Re: Fixed Date In Pages Document

Hello Dane, If you create a template for your shopping list, you can insert a date field that will be set to today’s date each time you open the template. Go to the Insert menu and choose Date & Time. Press Return (by default, Pages takes the Date and Time format from the Full definition in Syst

Re: Fixed Date In Pages Document

Hello Nic, The normal Date field in the Insert menu works fine, it’s just date fields in predefined templates that are flaky. Cheers, Anne On 31 Jan 2014, at 04:43, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I think at this stage you need to update the date manually. Some word > processors allow you to in

Re: Fixed Date In Pages Document

Hello Nic, The date is set to today if you open a template, but once a document is saved as a Pages document, it retains the date. This is normal behaviour. Cheers, Anne On 1 Feb 2014, at 07:19, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I think the date fields have been fixed in the new version of Pages. O

Re: drawing a blank on how to rid myself of the preview pain

Hello Sarah, I did this yesterday with a student. Navigate to the horizontal splitter and bring the mouse. Make sure that track pad commander is off. Press down on the track pad with one finger and stroke down the track pad with another finger. This should drag the horizontal splitter to the b

Re: drawing a blank on how to rid myself of the preview pain

Hello Caitlyn, When the preview pane is there, VO users can’t leave any messages unopened as just the fact of landing on a message, opens it. Without the preview pane, we can choose whether or not to open a message. Cheers, Anne On 5 Feb 2014, at 23:20, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: > Ok, why

Re: drawing a blank on how to rid myself of the preview pain

anks so much! > Cait > > On Feb 7, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Caitlyn, >> >> When the preview pane is there, VO users can’t leave any messages unopened >> as just the fact of landing on a message, opens it. Without the preview >>

Re: reading books on the mac with Ibooks.

Hello Stuart, I’m no expert with iBooks, but this is how I make it work for me. When I open iBooks, I’m on Library list where I can interact and select a book. I press Cmd-o and the book opens. This is where it gets complicated. When you first open a book, it will open at the beginning. You have

Re: language roter on the mac

Hello Laurel, The VO-Cmd-Arrow keys commands stay on the attribute last used. So for me, changing languages is just as quick as on the iPhone since I just have to do VO-Cmd-Down Arrow to change the language. Out of curiosity, I tried creating a track pad gesture to Decrease speech attribute va

Re: Shortcut key for page up

Hello Margaret, The VO command for Page up or Page down is VO-FN-Up arrow or down arrow. You must be interacting with the text for this to work and you need to have TextEdit set to Wrap to page. Unfortunately, with Wrap to page set, the normal arrow keys without the VO keys no longer work after

Re: Shortcut key for page up

Hello Chris, You can set TextEdit to Wrap to window and all the normal arrow keys work, or you can use the VO keys, so VO-Down Arrow will read the next line, or you can use Quick Nav and set it to Line. With Wrap to page set, the VO commands for next sentence, next Paragraph, and so on work ju

Re: Shortcut key for page up

ginal Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" > To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:58 PM > Subject: Re: Shortcut key for page up > > > Hello Chris, > > You can set TextEdit to Wrap to window and all the normal arrow

Re: Shortcut key for page up

Hello Frank, FN-Up Arrow or down arrow is purely visual and does not work for VO users. It does not move the insertion point, mouse pointer or VO cursor. That’s why we have to use the VO command VO-FN-Up or Down Arrow. Cheers, Anne On 16 Feb 2014, at 08:28, Frank Ventura wrote: > Try FN pl

Re: foot notes and the pages app

Hello Sarah, When you insert a footnote, VoiceOver announces it as a link in the document but does not recognise it as such. When you encounter a footnote in your text, navigate to it and press VO-Space to read the footnote itself. To return to your document, interact with the footnote, go to F

Re: foot notes and the pages app

oth. lol! or if I need > both I'll do both. depending if I need to insert a long note about what ever > in to the paper.. > > Take care and thanks again. > On Feb 16, 2014, at 12:37 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Sarah, >> >> When you insert a foot

