Hello Ismael,
In Pages, you can find the full list of shortcuts by going to the Help menu and
down to Keyboard Shortcuts. You need to use the VO keys to navigate down to
this option.
Cheers,
Anne
On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:03, Ismael Herrera isupr...@me.com wrote:
greetings every one!
Does
Hello Sean,
On 6 Jun 2015, at 01:54, Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote:
Also how do you detect the position of the cursor from the left side of the
screen in an application? Is this application dependent?
This is problematic. VO-F4-F4 will give you the position of the insertion
Hello Juanita,
You’re probably getting three messages on your Mac, too. Try deleting a message
and then pressing Cmd-z to restore it. You’ll probably hear that three messages
have been restored. Mail just shows one copy as they’re all coming to the same
address and are all sent out at the same
Yes, I’m getting three copies of every message, but since they’re all being
sent out at the same time and to the same address, I only see one copy unless I
delete the message then restore it, at which point, VoiceOver says that three
messages have been restored.
Cheers,
Anne
On 3 Jun 2015,
Hello Chris,
I was only ever subscribed with one e-mail address and only to this group.
Cheers,
Anne
On 3 Jun 2015, at 18:48, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com
wrote:
I got to thinking about that whole thing with people getting multiple
messages. I'm definitely not, and
Hello Julie,
To find the next comment or change, press Cmd-Option-k and you should land in a
popover where you can read the comment or change and who did it. You can also
accept or reject it. If the popover doesn’t come up, try pressing VO-Shift-j.
Cheers,
Anne
On 26 May 2015, at 07:02,
the spaces also and does one put
the ;
Eleanor
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Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 6:52 AM
Subject: [Mac-Access]: Pages, selecting text across page boundaries
Hello
the word leave.
On 25 May 2015, at 08:31, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello everyone,
I’m not a moderator, so don’t shoot me down!
I think this will work for leaving the list which is using SurgeMail. Send a
message to:
mac-access-lea...@mac-access.net mailto:mac-access-lea...@mac-access.net
The subject and body do not matter.
Cheers,
Anne
Hello Margaret,
Have you tried Tim Sniffen’s free iBook, Mastering the Macintosh with
VoiceOver”? A lot of people have found it very useful and it covers using Pages.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 May 2015, at 07:56, Margaret Booth margaretebo...@gmail.com wrote:
I’m helping a friend of mine to
Hello Michael,
You can change the voice on the fly by pressing VO-Cmd-Down Arrow as long as
you leave the voice rotor on voice. I do this all the time between English and
French.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 May 2015, at 11:35, Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote:
hey all,
something
Hello Roger,
I, too, have been unable to contact Gordon today and my problems are much worse
than just unwanted e-mail traffic. Gordon hosts my website and it’s been down
for over three weeks now. We were in contact over the week-end, but today,
nothing.
I can tell you that the mail server is
20 times now
is the inability to select text that span multiple pages. I've verified this
is a voice over bug by shutting off voice over and selecting multiple pages.
Looks likeI have to keep reporting that one.
Take care.
On May 25, 2015, at 1:52 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk
Hello everyone,
Here is the fix for this problem.
Open a TextEdit document and paste in the following without the quotes:
{
^y = yankAndSelect:; //control-y
^\@ = setMark:; //control-@
^w = deleteToMark:; //control-w
^x = { //control-x control-x
^x = selectToMark:;
};
^ = setMark:;
For the complete list of VoiceOver commands, press VO-h-h. I doubt there’s a
complete list of Mac OS X commands as they are all shown beside their menu
items. You can also look in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences.
Cheers,
Anne
On 24 Mar 2015, at 13:41, Ann Byrne ann...@sbcglobal.net
Hello,
Apple uses the Duxberry Braille tables.
Cheers,
Anne
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On 21 Mar 2015, at 19:17, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com
wrote:
So how do we either modify them, or create them, provided we have a windows
machine lying around, and that we have a copy of Duxberry?
It would require an in-depth knowledge of the internal workings of Mac OS
Hello Ian,
Pages can give you the character count with or without spaces, word count,
paragraph count and page count. Go to the View menu to find this.
