Sounds like what I was wanting . Thanks. I guess that now that activities are available in OS X this would also help.
Sent from my iPhone On 02/09/2011, at 12:21 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Garth, > > If you create a template with all the settings you normally use along with > the hot keys, you can just open the template and Pages will be launched and > you'll be in the document. No setting up to do anymore. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 1 Sep 2011, at 14:41, Garth Humphreys wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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