Re: foot notes and the pages app

; Another question from a visual perspective. > > If I do use both footnotes and end notes what will they see visually and > will they be able to tell what Im doing with out getting confused? > > Take care. > On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello

Pages, pasting in a signature file

Hello all Pages users, The standard way of inserting a signature in Pages is problematic and VO users can’t find out where it is. I’ve found a way to place the signature file correctly. Navigate to the place where you want to paste your signature. Locate your signature file in the Finder then

Re: Pages, pasting in a signature file

n a signature file? > I'm a bit behind the times when it comes to pages and how to use it. lol! > > Take care. > On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello all Pages users, >> >> The standard way of inserting a signature in Pages is pr

Re: Pages, pasting in a signature file

p four pasting in a signature file on > the iOS platform? This would be so useful for me! > > Thanks, > Sandy > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 22 Feb 2014, at 07:45, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Sarah, >> >> Many of us have an image file

Re: Pages, pasting in a signature file

ol! >> >> Take care. >> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello all Pages users, >>> >>> The standard way of inserting a signature in Pages is problematic and VO >>> users can’t find out where it is. I’ve found

Re: Line Spacing and Documents

Line spacing is under Style in the Text Formatter. You have to interact with the scroll area to find where to adjust this. Cheers, Anne On 25 Feb 2014, at 23:37, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > I believe double spacing in pages is in the inspector. That's all I know and > I'm only guessing from ot

Re: foot notes and the pages app

ore question. Will these end notes export correctly if I export to .doc > or .docs? or what ever else pages offers? > > Take care and thanks again. > On Feb 16, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Sarah, >> >> You can’t have both footnotes and en

Re: Giraffe Stand for Use with iPhone and OCR UK Supplier

Hello Eleanor, I don’t see a price for this product. Have you any further information? Cheers, Anne On 6 Mar 2014, at 16:57, Eleanor Burke wrote: > If you are looking for an OCR solution at a reasonable price, Sam Jewell has > designed a stand to get exact distance from camera to the print

Re: Giraffe Stand for Use with iPhone and OCR UK Supplier

ocking the illumination of the page. > > The developer's Twitter page is: https://twitter.com/SOJewell > > The currently minimal product web page for sign-up is: > http://giraffereader.launchrock.com/ > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Mar 6, 2014,

Re: Giraffe Stand for Use with iPhone and OCR UK Supplier

Hello everyone, The price of the Giraffe Reader in the euro zone is €33.25 and will be shipped Articles for the blind, so no charge. I’m ordering one for myself and will report back as soon as I have it. Cheers, Anne On 6 Mar 2014, at 22:03, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Esther, >

Giraffe Reader

Hello everyone, My Giraffe Reader arrived today. It’s amazingly light and small, and is easy to erect and fold away again. Below my signature is a paper I scanned using TextGrabber with flash on. The paper is an English exam for French nursing students. Cheers, Anne 2008, GP figures show.

Re: Giraffe Reader

Hello Sarah, Esther has described the Giraffe Reader very well. It is extremely light and measures 26 cm by 21 cm or about 10.5 in by 8.5 in. It isn’t as stable as the StandScan Pro but is even more portable. I can see myself using it in restaurants to read the menu, which would be rather diffi

Re: Giraffe Reader

me shipping won't take that > long. > > thanks for the explanation. i've just behind the times thats all lol! > > Take care and be blessed. > On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Sarah, >> >> Esther has described the

Re: Giraffe Reader

th > finereader for the mac. > > Best regards Annie. > Den 13/03/2014 kl. 17.34 skrev Anne Robertson : > >> Hello everyone, >> >> My Giraffe Reader arrived today. It’s amazingly light and small, and is easy >> to erect and fold away again. Below my signatur

Re: Giraffe Reader

erday, because I will buy one and try it out, >>> but I have not got any answer. I asked him about the 5s too, but I have >>> heard nothing. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. >>> Den 14/03/2014 kl. 09.15 skrev Anne Robertson : >>> >>>> Hel

Re: Track Pad Settings

Hello Eleanor, I’m wondering whether your problem might not be Mission Control. I always disable Mission Control as I find it useless for me and it has a tendency to interfere with other functions. You can disable it by going into System Preferences, Mission Control, and setting all its short c