Cheers,
Anne
On 6 Jan 2015, at 00:02, Ian McNamara ianmcnamar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all is there anyway of inserting a page break in
Hello Cait,
To save a Pages document in another format you need to use Export to which is
in the File menu. The available formats are: PDF, Word, Plain Text, EPUB and
Pages09.
Cheers,
Anne
On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:16, Caitlyn Furness caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
How can I select a
Hello Doug,
You need to set Text Attributes to speak. Press VO-v then use right arrow to
find Text Attributes. Use up or down arrow to find what you want, then press
Return.
Cheers,
Anne
On 2 Dec 2014, at 18:52, Douglas doug.c...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey guys. I know you can script this
Hello Sarah,
Of course I’ve e-mailed Accessibility. I always do, for what it’s worth.
Cheers,
Anne
On 29 Nov 2014, at 23:07, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
have you emailed accessibil...@apple.com mailto:accessibil...@apple.com
with yoru findings?
Take care.
--- Mac
Hello Sarah,
MoveMouse works just fine in Yosemite. You have to copy the MoveMouse Unix
Executable File to the clipboard and then press Cmd-Shift-a and paste it there.
You then have to go to Library and open Services. That’s where you paste the
four work flows. You then open System Preferences
Hello all,
Another retrograde step in the new Pages. Under Mavericks, the table of
contents formatter allowed a VoiceOver user to check or uncheck any elements in
the table of contents. Since Yosemite and the latest Pages, those checkboxes
are inaccessible with VO.
However, there is a
, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello all,
Another retrograde step in the new Pages. Under Mavericks, the table of
contents formatter allowed a VoiceOver user to check or uncheck any elements
in the table of contents. Since Yosemite and the latest Pages, those
checkboxes
Hello Matthew,
The text that is not in English is placeholder text in a form of Latin. Never
navigate using Quick Nav in Pages as things will not behave correctly.
You should interact with the document and navigate using the arrow keys. You
should then find that the placeholder text is
Hello Matthew,
In Pages, always make sure that Quick Nav is off.
Interact with the various text areas and navigate just with the arrow keys. The
placeholder text should be automatically highlighted as you navigate to it and
will disappear as soon as you start typing.
If ever you hear a
Hello all,
I’ve had a look at the insertion point problem again and have discovered that
what is being reported when pressing VO-F4-F4 is the actual position of the
insertion point on the computer screen, not the position of the insertion point
as it would appear on the printed page. As far as
Hello Sarah,
Holding down the C key is no longer the way to boot from an external source.
You have to hold down the Option key then press right arrow twice.
Cheers,
Anne
On 16 Nov 2014, at 07:43, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all. I was working on the final part of my
Hello Mary,
I just press Cmd-Space to switch keyboards. To set this up, go to System
Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts. Select Input sources in the first table, then
in the second table, check the checkbox for Select the previous input source.
If you only have two keyboards, this will work as a
Hello,
Find and Replace works the same way whatever the application. Press Cmd-f then
navigate to the Options button if replace is not currently available. Having
entered the text to be found and the replacement text, click Done then press
Escape.
Cheers,
Anne
On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:57,
Hello Nick,
Have you tried the Move Mouse application? Here’s the link to it:
http://www.podfeet.com/blog/2014/10/movemouse/
http://www.podfeet.com/blog/2014/10/movemouse/
This avoids the need to turn on Mouse keys. It doesn’t work in pop overs but it
does work for renaming tables.
I set the
Hello Nick,
The version of Pages that came out this week does not break footnotes! I just
tested it. You can still rename tables, too.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hello Sarah,
I’m not having this problem. VoiceOver reads for footnote2 link Footnote 2”.
Of course, VO doesn’t actually recognise what it calls links as links, so the
next link command doesn’t work.
I’m running Yosemite version 10.10 (14A389) also.
Cheers,
Anne
.
On 5 Nov 2014, at 20:17,
Hello Andy,
Option-e gives an accute accent as a dead key, so you can type any appropriate
lettre afterwards and the accute accent will be applied to it. This is true of
all the other accents I gave you.
