Yes, I had already described in my previous post what you explained below. The edit field has the same bug others had in the previous version of iOS where one could not read what was being typed in edit fields within the Contacts app.
Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Hardy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 5:53 PM Subject: RE: Looking for a user of the Numbers app Hi Joseph, This is pretty much true. Read-only access to spreadsheets works fairly well. Editing them is a bit trickier, though I've noticed that if you double-tap and hold on a cell and then do an additional double-tap gesture, you seem to get into editing mode and can change a cell. Without doing the first double-tap and hold, double tapping a cell simply selects it for further action. Given the fact that there are custom VO hints within the Numbers app, it seems clear that some accessibility has been implemented. However, I don't believe this accessibility is feature complete yet, and it isn't documented anywhere that I have been able to find. Grant -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph FreeTech Sent: June 27, 2014 5:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Looking for a user of the Numbers app Hi all, Since it was very unlikely I was going to get feedback on my question, I decided to simply buy the Numbers app and experiment on my own. Great news! For those looking to use spreadsheets like one does on Microsoft Excel, well, your search is over! ...Somewhat. <Smile>. I attached my iDevice to my desktop computer, and I very quickly and very easily imported an Office 2007 .xlsx spreadsheet into Numbers using iTunes. It was incredibly freakin easy! I then touched the center of the screen to find the grid containing my data and went about exploring it. I was able to breeze through all my data swiping left to right and up and down. For those who have used Excel, I was able to simulate the left and right arrow navigation as well as up and down arrow navigation through the spreadsheet as one would do in Excel 2007. For example, in my junk Excel spreadsheet, I created a column called Animals and am able to swipe down and review the following list of animals: Bear, Cat, Dog, Elephant, Frog. I then swiped to the right and am able to read the cells in the second column called Phone numbers: 555 444 6666, (777) 333-4444, 222.333.4444. No matter how the data was entered, it was read by VoiceOver; this held true for the other columns and rows of junk data. I'm really excited about this because this means I can now add tons of spreadsheets on to my iPod 5th gen! WooHoo! I've not tried any of Number's built-in functions, but I will say that editing a cell within a spreadsheet seems to have some problems as I cannot get any speech when I double-tap on an edit field and try to read the text letter by letter. Not a problem as I find it makes my life much easier to use my iDevice as a consumption tool rather than a production tool. With that, I need only structure my spreadsheet on my desktop then import via iTunes and all hassles solved--it takes mere seconds. <Smile>. Wow! I'm using my Excel spreadsheets on this little iDevice! Amazing! So far, so good. As far as the interface is concerned, most of what I have encountered is definitely accessible, but I'll experiment a bit more and let you know what is and what is not accessible. A very happy Joseph the free tech guy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph FreeTech" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:28 AM Subject: Re: Looking for a user of the Numbers app Hi Richard, Thank you for your post. I noticed you used the word "should." I'm actually looking for something a bit more concrete. I'm hoping someone will write back and state "yes, I can do it." Since I will be creating and structuring the spreadsheets, I will know the layout, so the content per each column and row is not likely to cause me confusion. I also plan on importing spreadsheets from Excel into Numbers, which means I plan on creating the spreadsheets using Excel on my Windows computer, but I'd like access to the information on the go on my iDevice. Thanks for your suggestions, Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Turner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 7:15 AM Subject: Re: Looking for a user of the Numbers app Hi Joseph, While you can use vertical navigation to go down a column, when you flick left or right between columns, you don't hear the column header, so as long as you know what column a, b c etc are, then it should work well enough for reading information. I've not been very successful in creating spreadsheets on my iPhone, but I have not spent a ton of time with it either. Maybe someone out there has figured out how to create sheets and will chime in. Oddly enough, if you turn the rotor to rows, it doesn't work, but vertical navigation does. HTH, Richard "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education." - Victor Hugo Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 27, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Joseph FreeTech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to begin using the Numbers app on my iOS device, but since it is > $10, I thought I'd save myself some cash and a couple of hours of > experimenting in the event it is not accessible, so here I am tapping into > the pool of knowledge on the list. <Smile>. > > I recall listening to a podcast where the presenter stated he could only > use > Numbers by swiping to the right and left and could not read down a column > of > cells as one would do in Excel when using up and down arrows. > > If someone out there has Numbers installed on his or her iDevice, will you > please convey whether you are able to use the rotor to switch to "vertical > navigation" mode then swipe down a column of numbers? > > The goal here is to be able to quickly swipe from left to right and vice > versa on any given row to locate a column, then I would like to use the > vertical navigation to swipe up and down to read each item within my > desired > column. > > I will be very, very grateful if someone can confirm whether this can be > done. > > Thank you, > > Joseph > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone > list. 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