I think one problem may be that you’re still thinking in terms of jaws and windows whilst working on a Mac. When I first transitioned to the Mac someone told me to just forget about jaws and work with vo because they are two different systems and you can’t transfer functionality of one over to the other and vice versa. I was stumped with numbers at first for the same reason you are - skipping over blank spaces but it’s a different concept on the Mac you don’t have data areas spaced out around an endless grid, instead you have a table to contain one data set and multiple tables on a canvas. That way you don’t have the problem of embedded blanks and the inability to skip past them. Header and row columns are spoken perfectly well in numbers, and if you give it a chance, and just forget about jaws and excel you Will find that numbers works extremely well. I was a heavy Jaws and XL user to, now I’m a heavy numbers user. Good luck to you.
Sent from my IPhone > On Sep 16, 2019, at 12:30 AM, Dave Carlson <dgcarl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > I’m spending a large amount of time re-acquainting myself with Excel on the > Mac. It’s my preference because I can very quickly leap from one set of data > to another, skipping over all the blanks. Numbers does not offer this. > > Okay, I’ve resolved the negative numbers issue by using Tom as my voice, and > showing the minus$ as the format. Now, here’s what could well be a > deal-breaker… > > As we all know, without a way to have the top row and left column speaking > along with navigating the spreadsheet, we are totally lost. Good old JAWS in > Windows provided this — VO apparently does not. All my searching for methods > on the web sites to set up a link have failed. > > Am I doomed to use Numbers, simply because it’s the only app that will read > those headers while navigating? Or has someone developed scripts to handle > it? Help! > > Dave Carlson > Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian > > > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/ED262595-57CC-41CB-A44D-C82CC564D116%40sbcglobal.net. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/7149223F-6663-44AD-9A22-C923E4C357C0%40gmail.com.
