Hi guys I think that sometimes we are having a focus problem in Pages tables, but I can't prove that. This seems to be more of a problem in either large tables or if a table has been weirdly formatted, trust us VoiceOver users like me to set up really strange things that sighted people would probably catch right away and the programmers would never know about it. I have noticed that if I accidentally insert columns in and then put things in weird places on my table, that VoiceOver behaves weird.
I have used two commands successfully in Tables, although sometimes you have to mess with it to get it to work. I have used the tab key to go from cell to cell. Also, and I don't get this, I have used vo enter to get into the first cell in the table. For some reason, when I do that, it will let me use the tab key to go around. It is real easy to accidentally insert columns in your table, and if you have set the width to be skinny and you put in long text, it messes stuff up. VoiceOver doesn't seem to like it either. If you press option right arrow you are putting in a column to the right. If you do the opposite, you put in one to the left. Of course, option down arrow puts in a row below, option up arrow does the opposite, just like in Numbers. I think what happens is that if you are doing the vo right or left arrow, and you make a mistake and forget to press the control key, you have an extra column. You have to make sure to listen to VoiceOver telling you how many columns you have. I have not had a problem putting in extra rows, but I have done extra columns more than once. You might want to check the widths you have set up in the table that didn't work. I have files that have two tables, one small and the other one usually larger. I didn't do much to format the smaller one, just took the defaults. But the other one has three skinny columns and a fourth wider column, and I have made it as big as I can get it. Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:01 PM, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Actually, I did interact with the tables. The first one went just fine. But > not true for the second one, and so I wondered if there were other commands I > needed to invoke. Is formatting of a table or lack thereof a contributing > factor? > Thanks. > >> On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When you find a table, interact with it. From there, the usual vo-arrow key >> commands will move you around the cells, and you can stop interacting to >> return to the full document. >>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:59 PM, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> I am wondering if someone can direct me on navigating tables with vo in >>> pages. I am running the latest version of Mavericks. My document is a word >>> document and it has lots of tables. Help would be appreciated. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
