Hello Simon, We’re not writing a book on Numbers at the moment. We keep thinking about it, but it takes so much time which is in short supply right now. People don’t realise how much work goes into writing a book about a complex application. There are so many VO commands that most users know nothing about, so they have to be explained. Then there is the problem of communicating visual concepts verbally. I have the advantage of having been fully sighted when a small child, but I’ve been totally blind for over 50 years and the visual world has changed out of all recognition in that time. While writing the Pages book, my poor husband must have spent hours explaining visual concepts to me so that I could put them into terms that a blind person could understand.
There are parts of the Pages book that are helpful in Numbers, such as tables and charts. It took me quite a while to understand how charts work but I can now see how showing data as coloured bars of varying length can have an immediate visual impact. All this to say that a book on Numbers is not for the immediate future. Cheers, Anne > On 12 Sep 2016, at 01:43, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anne, > > The question needs to be asked, > > Are you by any chance writing one to go with the pages book? > > Simon F > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016 11:49 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Books on Numbers from a blind perspective? > > Hello Doug, > > No, there are no books on Numbers with VO. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > On 11 Sep 2016, at 12:42, Douglas Lawlor <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I am wondering if any books have been written on using Numbers from a blind > users perspective? 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