Hi Numbers is a bit hard to explain. It's accessible, but it does work quite differently than you'd expect, both with Voiceover and in general. Voiceover readsrow and column names, which you place in the cells identified as "header cell." Numbers, while it does have cell coordinates, isn't really based on them like spreadsheets such as Excel are. Having the coordinates would be nice in certain instances, such as when you are working with Excel spreadsheets and I've requested this from Apple already, but the more people who ask for it the better. Once rows and columns are placed in the header cells, VO will read that information as you move across the columns and rows. Multiple tables also work well, as do formulae. I would suggest reading the introductionary help provided in the Numbers application. Its access with VO is different than you're used to, and Numbers itself works off a different workflow than most spreadsheets. Quite apart from understanding VO's access to it, you also need to understand some of the basic concepts in Numbers. For example, Numbers is based off of several, smaller tables instead of one large sheet and does not encourage the use of cell coordinates. For instance, say you have a column for prices, for the sake of argument it is contained in the A row, cells a1 through a10. In excel, to add it up you could do: =sum(a1:a10) That is, naturally, a simplified way to do it. This will work in numbers, but typically you would do this instead, assuming you named the column prices for example: =sum(prices) Header cells can be placed at any point, so columns on different sections of the sheet can be in different areas. While numbers isn't the only spread sheet to use this idea, it does utilize it more than some others do. Numbers is one of those things you'd have to get used to and be willing to play with it at first if you'd like to use it effectively. Apple has some different ideas when it comes to spreadsheets. hth, and I hope I explained this ok
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:34 -0500, matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi list. How do you use numbers? It doesn't look like any spreadshet > program I used previously. VoiceOver isn't reading cell cooardinates > and only says "Cell" when I move around the table. Is this app not > fully accesible? Any feedback would be great. Thanks. >