Re: Track Pad Settings

Hello Eleanor, Mission Control is a way of managing open applications and organising them into Spaces. Since VoiceOver does not take account of Spaces (groups of applications used together for a given task), Mission Control is useless to us. So this is why I disable Mission Control on my comput

Re: Track Pad Settings

Yes. Mission Control often interferes, especially while editing a text document. It’s all too easy to hit a wrong key from time to time, or not to press all the keys of a command at once, and to find that something unexpected has happened. Cheers, Anne On 26 Mar 2014, at 09:20, Eleanor Burke

Re: Track Pad Settings

gt; >> Http://www.clgproductions.com >> >> 704-256-0067 >> >> Hours: Nonday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern accept >> holidays. >> >>> On Mar 26, 2014, at 1:15, Anne Robertson wrote: >>> >>> Hello Eleanor

Re: Track Pad Settings

explain the key strokes for system preferences? > > Best wishes > > Henry > > > -Original Message- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: 26 March 2014 06:45 > To: O

Re: Track Pad Settings

The Dashboard is where you find all your widgets. Widgets are tiny applications that are very simple to use. There are a dozen or more preinstalled widgets such as Weather, Contacts, Calculator, etc. The default short cut is F12. You find the installed widgets by opening the Dashboard and pressi

Re: How Do I Tell IF A Programme Has Installed

Hello Eleanor, You can find all the applications installed on your system in your Applications folder. You open this folder with Cmd-Shift-a. Cheers, Anne On 29 Mar 2014, at 22:26, Eleanor Burke wrote: > I downloaded a programme to my Dropbox and from there installed it but I do > not know

Re: Dock oddities

Hello Will, The Add to dock command is Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-t. Cheers, Anne On 12 Apr 2014, at 14:44, William Lomas wrote: > hi to all > > in mac osx 10.9 we cannot seem to simply put an app on the dock directly from > the apps folder, without having to open it first, to right click it, to tell

Re: Pages query

Selecting and copying text in Pages for Mavericks works just fine for me and I use it a lot. Cheers, Anne On 16 Apr 2014, at 17:29, isaac wrote: > I just did a test on this with pages and copied the text to the clipboard and > pasted it in to another app and nothing was missing. I am not su

Re: mac focusing issues under 10.9

I find that setting the mouse to ignore the other cursors prevents troublesome focusing issues. Cheers, Anne On 19 Apr 2014, at 19:32, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > I have never had that issue. Check your curser tracking to see if it is off > if it is utrn it on. You can do this quickly wiht vo

Re: Not able to disable the preview pane on a new iMac

Hello Frank, In Mavericks, double-clicking on the splitter no longer works. You have to hold down the physical mouse and drag the splitter to the bottom if it’s a horizontal splitter, or to the far right if it’s a vertical splitter. If you’re in Classic view, it will be the horizontal splitter

Re: prizmo

Hello Judy, To get the Giraffe Reader, go to: http://www.giraffe-reader.com To get the StandScan Pro Power Bundle: The Giraffe Reader weighs 70 g and can fit into a large handbag. It unfolds in s

Re: Tesco on the Mac - Verified by Visa

Hello David, Although Tesco isn’t of interest to me as I live in France, I know of other sites where the contents of the page change without me hearing the page loaded sound. What I usually do on pages that puzzle me is use the Web Rotor to investigate the form controls. I find the Web Rotor to

Re: Blind square

Hello Bill, I use BlindSquare and love it. It updates me on where I am and tells me about nearby intersections. I use it when walking and on buses. It uses quite a bit of battery power and you have to remove it from the app switcher to stop it but it runs beautifully in the background so you ca

Re: Widgets

Hello Graham, The command to close a widget is now VO-Cmd-Escape. Cheers, Anne On 7 Jun 2014, at 17:06, Graham Smith wrote: > I have just listened to David Woodbridge’s podcast on the dashboard and > unless its me, some of the keystrokes have obviously changed in later > versions of Maveri

