Question: If you turn on hot spot watching on that field, does it announce changes?
Thanks, Jonathan On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Paul, > > To check on any dynamic text that's inaccessible to VoiceOver in Pages, > create a shortcut for the Services menu option for "New TextEdit Window > Containing Selection", and the hidden text will show up in TextEdit. > > As for having VoiceOver tell you when there is a style change, this is not > currently possible. However, you can check on the style by setting hotspots > on the style tables and using the "Describe item at hotspot" commands. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 22 Jul 2011, at 18:43, Paul Hopewell wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am using Pages on Lion with VoiceOver and need to create numbered and >> bulleted lists. I followed the instructions in the help i.e. set automatic >> lists on in preferences, type say 1 followed by period and space and then >> the list item which might span several lines. then press return and type the >> second list item and so on. to terminate the list press return twice. >> >> When I do this the numbers of the list items do not appear in the document >> and I am thus not sure what has happened. Similarly when I try a bulleted >> list the bullets do not appear. Is there any way to check that the numbers >> and bullets are really there? Also if I check the cursor offset when it is >> positioned on the first character of each line it seems that pressing return >> twice does not exit the list. >> >> So do numbered and bulleted lists really work as advertised in Pages on >> Lion? Ideally I would prefer to use styles from the styles drawer to create >> lists and headings and so on in my document and ideally have VoiceOver speak >> the current style whenever that style changes as you arrow around your >> document. However I could not get this to work. >> >> I would thus appreciate any tips on creating Pages documents with headings >> and lists using VoiceOver. >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Paul Hopewell >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
