Hi Nick, I agree with you that it isn’t obvious to a VO user, there needs to be some work on this sort of thing. I haven’t used the text box feature much but played around with it a little. When in the Toolbar, press on the Text button. You’ll be given some choices of what kind of text element you’d like, for which I chose Header. I then navigated to the Sheet area where a new text box had been placed and I was able to enter text into it. In the Formatter area, I was able to modify some attributes including the width of the header. I had no-one around to visually confirm the alignment of the header so I just used mouse-keys to attempt a rough guess. The left corner appeared to be over column “e” and the right corner appeared to be over column “H” so I assuming that it centers headers over the Table. As far as I could tell, this did what I expected but the limitation would come if you wanted to specifically place your header over some group of columns. I’m not sure how we would accomplish that.
Sorry, I’m not a huge help here. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 21, 2014, at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Tim, > > Yes, and if in the situation you outline I enter text in B1 or C1 then the > text in A1 changes. > > However, even though this has technically worked properly, and probably looks > fine to sighted people, it doesn't make a lot of sense to a VoiceOver user. > If I or another VoiceOver user comes across an empty cell, our first > inclination is probably that the cell is empty, not that it is merged with a > neighbouring cell. > > That in mind, do you know of any work arounds? I was thinking potentially of > using a text box as a higher level heading rather than a merged cell. Do you > know how to use text boxes in Numbers? > > Thanks for your help! > > Nic > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