Re: My clean install so far

Hello John, For as long as VoiceOver has existed, it has been possible to install Mac OS X without sighted help. Back in the days of Tiger, Braille was not available, but since Leopard, we’ve had Braille too during installation. Cheers, Anne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To repl

Re: Reading A Document in Pages

Cmd-f works fine, too. Also, why not create an activity with low verbosity and other tweaks to keep extra information to a minimum? Cheers, Anne <--- 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 an archive o

Re: VO Announcing Page Numbers in Pages When Reading A Document

Hello Eleanor, If you navigate through a Pages document by sentence or paragraph, VO wil announce the page number as you go on to a new page. If you use VO-a to read continuously, you’ll hear the page change sound but no page number will be announce. However, if you pause the reading, VO-F3 wil

Re: Pages - Reading A document

Hello Eleanor, I’m wondering what kinds of documents you’re reading. Placeholder text is text that is meant to be replaced. You navigate to it with just the arrow keys and start typing the replacement text when VO says “Highlighted”. So, it’s quite important information that you’re getting. Ch

Re: Reading A Document in Pages

Hello Eleanor, When I use Cmd-f to find text, I click the Done button and I’m back in the text with the first result of the Find highlighted. To find the next occurrence, I press Cmd-g and the next one is highlighted. As far as I know, all Mac Find commands use the letter ‘g’ to go straight to

Pasting signature into letter in Pages

Hello everyone, I think we’ve finally cracked this problem. You can’t find out exactly where your signature is on the page, but you can know where it is relative to the body of the letter and your name. To insert a scanned signature file, copy the appropriate image file to the clipboard and pa

Re: Connecting Focus Blu 40 to Mac Book Air

Hello Eleanor, You configure Braille settings in the VoiceOver Utility, first of all in the Braille category, then in Verbosity under Braille. Cheers, Anne On 17 Jul 2014, at 16:27, Eleanor Martha Burke wrote: > Hi, I have plugged in my Focus Blu 40 and at least I know it works! Now how

Re: Focus Blu now Connecting Via Bluetooth

Hello Eleanor, In VoiceOver Utility, go down to the second from last category which is Braille. Select Layout. You’ll find several check boxes such as Use 8-dot Braille, and others. Then select the Verbosity category and select Braille. Set Braille verbosity to either low or medium. Cheers, A

Re: Focus Blu now Connecting Via Bluetooth

Hello Eleanor, All the commands that are programmed into your Braille display show up in a table when you click the Assign Commands… button in the VoiceOver Utility, category Braille, Displays tab. You can add VoiceOver commands if you find that you need to. To find the table, just press VO-Dow

Re: How do I type letters with accents over them?

Hello Andy, Your keyboard is already British English. The Mac keyboard is different from a PC keyboard so the @ sign is where it should be, over the 2. Just use VO-k to find where all the keys are. If you’re typing in another language, you can add the keyboard layout for that language in Syste

Re: Mac Keyboard Key and Word Echo

Hello Isaac, It’s a very bad idea to have VoiceOver announce when a modifier key is pressed as it prevents the use of the command “Copy last phrase to clipboard”. Cheers, Anne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-acces

Re: More E-mail Questions

Hello Eleanor, VoiceOver saying “Misspelt” is an option. You need to spend some time going through the VoiceOver Utility and looking at all the settings. Pay particular attention to the Verbosity category, especially the Text tab. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2014, at 12:27, Eleanor Martha Burke

Re: Should I move to Mavericks?

Hello Gordon, Your iBooks are stored here: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/ As for everyone moving to Mavericks, there are features of iWork09 that are still missing from the new versions of the apps and you can’t install iWork09 under Mavericks from the orig

Re: Verbosity in E-mail

Hello Eleanor, Press VO-V then navigate right until you hear Text Attributes. use the up or down arrow to find DO Nothing, then press Return. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jul 2014, at 20:17, Eleanor Burke wrote: > It hasn’t made any difference when I change to minimum, it is still reading > out ever

Re: how do i go about removing mail preview pane using mavrics?

