I am afraid there is a big gap in the market for intermediate to advanced uses of Voiceover.
Frankly lists of this sort are as good a place to start as any, along with Apple Vis as a good reference point. If you are wanting to increase your proficiency with Office tools then Ann Robinson on this list has helped many with training over Skype at apparently reasonable rates I believe. For myself, on the Mac, I stick to TextEdit and Siri for the time being. For what it is worth here is how I set about things. I have a blank Microsoft Word document on my iMac called blank.doc. To start work I locate this document and press command D to copy it. On the blank copy.doc I press enter and then dictate with siri a new filename. I then open it and start dictating my text. Probably a bit clunky but works for me and I find it a lot easier than opening TextEdit and navigating through the iCloud stuff etc. I also find personally that setting pronunciation to all whilst writing on the Mac prevents many formatting errors. This is great for document creation but TextEdit will not have the advance editing and formatting tools of a full blown Word Processor. I cannot advise on advance tools such as indexing, table of content wizards and text analysis as I am afraid I still do these on a Windows platform. If anybody can tell you how to do this on the Mac platform I too would be interested. Apparently Pages under Mavericks can now provide Voiceover feedback on tables though which is a good advance so I suspect that Pages under mavericks is now important for a Mac student providing capabilities like mail merge are not required. David Griffith. . -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Harrison Sent: 08 November 2013 09:36 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Beyond voice over basics Hi listers, I am hoping you can point me towards detailed guides or tutorials that will help me develop a more advanced capability in using voice over on both the mac and in IOS. I am hoping to start a degree next year and I suspect I will need to be much better than I am now. I currently use a bluetooth keyboard on the mac but have not yet paired one with my iphone. I've learned enough shortcuts to get around but see that many other listers use far more advanced techniques when it comes to text searching and editing and using the web. I am hoping to use the time I have to become much more proficient, especially when away from home or using unfamiliar software. Thanks for any thoughts Ian <--- 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/>