However, if you’re typing a lot of Spanish, why not add the Spanish keyboard
layout in
Hello Eleanor,
The Finder is the application that manages the storage of files and folders
whatever the application that created them.
On a Mac, it is a bad idea to put lots of icons on the desktop as they all get
loaded into memory when the computer is booted and can therefore slow down the
It’s best to use the Dock for aliases. Personally, I don’t bother with them as
it’s so easy to locate any files or folders I want by using the first letter or
two of the name. I’m really pretty organised when it comes to storing files.
Also, don’t forget that it’s easy to reorganise the Dock so
Hello Sarah,
That workaround was for TextEdit, not Pages. I have absolutely no idea how to
select large chunks of text in Pages. I tried everything I could think of this
morning with no success.
Sorry not to be of help.
Cheers,
Anne
On 4 Nov 2014, at 21:04, Sarah k Alawami
Hello Andy,
You get accented letters by using the Option key with various letters.
Option-e - accute accent;
Option-i - Circumflex;
Option-u - diresis also known as umlaut;
Option-Accent sign - grave accent;
Option-q - OE diphthong.
Do you need any others?
Cheers,
Anne
On 4 Nov 2014, at
If you’re using Yosemite and the latest Pages, VO misreports a section break as
a page break. There is no short cut for section break so you have to do it from
the Insert menu. Also, Enter is not Return. The short cut for page break is
Cmd-Enter which is Cmd-FN-Return on a laptop keyboard.
OK, you’re inserting a section and not a section break. By default, that means
adding a section at the end of the document. If you insert a section break
instead, you can then redefine the part of the document that comes after the
section break.
I think you must have created that short cut
Hello everyone,
I’ve installed Yosemite as I heard good things about it, and I got the iWork
updates. Unfortunately, in Pages, the menu buttons to the right of the
Paragraph styles is no longer accessible using VoiceOver. We now have to use
the mouse or Mouse keys to get to it and click it.
Hello Ian,
When you set up your new MBA, did you enter your Apple ID? if so, as soon as
there is an update to these applications, they should be detected on your MBA
and then associated with your Apple ID. At least, I think that’s how it works!
Cheers,
Anne
On 16 Oct 2014, at 18:17, Ian
Hello Ian,
Once you’ve got iWork on one of your machines, you can get it on all your
machines. I think it appears in your purchased items.
Cheers,
Anne
On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:07, Ian Harrison harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karoo.co.uk
wrote:
Hi listers.
I've just got i Works included in
Hello Marcos,
To adjust line spacing, go to the Formatter and select Style. You’ll find what
you need in the scroll area.
As for adding a page number, decide where you want your page number to be then
interact with that area. I tried with the right-hand side of the header. Once
in the right
Hello Andy,
As far as I know, you can’t change this behaviour. But what’s so difficult
about doing Cmd-down Arrow to get to the last row? Alternatively, you can do
VO-Shift-End to get to the last cell.
Cheers,
Anne
On 16 Aug 2014, at 11:14, Andy Collins a...@recreation.plus.com wrote:
Hi
. Each time I open a spreadsheet,
I land in the layout area. I have to hit VO shift down arrow twice to
actually get in to the body of the spreadsheet. Once there, I can’t do CMD
down arrow to get to the end of the spreadsheet as mentioned above -
Andy
On 16 Aug 2014, at 10:54, Anne
:
Table 1 table has been removed from selection.
At this point, I was able to access my spreadsheet, but CMD down arrow, which
hasn’t been reassigned to do something different, just gave me the ding sound
-
Andy
On 16 Aug 2014, at 16:28, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote
Hello Andy,
You should repair permissions after installing new software and after updates.
People who only use their Macs for simple tasks can get away with not repairing
permissions, but as soon as you start using more complex programs such as
Numbers, you’re going to encounter anomalous
:
Not Andy but what is Repan permissions and how is this done please
On 16 Aug 2014, at 18:09, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Andy,
You should repair permissions after installing new software and after
updates.
People who only use their Macs for simple tasks can get away
Hello Gordon,
Here’s where to find your iBooks:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/
Unfortunately, the names are not meaningful and the file type is epub.
