Hi Anne, Just a late follow-up, thanks a lot for providing your experiences with track changes and comments. I’ve spent a fair amount of time experimenting with this and I believe I have figured out how to reliably read and navigate through comments. It works just as you say; I’ve set hotspots on the previous and next buttons in the relevant toolbar to quickly navigate to them, and after pressing either button, I can immediately hit VO+SHIFT+J to enter the popover and read the comment, then press ESCAPE and use VO commands to navigate back to the body of the document. At that point I can hear what is selected, and thus determine where the comment was placed for context. The only thing that was confusing me was the fact that the first time I navigate to a comment, the popover often comes up automatically. There is often no need to hit VO+SHIFT+J the first time in an editing session to enter the popover; instead, I can just use VO+RIGHT ARROW to move through the popover and read the comment. However, when VO doesn’t jump to the popover automatically, and you use another navigation command, then VO+SHIFT+J no longer works. In any case, I can now use this feature reasonably confidently.
Thanks, Grant On Nov 15, 2014, at 2:21 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Grant, > I’m unfortunately still having a lot of trouble with using these track > changes features, particularly with comments. > > GH 1. The only way I’ve found to move to the next or previous comment is by > interacting with the “Change tracking and annotations” toolbar group. I can > see how many comments are in a document and there are previous and next > buttons. > AR Set hotspots on the Next and Previous buttons to get to them quickly. > GH 2. When I hit the Next or previous button to jump to the next or previous > comment, I hear VO play the sound that normally indicates that there is a > popup somewhere. However, VO doesn’t read the popup and VOShiftJ has no > effect. I am returned to the document and the word at which there is a > comment seems to usually be selected. > AR For me, the popover is not read immediately, but VO-Shift-j takes me there and I can read who made the change or comment and at what time. I can then accept or reject it. However, if I do anything other than press VO-Shift-j after hearing the sound, the popover seems to disappear. > GH 3. Pressing VOJ jumps me between the formatter and the document, as it > normally does. VOShiftJ just produces the beep sound indicating that I’ve > pressed an invalid command. There appears to be no way to read the comment. > AR I’m wondering whether the mouse has anything to do with this. I always set my mouse to ignore the other cursors. One thing that sometimes works is to bring the mouse and press VO-Space. > GH 4. I seem to be able to make comments on my own. If I select a word, I can > then stop interacting with the body and with the document layout area, > interact with the change tracking and annotations toolbar group, and select > the comment button. I can type in the comment into a popover and save it by > using VORight to navigate and select an unlabeled button next to the comment > edit field. > AR The unlabelled buttons in all these popovers are Previous and Next. > 5. As soon as I close the popover, I can’t bet it back. If I put the cursor a > little above the spot where I made my own comment then select the next > comment button, the word at which I made the comment is selected, however VO > never shows me the popover again. > Ar I’m not having these problems. However, I frequently lose the ability to navigate in the text using VoiceOver and have to toggle it off and on again. I hope this is of some use. Cheers, Anne -- 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.
