Hello Anne, I meant to comment earlier on your nice discovery about reading tables in Pages with VoiceOver by using the Format menu and Table submenu, which I certainly did not know about before. However, when I want to read a page with an table embedded in Pages, I select the page or section, and then use my custom keyboard shortcut assigned to the Services menu option for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection". This effectively converts the contents of the table to text for the purposes of VoiceOver's reading. It switches focus to the selected text in a TextEdit window, where VoiceOver will just read through. Then you can command-tab back to Pages. I don't get many instances like this -- generally there are only a few Word documents that I need to open in Pages. However, I had to do this to read an embedded table recently, and this method worked for me, so I thought I would share this in case it also proved useful for others as an alternative to try.
This Services Menu shortcut is quite general purpose, and you'll recall that this can be used to read web pages with accessibility problems due to poor HTML formatting. You just need to check the box for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" to be one of the active commands in the Services Menu and assign it your own custom shortcut. Then select the page or section, and type your custom shortcut -- VoiceOver will read the selection including the table in TextEdit. Let me know whether this works for you, and maybe someone can try this in Nisus Writer Pro 2, as well, since both Damian and Dane referred to the problem of VoiceOver reading embedded tables in another post. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 16, 2011, at 21:32, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm sending this again since some of you seem to have missed it last week. > > Maybe other people here already knew about this, but I just discovered today > that you can make tables visible in Pages by selecting one and going to the > Format menu and down to the Table submenu where you select Convert Table to > Text. The contents of the table are then readable with VoiceOver. You still > have to copy the table into Numbers to edit it effectively, but if all you > want to do is read it, this solves that problem. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> 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: <https://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