As far as I know, you can only open them in iBooks, unless you created them
yourself, in which case, you
Hello Michael,
Things have changed in Mavericks. You must turn Trackpad commander off.
Navigate to the horizontal splitter with VO;
Bring the mouse;
Press down on the trackpad with one finger while stroking downwards with
another finger.
Sometimes, it takes several attempts to get this right
Hello Eleanor,
Press VO-V then navigate right until you hear Text Attributes. use the up or
down arrow to find DO Nothing, then press Return.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 Jul 2014, at 20:17, Eleanor Burke eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
It hasn’t made any difference when I change to minimum, it
Hello Andy,
Your keyboard is already British English. The Mac keyboard is different from a
PC keyboard so the @ sign is where it should be, over the 2. Just use VO-k to
find where all the keys are.
If you’re typing in another language, you can add the keyboard layout for that
language in
Hello Isaac,
It’s a very bad idea to have VoiceOver announce when a modifier key is pressed
as it prevents the use of the command “Copy last phrase to clipboard”.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hello Eleanor,
VoiceOver saying “Misspelt” is an option. You need to spend some time going
through the VoiceOver Utility and looking at all the settings. Pay particular
attention to the Verbosity category, especially the Text tab.
Cheers,
Anne
On 23 Jul 2014, at 12:27, Eleanor Martha Burke
Hello Gordon,
Your iBooks are stored here:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/
As for everyone moving to Mavericks, there are features of iWork09 that are
still missing from the new versions of the apps and you can’t install iWork09
under Mavericks from the
Hello Eleanor,
You configure Braille settings in the VoiceOver Utility, first of all in the
Braille category, then in Verbosity under Braille.
Cheers,
Anne
On 17 Jul 2014, at 16:27, Eleanor Martha Burke eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi, I have plugged in my Focus Blu 40 and at least
Hello Eleanor,
In VoiceOver Utility, go down to the second from last category which is
Braille. Select Layout. You’ll find several check boxes such as Use 8-dot
Braille, and others. Then select the Verbosity category and select Braille. Set
Braille verbosity to either low or medium.
Cheers,
Hello Eleanor,
All the commands that are programmed into your Braille display show up in a
table when you click the Assign Commands… button in the VoiceOver Utility,
category Braille, Displays tab. You can add VoiceOver commands if you find that
you need to. To find the table, just press
Hello everyone,
I think we’ve finally cracked this problem. You can’t find out exactly where
your signature is on the page, but you can know where it is relative to the
body of the letter and your name.
To insert a scanned signature file, copy the appropriate image file to the
clipboard and
Hello Eleanor,
If you navigate through a Pages document by sentence or paragraph, VO wil
announce the page number as you go on to a new page.
If you use VO-a to read continuously, you’ll hear the page change sound but no
page number will be announce. However, if you pause the reading, VO-F3
Hello Eleanor,
I’m wondering what kinds of documents you’re reading. Placeholder text is text
that is meant to be replaced. You navigate to it with just the arrow keys and
start typing the replacement text when VO says “Highlighted”. So, it’s quite
important information that you’re getting.
Hello Eleanor,
When I use Cmd-f to find text, I click the Done button and I’m back in the text
with the first result of the Find highlighted. To find the next occurrence, I
press Cmd-g and the next one is highlighted. As far as I know, all Mac Find
commands use the letter ‘g’ to go straight to
Cmd-f works fine, too. Also, why not create an activity with low verbosity and
other tweaks to keep extra information to a minimum?
Cheers,
Anne
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Hello John,
For as long as VoiceOver has existed, it has been possible to install Mac OS X
without sighted help. Back in the days of Tiger, Braille was not available, but
since Leopard, we’ve had Braille too during installation.
Cheers,
Anne
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Hello Graham,
The command to close a widget is now VO-Cmd-Escape.
