Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I'm wanting to create a kind of general heading for a table in the latest version of Numbers. Not a specific row or column heading, but a general kind of heading. In Excell I used to do this by merging the cells in the top row and putting the heading in there. This, however, doesn't see

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-21 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Nick, I think that VO is just having a hard time determining what you’ve done. I believe that your merge actually worked. If I merge cells A1 through C1, enter some text in the merged cells, then B1 and C1 will say that they are empty as you’ve noted. But if you navigate right once to the

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Tim, Yes, and if in the situation you outline I enter text in B1 or C1 then the text in A1 changes. However, even though this has technically worked properly, and probably looks fine to sighted people, it doesn't make a lot of sense to a VoiceOver user. If I or another VoiceOver user comes

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Nick, I agree with you that it isn’t obvious to a VO user, there needs to be some work on this sort of thing. I haven’t used the text box feature much but played around with it a little. When in the Toolbar, press on the Text button. You’ll be given some choices of what kind of text eleme

Re: Numbers | Merging Cells and Text Boxes

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
No, that's a great help, thank you, Tim! That will give me what I need to start playing and make some decent progress. Might email Apple Accessibility about that one. Though I do get a bit tired of emailing them, and I imagine they must be a little overwhelmed with accessibility issues at the m