Hello Michael, Things have changed in Mavericks. You must turn Trackpad commander off. Navigate to the horizontal splitter with VO; Bring the mouse; Press down on the trackpad with one finger while stroking downwards with another finger. Sometimes, it takes several attempts to get this right an

Re: How can I stop streadsheets opening in Numbers at the top cell all the time?

Hello Andy, As far as I know, you can’t change this behaviour. But what’s so difficult about doing Cmd-down Arrow to get to the last row? Alternatively, you can do VO-Shift-End to get to the last cell. Cheers, Anne On 16 Aug 2014, at 11:14, Andy Collins wrote: > Hi all - > > When I open a

Re: How can I stop streadsheets opening in Numbers at the top cell all the time?

h time I open a spreadsheet, > I land in the layout area. I have to hit VO shift down arrow twice to > actually get in to the body of the spreadsheet. Once there, I can’t do CMD > down arrow to get to the end of the spreadsheet as mentioned above - > > Andy > > On 16 Aug 2

Re: How can I stop streadsheets opening in Numbers at the top cell all the time?

s: > Table 1 table has been removed from selection. > > At this point, I was able to access my spreadsheet, but CMD down arrow, which > hasn’t been reassigned to do something different, just gave me the ding sound > - > > Andy > On 16 Aug 2014, at 16:28, Anne Robertson

Re: How can I stop streadsheets opening in Numbers at the top cell all the time?

Hello Andy, You should repair permissions after installing new software and after updates. People who only use their Macs for simple tasks can get away with not repairing permissions, but as soon as you start using more complex programs such as Numbers, you’re going to encounter anomalous behav

Re: How can I stop streadsheets opening in Numbers at the top cell all the time?

pan permissions and how is this done please > >> On 16 Aug 2014, at 18:09, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Andy, >> >> You should repair permissions after installing new software and after >> updates. >> >> People who only use their Mac

Re: iBooks

Hello Gordon, Here’s where to find your iBooks: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/ Unfortunately, the names are not meaningful and the file type is epub. As far as I know, you can only open them in iBooks, unless you created them yourself, in which case, you c

Re: Useable PDF editor?

Hello Christian, >From what I’ve read elsewhere, PDFPen Pro is mostly accessible and the >developer is tryhing to make it better still. I believe you can get a trial >version from the developer’s website which seems a good idea as the app itself >is expensive. Here’s the link for the download:

Re: Another question about pages

Hello Marcos, To adjust line spacing, go to the Formatter and select Style. You’ll find what you need in the scroll area. As for adding a page number, decide where you want your page number to be then interact with that area. I tried with the right-hand side of the header. Once in the right pl

Re: iWorks package

Hello Ian, Once you’ve got iWork on one of your machines, you can get it on all your machines. I think it appears in your purchased items. Cheers, Anne On 14 Oct 2014, at 13:07, Ian Harrison wrote: > Hi listers. > I've just got i Works included in my new macbook air. Lucky me. Can I

Re: iworks again

Hello Ian, When you set up your new MBA, did you enter your Apple ID? if so, as soon as there is an update to these applications, they should be detected on your MBA and then associated with your Apple ID. At least, I think that’s how it works! Cheers, Anne On 16 Oct 2014, at 18:17, Ian Harr

Pages 5.5: access to paragraph styles menus lost again

Hello everyone, I’ve installed Yosemite as I heard good things about it, and I got the iWork updates. Unfortunately, in Pages, the menu buttons to the right of the Paragraph styles is no longer accessible using VoiceOver. We now have to use the mouse or Mouse keys to get to it and click it. For

Re: [Mac-access]: a quick pages question

If you’re using Yosemite and the latest Pages, VO misreports a section break as a page break. There is no short cut for section break so you have to do it from the Insert menu. Also, Enter is not Return. The short cut for page break is Cmd-Enter which is Cmd-FN-Return on a laptop keyboard. When

Re: [Mac-access]: a quick pages question

OK, you’re inserting a section and not a section break. By default, that means adding a section at the end of the document. If you insert a section break instead, you can then redefine the part of the document that comes after the section break. I think you must have created that short cut your

Re: [Mac-access]: Sorting finder with folders on top on mac?

