The bad news is that Office on the Mac is not accessible to Voiceover. You can read and edit Word documents using the inbuilt text Edit. Beam is also a good free word processor. Open Office is also inaccessible under Lion but can apparently be used in Snow Leopard. Re the internet and assuming you have Lion I would suggest that you use single letter navigation and quick nav. Go to Voiceover Utility and then Commanders and then quick nav. Check the box where it says navigate web pages by single letter .
To open internet press VO D to go to the dock and then press S. You will probably land on Safari. Press return and this will launch safari. Now, providing you have quick nav turned on pressing H will jump you to headings. There is a learning curve to getting used to the Mac so take your time. There are good tutorials to help you get used to using the Mac. Check out David Woodbridge's tutorials Vision Australia and Mike dorigos podcasts on the legacy Blind cool tech site. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mairead O Mahony Sent: 19 June 2012 13:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Help with creating documents and using the internet with VoiceOver Hi all, I am new to the list and have just started using one of the new macBook Pros with VoiceOver. I haven't used a mac computer before so all this is very new to me. I have Office installed but I am unable to figure out how to create a document. I held down Shift, Control, Options and D to get to the desktop and then pressed D until I heard doc. Then I pressed T followed by shift, control, options and down arrow to try and get in to where I edit a document. I started typing but voiceOver wasn't reading out what I was typing so I don't think the information went in to the document. Then I pressed command Q to close out of the document and I was asked if I wanted to save the changes so I just said no. Re the internet, I would appreciate it if someone could please email me keystrokes for launching the internet and navigating headings, links and forms. Thanks in advance Mairead O Mahony <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
