This would be a demanding but important project if you can pull it off. If you are to do this I think you should concentrate on where the current gaps are. There is no use spending time going over basics that others have already done though you could reference for example the vision Australia podcasts in whatever you produce so people could consult them if needed.
I would suggest a number of real world projects as walk throughs. So for example . using Pages to produce an Academic Report. This would not need to include basics like formatting selected text but would perhaps cover. 1 Choosing an appropriate template. 2. Customising Formatting of Margins as necessary. 3. Developing Header Styles. 4. Page numbering and formatting of page numbering styles. 5. Header and footer insertions and navigating to Header and footer to read information with VO. 5.b. Footnote insertion and footnote reading. 6. Strategies for coping with VO and Mac awkwardness with Tables. 7. Spell checking effectively. 8. using a dictionary with college work. 9. using a thesaurus with college projects. 10. Doing grammar checks. 11. Any strategies you could think of to replicate Text analyser function in Windows Screenreaders which identify proofing anomalies. 12. general proof reading tips - for example doing global find and replace of double spaces, replace all space full stop with full stops etc so work looks Ok for sighted reader. 13. using the word Count in document Inspector. 14. familiarisation with Document Inspector generally. 15. having a "save as" capacity with duplicate file creation. 16. table of Content creation. I am not sure if Pages can automate this in the same way as Microsoft Word but I hope that it can. 17. Automated Index creation, I am again not sure if Pages can do this , if not then perhaps investigate what program can do these things. 18. Managing hyperlinks for referencing purposes in documents. 19. Listing keyboard shortcuts for things like force new page. 20 . Adjusting line spacing, hopefully fine adjustment. I have to produce work in for example, 1.15 line spacing, that is just over single but below 1.5 line spacing. 21 . Inserting diagrams / flow charts/ organisation charts. This can be done accessibly with Word and Project working on the Windows platform. What is the accessible Mac Equivalent? 22. controlling Printing - print in reverse order, print collated documents etc. There are probably loads more things but this would perhaps get you started on Pages. A similar list could be created for Numbers. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JAMES AUSTIN Sent: 06 March 2013 18:04 To: Ma Access Mac OSX Subject: Creating Getting Started Guides Hi all, If I wre to try to create something along the lines people have been discussing, where would they want me to start? What should i assume if anything? If I were to do this would anyone be interested? Please bare in mind that this would be a side project and would need to fit around other things. So, it might take some time to emerge. Please write me off-list at: [email protected] Thank you James <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
