Numbers is also supposed to be quite accessible. I've played a little with Pages, and it seems extremely good so far.
TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 4 Feb 2010, at 17:40, Chris Blouch wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
