Hi Josh
There's actually only one serious useability issue in Pages that I've
found. It doesn't prevent me from using it, it's very much an
annoyance however. I have already reported this to Apple, and they did
reply so I know the message was received.
The issue relates to scrolling through a document. When you are
navigating line by line, if you transition to the next or previous
page, Voiceover will sometimes lose track of where it is--this isn't
100% reproduceable for me, but it's regular enough. From that point
on, the arrow keys won't read, and Voiceover's navigation keys become
unreliable in the document area. You can fix this temporarily by
navigating out of the body text area with the VO cursor and back in,
and that seems to jog Voiceover's tracking. However, if you scroll to
another page, it will sometimes happen again. I'm not the only one
this is happening to, it was another list member who actually
experienced this first and wanted to know if I'm seeing this problem
as well, which I am.
This is actually the only serious useability issue I've found. The
rest are minor--not all text attributes being exposed with VO+t and
other similar bugs, annoying but hardly show-stoppers as there are
other ways to get that information. Other than this issue I've also
been extremely impressed. Numbers takes some getting used to for one
such as myself who is more familiar with Excel and Tables--there are a
few minor accessibility issues in Numbers as well, but it's still
perfectly useable. . Keynote makes reading Powerpoints very easy
indeed, something I was never able to get to work in Openofffice due
to it repeatedly crashing when I tried to open a powerpoint.
For me, even with the quirks, it was worth the price tag of $80 which,
face it, is pretty modest for an office suite such as this.
On Jan 14, 2009, at 16:23, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
We're discussing iWork '09, as it was released last week. Not iWork
'08.
I'm wondering, for those of you declaring issues with Pages in
particular that make it unusable for you, what those problems are?
I've found the software to be extremely usable so far, and have been
exceedingly impressed. Where are the trouble spots for you in Pages?
