Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread Phil Halton
: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:25 AM Subject: RE: iWork programs and accessibility There is a desperate need for structured work to be done on building up knowledge of Mac productivity software so that a Visually Impaired person can fruitfully access it. There should be getting Started guides

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, I wish you luck with the one-to-one training, but I fear the trainer will not be familiar enough with VoiceOver to understand how to manage iWork. You have to do a lot of interacting and bringing the mouse to the VoiceOver cursor and doing a simulated mouse click. It all sounds

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread JAMES AUSTIN
Hi Josh, Pages is a wonderful application, though there are some serious limitations to what can be achieved with VoiceOver. At present, VO cannot see lists, footnotes or tables. It cannot also see headings in a document. It treats any heading as a piece of text. James On 5 Mar 2013, at

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Oh wow. I'm surprised apple has not yet fixed this and pages has been out for how long now? Tc all. On Mar 6, 2013, at 9:33 AM, JAMES AUSTIN james.aus...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Josh, Pages is a wonderful application, though there are some serious limitations to what can be achieved with

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread Phil Halton
:19 AM Subject: Re: iWork programs and accessibility Hello Phil, I wish you luck with the one-to-one training, but I fear the trainer will not be familiar enough with VoiceOver to understand how to manage iWork. You have to do a lot of interacting and bringing the mouse to the VoiceOver cursor

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread JAMES AUSTIN
Thank you anne I'd forgoten about the former and did not know about the latter. Hope you're both well. James On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: You can actually read tables in pages with VO using one of two methods. There is a command to convert the table to

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-05 Thread Josh Gregory
Pages seems okay, I just bought it yesterday and I haven't had a chance to really delve into it yet, But from what I've seen of it it seems fairly accessible. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Jim Noseworthy jim.nosewor...@compuconference.com wrote: Hi gang: How

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-05 Thread Cathy
hi, I have both pages and numbers. I have been disappointed with numbers because several of the shortcut keys have not worked for me. for example, I had some XLS files that numbers opened up fine, and I could read the first sheet of data, but the command to move from sheet to sheet has not

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-05 Thread Josh Gregory
Xls Files should be able to be opened in preview with no issue… I have had great luck with PDF files using this application which I was not honestly expecting to have. But that's a good thing overall. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Cathy flowersandhe...@gmail.com wrote: hi,