If you are checking the word count often in your document, you can set a hot
spot for the word count.
For example press VO-Shift-5 to set hot spot five.
You can then check the contents of that hotspot with VO-command-5 without
losing your place.
THe VO-command (number) commands will read the hot spot in question and not
move any cursors.
I suppose if you doing this quite often it might be worth while setting a
commander to read the hot spot. Option-W or numpad minus are probably easier
for most people to type than the standard VO key.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Jan 18, 2022, at 14:05, Shannon Dyer <solsticesin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you so much! This worked perfectly!
>
> Shannon
>
>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 3:52 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When in your Pages document, stop interacting with the document area. Stop
>> interacting enough times to hear the tink noise, then VO-left once. You
>> should hear VO say “Word Count, X number of words.” If it does not, the
>> Word counter may not yet be visible, so press cmd-shift-w to make it
>> visible. Notice that it is announced as a menu item. This means that you
>> can VO-space on the word counter item and you will be presented with other
>> counters such as the character counter, line counter etc.
>>
>> Later…
>>
>>
>> Tim Kilburn
>> Jamf Certified Tech
>> Apple Professional Learning Specialist
>> Apple Teacher
>> (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 12:54, Shannon Dyer <solsticesin...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:solsticesin...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good afternoon all,
>>>
>>> I’ve been a Mac user for a number of years, but I’ve never been a fan of
>>> the word processor Pages. Now though, I need to familiarize myself with it
>>> and somehow get comfortable using it. I’m wondering if there are certain
>>> settings I need to tweak in order to make VoiceOver work well with the
>>> program. Right now, I can create, edit, and save documents, but when I ask
>>> for the word count to be displayed, I can’t actually get VoiceOver to read
>>> out the count. I’m guessing I’m doing something wrong, but I’m not sure
>>> exactly what that might be.
>>>
>>> I appreciate any help any of you might be able to offer.
>>>
>>> Shannon
>>>
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