose one. Still, Keynote makes it more possible than I expected to make a decent powerpoint while blind. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 11, 2016, at 04:11, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > You’re asking an awful lot of questions in one message and you haven’t given > yourself much time to find the answers. > Use VO-Cmd-F3 and VO-Cmd-F3-F3 to get an idea of the layout of the slide. > If you have my book on Pages, you can find out all about shapes and what you > can do with them. > As for finding yourself back at the top of the slide, I’m not sure what’s > going on there. > One thing I would say is never use Quick Nav when editing slides, in fact, > don’t use it when editing anything. I consider Quick Nav to be a reading mode. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > >> On 10 Sep 2016, at 20:40, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I tried this a few years ago, but am again trying to make a slideshow for a >> presentation this Friday. I have questions, not surprisingly. I'm on the >> latest Keynote under 10.11, but I also plan to edit this on my iPhone. >> >> * In the 'body' area, I wrote a list of items. If I arrow to the bottom of >> this text field and then down arrow once more, I'm at the top of the field >> all of a sudden. Why? >> >> * The default slide includes a title and a body. Should I just put my text >> in the body, or should things go into text fields? That is, how oxo you >> decide between a lot of text in one field and less text in multiple fields? >> >> * How do you move items after you initially place them and exit the move >> mode? >> >> * How, as a blind person, can I make better sense of my layout? The numbers >> are a good start, but I can't picture how it all comes together. I also >> don't know when text fits, or if I need to scroll. >> >> * Speaking of which, how do you know how much text fits in a text box or >> other item? Or do they grow as you type? >> >> * Is there any point in inserting shapes? Can you put text in them or >> something? >> >> I think that's all for the moment. 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