Hello Eleanor, The Finder is the application that manages the storage of files and folders whatever the application that created them. On a Mac, it is a bad idea to put lots of icons on the desktop as they all get loaded into memory when the computer is booted and can therefore slow down the m

Re: [Mac-access]: Sorting finder with folders on top on mac?

It’s best to use the Dock for aliases. Personally, I don’t bother with them as it’s so easy to locate any files or folders I want by using the first letter or two of the name. I’m really pretty organised when it comes to storing files. Also, don’t forget that it’s easy to reorganise the Dock so

Re: [Mac-access]: work around for the voice over selection bug in pages?

Hello Sarah, That workaround was for TextEdit, not Pages. I have absolutely no idea how to select large chunks of text in Pages. I tried everything I could think of this morning with no success. Sorry not to be of help. Cheers, Anne > On 4 Nov 2014, at 21:04, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > > He

Re: [Mac-access]: Accented letters on a Mac

Hello Andy, You get accented letters by using the Option key with various letters. Option-e - accute accent; Option-i - Circumflex; Option-u - diresis also known as umlaut; Option-Accent sign - grave accent; Option-q - OE diphthong. Do you need any others? Cheers, Anne > On 4 Nov 2014, at 21:1

Re: [Mac-access]: Accented letters on a Mac

Hello Andy, Option-e gives an accute accent as a dead key, so you can type any appropriate lettre afterwards and the accute accent will be applied to it. This is true of all the other accents I gave you. However, if you’re typing a lot of Spanish, why not add the Spanish keyboard layout in Sys

Re: [Mac-access]: Can anyone else reproduce this pages bug

Hello Sarah, I’m not having this problem. VoiceOver reads for footnote2 "link Footnote 2”. Of course, VO doesn’t actually recognise what it calls links as links, so the next link command doesn’t work. I’m running Yosemite version 10.10 (14A389) also. Cheers, Anne . > On 5 Nov 2014, at 20:17,

Re: [Mac-access]: Can anyone else reproduce this pages bug

Hello Nick, The version of Pages that came out this week does not break footnotes! I just tested it. You can still rename tables, too. Cheers, Anne <--- 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 an archi

Re: [Mac-access]: Can anyone else reproduce this pages bug

Hello Nick, Have you tried the Move Mouse application? Here’s the link to it: > This avoids the need to turn on Mouse keys. It doesn’t work in pop overs but it does work for renaming tables. I set t

Re: [Mac-access]: switching keyboards on the Mac

Hello Mary, I just press Cmd-Space to switch keyboards. To set this up, go to System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts. Select Input sources in the first table, then in the second table, check the checkbox for Select the previous input source. If you only have two keyboards, this will work as a to

mac-access@mac-access.net

Hello, Find and Replace works the same way whatever the application. Press Cmd-f then navigate to the Options button if replace is not currently available. Having entered the text to be found and the replacement text, click Done then press Escape. Cheers, Anne > On 11 Nov 2014, at 20:57, Is

Re: [Mac-access]: i think I might have found a problem with yosemite.

Hello Sarah, Holding down the C key is no longer the way to boot from an external source. You have to hold down the Option key then press right arrow twice. Cheers, Anne > On 16 Nov 2014, at 07:43, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > > Hello all. I was working on the final part of my Yosemite how to

[Mac-access]: Insertion point problem revisited

Hello all, I’ve had a look at the insertion point problem again and have discovered that what is being reported when pressing VO-F4-F4 is the actual position of the insertion point on the computer screen, not the position of the insertion point as it would appear on the printed page. As far as

Re: [Mac-access]: Creating a rsume in pages?

Hello Matthew, The text that is not in English is placeholder text in a form of Latin. Never navigate using Quick Nav in Pages as things will not behave correctly. You should interact with the document and navigate using the arrow keys. You should then find that the placeholder text is highligh

Re: [Mac-access]: Creating a rsume in pages?

