Hi Phil, Export your Keynote or PowerPoint presentations as PDF files and use an application called Skim to give the presentation under VoiceOver control. You'll want to set the "View" menu option for Skim to "Presentation" (shortcut Command-Option-P), and before you do that you might want to set up any "Presentation Options…" you might want (shortcut Command-Control-T), such as the time a slide is displayed, kind of transition, etc. Then you'll be able to advance through your presentation by pressing the space bar, or by using the left and right arrow keys if you want to move a few slides backwards or forwards. You should also be able to control the presentation with an Apple Remote if you have one. (This is an IR remote that is currently included with the Apple TV, and that used to be included with MacBooks, Mac Minis, and some other models before early 2008. Button directions are on a circular wheel. You can likely use other presentation remotes, too, or separately purchase the Apple Remote.)
Skim is a free download from: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ It operates like Preview, but with some extra features. You can find a discussion of this topic in the Mail Archive -- a secondary list archive for this list -- and read down the thread posts with the access key combinations Control+N for next post and Control+P for previous post in the thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg15816.html You can also use different access keys (Alt+N instead of Control+N, for Internet Explorer instead of Safari, for example) if you are using different web browsers. The Mail Archive pages also have nice search options, so you can either Option+Tab or Tab to the search box at the top of the page, and type in your search terms. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 8, 6:46 am, Phil StephensonPhil wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if I can successfully use Keynote with voiceover. > At this stage I'm only after viewing and presenting presentations that > have been created by other people but I may want to move on to > editing / creating my own. > > If this is possible can anyone point me to somewehre where I can find > some help files or tutorials as ideally I have a presentation I need > to do on Sunday and need to know if I can use Keynote to do this. > > Thanks as ever, > > Phil -- 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.
