I was hunting for something that did tables in a wordprocessor and
worked well with voiceover. Tables, as a spreadsheet, is supposed to be
quite accessible although I haven't tried it myself.
CB
James & Nash wrote:
That's' an interesting work around. What about numbers? I am going to install a
trial of IWork 09 in a minute and give it a go. Also, there is an application
called Tables. This offered some VO support if I remember correctly.
TC
James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny
On 3 Feb 2010, at 22:33, Chris Blouch wrote:
I've not found a good text editor that handles tables well. I can navigate
tables in Open Office ok but it doesn't give me any context as to the column
and row I am in. The odd thing is that in the window chrome at the bottom it
has the actual text I want such as
TableTitle:A3
which is the name of the table and my cursor is in the first column and the
third row. Only workaround I could come up with was to set a VO hot spot on the
chrome with VM-Shift-Number (usually number 1) and then set VO to announce
changes in the hotspot with VO-command-shift-number (usually number 1). Of
course to set that up I need to first get into a table because otherwise that
location in the chrome is simply read as 'blank text'. So the process is to
navigate somewhere in a table, stop interacting with scroll area, VO down once
and right until I get to the spot with the table name row:header (VO-right 7
times), set the hotspot, then return back to the content area. From then on VO
will announce the columns and rows as I move around the table. Not great, but
it kinda works.
CB
Mary Otten wrote:
Thanks, James, for that speedy reply. I have not yet bought any application for word processing hoping to benefit from others' experiences and just get one app that will do the job. I don't mind tables on the Windows side in Word with Window Eyes or Jaws. But prior to the implementation of good support for them by the screen reader vendors, they were indeed horrible, so I sympathize with your frustration with trying to use tables without good accessibility support.
Mary
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