Cheers,
Anne
On 7 Jun 2014, at 17:06, Graham Smith g.smith...@rogers.com wrote:
I have just listened to David Woodbridge’s podcast on the dashboard and
unless its me, some of the keystrokes have obviously changed in later
Hello Bill,
I use BlindSquare and love it. It updates me on where I am and tells me about
nearby intersections. I use it when walking and on buses. It uses quite a bit
of battery power and you have to remove it from the app switcher to stop it but
it runs beautifully in the background so you
Hello David,
Although Tesco isn’t of interest to me as I live in France, I know of other
sites where the contents of the page change without me hearing the page loaded
sound. What I usually do on pages that puzzle me is use the Web Rotor to
investigate the form controls. I find the Web Rotor
Hello Judy,
To get the Giraffe Reader, go to:
http://www.giraffe-reader.com
To get the StandScan Pro Power Bundle:
http://standscan.com/index.php/product/standscan-pro-portable-document-scanner-power-bundle.html
The Giraffe Reader weighs 70 g and can fit into a large handbag. It unfolds in
Hello Frank,
In Mavericks, double-clicking on the splitter no longer works. You have to hold
down the physical mouse and drag the splitter to the bottom if it’s a
horizontal splitter, or to the far right if it’s a vertical splitter. If you’re
in Classic view, it will be the horizontal splitter
I find that setting the mouse to ignore the other cursors prevents troublesome
focusing issues.
Cheers,
Anne
On 19 Apr 2014, at 19:32, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
I have never had that issue. Check your curser tracking to see if it is off
if it is utrn it on. You can do this
Selecting and copying text in Pages for Mavericks works just fine for me and I
use it a lot.
Cheers,
Anne
On 16 Apr 2014, at 17:29, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote:
I just did a test on this with pages and copied the text to the clipboard and
pasted it in to another app and nothing was
Hello Will,
The Add to dock command is Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-t.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Apr 2014, at 14:44, William Lomas w.d.lo...@btinternet.com wrote:
hi to all
in mac osx 10.9 we cannot seem to simply put an app on the dock directly from
the apps folder, without having to open it first, to
Hello Eleanor,
You can find all the applications installed on your system in your Applications
folder. You open this folder with Cmd-Shift-a.
Cheers,
Anne
On 29 Mar 2014, at 22:26, Eleanor Burke eleanorbu...@btinternet.com wrote:
I downloaded a programme to my Dropbox and from there
Hello Eleanor,
Mission Control is a way of managing open applications and organising them into
Spaces. Since VoiceOver does not take account of Spaces (groups of applications
used together for a given task), Mission Control is useless to us. So this is
why I disable Mission Control on my
Yes. Mission Control often interferes, especially while editing a text
document. It’s all too easy to hit a wrong key from time to time, or not to
press all the keys of a command at once, and to find that something unexpected
has happened.
Cheers,
Anne
On 26 Mar 2014, at 09:20, Eleanor
Hours: Nonday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern accept
holidays.
On Mar 26, 2014, at 1:15, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Eleanor,
Mission Control is a way of managing open applications and organising them
into Spaces. Since VoiceOver does not take
you explain the key strokes for system preferences?
Best wishes
Henry
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Sent: 26 March 2014 06:45
To: OS X iOS Accessibility
Subject: Re: Track
The Dashboard is where you find all your widgets. Widgets are tiny applications
that are very simple to use. There are a dozen or more preinstalled widgets
such as Weather, Contacts, Calculator, etc. The default short cut is F12. You
find the installed widgets by opening the Dashboard and
heard nothing.
Best regards Annie.
Den 14/03/2014 kl. 09.15 skrev Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
Hello Annie,
I have an iPhone 5.
I’m sure Sam would be happy to test the Giraffe Reader with various
iPhones if you e-mail him about your concerns.
Cheers,
Anne
On 13 Mar
with
finereader for the mac.
Best regards Annie.
Den 13/03/2014 kl. 17.34 skrev Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
Hello everyone,
My Giraffe Reader arrived today. It’s amazingly light and small, and is easy
to erect and fold away again. Below my signature is a paper I scanned using
Hello everyone,
My Giraffe Reader arrived today. It’s amazingly light and small, and is easy to
erect and fold away again. Below my signature is a paper I scanned using
TextGrabber with flash on. The paper is an English exam for French nursing
students.
Cheers,
Anne
2008, GP figures show.
