I attempted to follow your instructions, but System Preferences crashed. I thought command-option-shift-t would work as a shortcut. Thoughts?
Jane On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:15 AM, Esther wrote: > 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/> <--- 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/>
