Its not at all obvious, but you can access the content area of Pages
with VoiceOver. Try hiding all the toolbars from the view menu. Then,
navigate till you find the "scroll area"; this is the content area.
Now, press vo+shift+spaceBar (mouse click). I think only one click
will do it, but maybe two - can't remember now.
There are still issues though. You can't set arbitrary styles on
items, text selection is not reported via voiceOver, and tables are
not accessible at all.
It is a great start though. I hope Apple continues to put resources
into making this software accessible.
-- Rich
On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear James,
Thanks on my behalf and on behalf of all those who need a good
wordprocessing pacage for writing to Apple. Great job.
With best wishes
Simon
On 30 Jan 2008, at 12:28, James Austin wrote:
Hello Apple Accessibility team,
This is a message I sent to the Pages Feedback team regarding the
latest update to Pages. Just to keep you in the loop.
Pages seems like a great word processor potentially, but as I am
sure you are aware, the min content area remains unaccessible for
Voice Over users. Whilst I applaud Apple's commitment to
accessibility, throughout the menus of Pages and across Mac OS X
generally, the lack of an accessible content area makes Pages
unusable. Is there any possibility that this could be fixed in the
near future please? Thank you Kind Regards James Austin
Thanks
Kind Regards
James