Hello Matthew, In Pages, always make sure that Quick Nav is off. Interact with the various text areas and navigate just with the arrow keys. The placeholder text should be automatically highlighted as you navigate to it and will disappear as soon as you start typing. If ever you hear a wooshin

[Mac-access]: Pages and table of contents

Hello all, Another retrograde step in the new Pages. Under Mavericks, the table of contents formatter allowed a VoiceOver user to check or uncheck any elements in the table of contents. Since Yosemite and the latest Pages, those checkboxes are inaccessible with VO. However, there is a workarou

Re: [Mac-access]: Pages and table of contents

wrote: > > Ann, could you refresh our memories as to were we can get this “move mouse” > utility? A google search brought up a lot of somewhat ambiguous results. I’m > just starting to use Pages again and I think its time to get hold of this > mouse move utility. > thanks >

Re: [Mac-access]: Pages and table of contents

Hello Sarah, Of course I’ve e-mailed Accessibility. I always do, for what it’s worth. Cheers, Anne > On 29 Nov 2014, at 23:07, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > > have you emailed accessibil...@apple.com > with yoru findings? > > Take care. <--- Mac Access At Mac A

Re: [Mac-access]: Pages and table of contents

Hello Sarah, MoveMouse works just fine in Yosemite. You have to copy the MoveMouse Unix Executable File to the clipboard and then press Cmd-Shift-a and paste it there. You then have to go to Library and open Services. That’s where you paste the four work flows. You then open System Preferences

Re: [Mac-access]: Bold and italicized lettering

Hello Doug, You need to set Text Attributes to speak. Press VO-v then use right arrow to find Text Attributes. Use up or down arrow to find what you want, then press Return. Cheers, Anne > On 2 Dec 2014, at 18:52, Douglas wrote: > > Hey guys. I know you can script this with the other scree

Re: [Mac-access]: incerting a page break.

Hello Ian, Pages can give you the character count with or without spaces, word count, paragraph count and page count. Go to the View menu to find this. Cheers, Anne > On 6 Jan 2015, at 00:02, Ian McNamara wrote: > > Hi all is there anyway of inserting a page break in text edit. if so how d

Re: [Mac-access]: file format in pages question

Hello Cait, To save a Pages document in another format you need to use Export to which is in the File menu. The available formats are: PDF, Word, Plain Text, EPUB and Pages09. Cheers, Anne > On 6 Jan 2015, at 14:16, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > > hi, > How can I select a different file format f

Re: [Mac-access]: Voiceover and braille tables question

Hello, Apple uses the Duxberry Braille tables. Cheers, Anne <--- 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 an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive:

Re: [Mac-access]: Voiceover and braille tables question

> On 21 Mar 2015, at 19:17, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > So how do we either modify them, or create them, provided we have a windows > machine lying around, and that we have a copy of Duxberry? It would require an in-depth knowledge of the internal workings of Mac OS x to do that.

Re: [Mac-access]: Where to find complete list of keystrokes?

For the complete list of VoiceOver commands, press VO-h-h. I doubt there’s a complete list of Mac OS X commands as they are all shown beside their menu items. You can also look in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. Cheers, Anne > On 24 Mar 2015, at 13:41, Ann Byrne wrote: > > I am loo

[Mac-Access]: How to leave the list

Hello everyone, I’m not a moderator, so don’t shoot me down! I think this will work for leaving the list which is using SurgeMail. Send a message to: mac-access-lea...@mac-access.net The subject and body do not matter. Cheers, Anne

Re: [Mac-Access]: How to leave the list

ter the word leave. >> On 25 May 2015, at 08:31, Anne Robertson wrote:

Re: [Mac-Access]: help with pages

Hello Margaret, Have you tried Tim Sniffen’s free iBook, "Mastering the Macintosh with VoiceOver”? A lot of people have found it very useful and it covers using Pages. Cheers, Anne > On 25 May 2015, at 07:56, Margaret Booth wrote: > > I’m helping a friend of mine to learn how to use Pages o

Re: [Mac-Access]: voiceover automatic language detection on mac?

Hello Michael, You can change the voice on the fly by pressing VO-Cmd-Down Arrow as long as you leave the voice rotor on voice. I do this all the time between English and French. Cheers, Anne > On 25 May 2015, at 11:35, Michael Marshall wrote: > > hey all, > something has been bugging me e

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