Hi Anne I haven't had a chance yet to try this. Do all the hotkeys and hot spots you mention needing to set up remain between sessions? Or would you need to set these sort of things up each time?
If they are just a once off sort of customizing then I can see that you could be relatively efficient in creating the kind of document I mentioned. Are you able to tell Pages to skip the whole part where it wants you to pick a template and just go immediately in to a plain blank document? What you describe does sound do able but it sounds like you need to use a lot of VO specific hotkeys. I don't have to use any Jaws specific keystrokes to create the document I described. There is a single two finger keystroke to be dropped into editing mode of a blank word doc. A single 3 finger keystroke to put me into Heading level 1 I can then type the title and hit enter. I will be put back into normal text and then I can hit another single 3 finger keystroke to be in heading level 2 and so on. These are just standard windows and word keystrokes. I don't point this out to try and tell you how wonderful Windows is. But it does feel to me that the productivity applications on the Mac with VO need a lot of work before they are able to be taken seriously by the kinds of organizations who help buy computer equipment for blind and vision impaired people. Having said all this, I am still looking forward to getting a MBA soon but I just have the few mentioned concerns. Garth On 01/09/2011, at 1:01 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Garth, > > On 31 Aug 2011, at 16:28, Garth Humphreys wrote: >> >> >> A typical task for me would be a fairly simple document where I have a >> number of headings at various levels, ie 1, 2 and 3 with bodies of plain >> text in between. >> >> Starting from the desktop could you let me know how I would most quickly >> achieve the following. Bring up a new blank document, > Pages remembers the previous document type you chose. So if you always use a > blank document, that's what will be offered. So you'd just have to open > Pages, then go to last visible item and press VO-Space to choose it. > >> put in a heading at level one, another at level two, then another at level >> three. There would then be some body text and I would be putting in further >> headings at levels two and three with passages of text. > Before beginning to type your document, you would show the styles drawer > (Cmd-Shift-T) where you would set hot keys for the various styles. These hot > keys are F1-F8. You would then set a hotspot on the Paragraph Styles table. > Then you stop interacting, navigate right twice and interact with the scroll > area and the layout area. > > In your document, you just have to be in the paragraph to change its style by > pressing the hot key. You can check the style by pressing VO-Cmd-Number where > number is the hotspot number. > >> >> I would then want to check i had the formatting correct and that there were >> no spelling errors. > To check spelling, use Cmd-Semicolon. Each misspelled word will be > highlighted in turn. > > I hope this makes things a bit clearer. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > -- > 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.