Hello Sarah,
Esther has described the Giraffe Reader very well. It is extremely light and
measures 26 cm by 21 cm or about 10.5 in by 8.5 in. It isn’t as stable as the
StandScan Pro but is even more portable. I can see myself using it in
restaurants to read the menu, which would be rather
! so for me shipping won't take that
long.
thanks for the explanation. i've just behind the times thats all lol!
Take care and be blessed.
On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sarah,
Esther has described the Giraffe Reader very well
Hello Eleanor,
I don’t see a price for this product. Have you any further information?
Cheers,
Anne
On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:57, Eleanor Burke eleanorbu...@btinternet.com wrote:
If you are looking for an OCR solution at a reasonable price, Sam Jewell has
designed a stand to get exact distance
.
The developer's Twitter page is: https://twitter.com/SOJewell
The currently minimal product web page for sign-up is:
http://giraffereader.launchrock.com/
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Eleanor,
I don’t see a price for this product. Have you
Hello everyone,
The price of the Giraffe Reader in the euro zone is €33.25 and will be shipped
Articles for the blind, so no charge.
I’m ordering one for myself and will report back as soon as I have it.
Cheers,
Anne
On 6 Mar 2014, at 22:03, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote
:
One more question. Will these end notes export correctly if I export to .doc
or .docs? or what ever else pages offers?
Take care and thanks again.
On Feb 16, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sarah,
You can’t have both footnotes and endnotes
Line spacing is under Style in the Text Formatter. You have to interact with
the scroll area to find where to adjust this.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:37, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe double spacing in pages is in the inspector. That's all I know and
I'm only
if there is an accessible app four pasting in a signature file on
the iOS platform? This would be so useful for me!
Thanks,
Sandy
Sent from my iPhone
On 22 Feb 2014, at 07:45, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sarah,
Many of us have an image file containing our scanned signature
!
Take care.
On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello all Pages users,
The standard way of inserting a signature in Pages is problematic and VO
users can’t find out where it is. I’ve found a way to place the signature
file correctly.
Navigate
need to paste in a signature file?
I'm a bit behind the times when it comes to pages and how to use it. lol!
Take care.
On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello all Pages users,
The standard way of inserting a signature in Pages is problematic and VO
Hello Frank,
FN-Up Arrow or down arrow is purely visual and does not work for VO users. It
does not move the insertion point, mouse pointer or VO cursor. That’s why we
have to use the VO command VO-FN-Up or Down Arrow.
Cheers,
Anne
On 16 Feb 2014, at 08:28, Frank Ventura
Hello Sarah,
When you insert a footnote, VoiceOver announces it as a link in the document
but does not recognise it as such.
When you encounter a footnote in your text, navigate to it and press VO-Space
to read the footnote itself.
To return to your document, interact with the footnote, go to
need
both I'll do both. depending if I need to insert a long note about what ever
in to the paper..
Take care and thanks again.
On Feb 16, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sarah,
When you insert a footnote, VoiceOver announces it as a link
.
Another question from a visual perspective.
If I do use both footnotes and end notes what will they see visually and
will they be able to tell what Im doing with out getting confused?
Take care.
On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Sarah
Hello Margaret,
The VO command for Page up or Page down is VO-FN-Up arrow or down arrow. You
must be interacting with the text for this to work and you need to have
TextEdit set to Wrap to page. Unfortunately, with Wrap to page set, the normal
arrow keys without the VO keys no longer work
Hello Chris,
You can set TextEdit to Wrap to window and all the normal arrow keys work, or
you can use the VO keys, so VO-Down Arrow will read the next line, or you can
use Quick Nav and set it to Line.
With Wrap to page set, the VO commands for next sentence, next Paragraph, and
so on work
- From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Shortcut key for page up
Hello Chris,
You can set TextEdit to Wrap to window and all the normal arrow keys work, or
you can use
Hello Laurel,
The VO-Cmd-Arrow keys commands stay on the attribute last used. So for me,
changing languages is just as quick as on the iPhone since I just have to do
VO-Cmd-Down Arrow to change the language.
Out of curiosity, I tried creating a track pad gesture to Decrease speech
attribute
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