Hello Chris, In Pages, leaving the text area using VO removes the selection so you can't apply a style. You have to set a hotkey for the style you want and just press it in the paragraph to which it should apply.
You can check on what style is in operation by setting a hotspot on the Styles drawer. To do this, open the Styles drawer with Cmd-Shift-t, navigate to it, make sure that you're not interacting with it and set a hotspot. You can then use VO-Cmd-hotspot to discover what is selected in the Styles drawer. If you can't navigate within any text area, go there with VO, bring the mouse and click. There is a lot more than that to using Pages but it should help to get you started. Cheers, Anne On 1 Oct 2012, at 01:00, Christopher Edwards <edwardsc2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thanks to all who answered my questions. I am sorry I did not reply before > but I am up to my ears in boxes as I prepare for some major alterations to my > house. I am therefore also behind with my emails. > > I think I gave rather a bad example with something as simple as making text > bold. I am in the UK and wrote the message at the end of a long and tiring > day. I will therefore give a very specific example. > > I type some text in the body of a document and then stop interacting with the > various parts of the document as I make my way back to the formatting bar and > choose the paragraph style button. > > Firstly I cannot read any of the items on the menu that appears as VO says > absolutely nothing. I did this at the Apple store and the trainer told me the > style and confirmed that it had been applied. > > Then, when I went back into the document and interacted with the various > parts until I got to the body of the text I could not read the text I had > previously entered. I simply got a "dong" sound when moving either the VO > cursor or the actual cursor. This was because the actual text entry cursor > would not move any further than the header section of the document. We tried > doing everything we could think of with the cursor tracking but to no avail. > > I know there are some issues with Pages and Voiceover but I cannot believe > they are this bad. I am sure I am doing something very simple that is wrong > so please can anyone tell me what it is? > > Once again, many thanks, > > Chris Edwards > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
