[macvoiceover] Iwork 9: First impression and a question
- From: Jacob Schmude <j.schmude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:30:13 -0500
Hi everyone
I've just been playing around a bit with iWork 9 and over all, I'm
extremely impressed. Pages and Keynote are both very easily accessed,
my only gripe being that vo+t will reveal text attributes, but not
alignment. Oh well, it's easy enough to work around that one by
looking at the toolbar until that's fixed. Another small issue is that
backspacing in pages is sometimes reporting "new line" instead of the
character that was deleted. This only happens on occasion, usually on
the first line of a document and to me is hardly a big deal.
I am, however, having issues with Numbers. Arrowing around in the
sheet doesn't seem to yield any output and if I interact with the
table that displays the sheet and VO around, I can move. However, I
can here the columns but not the number of rows. If I Vo+lef or right,
for example, I'll hear "c, header cell" but if I arrow down or up in
the column I just here "cell." Also, I don't seem to be able to input
on the cell that VO is focused on, either by typing or pressing vo
+space to focus on it. I can route the mouse to it and double-click to
get the effect. Not having it read the cell row and column could get a
bit inconvenient if I'm using formulas and need to know which cells to
include in them. Further, double-clicking is useable but not as
efficient, especially when I know for a fact that arrowing left and
right is moving the cell highlight, it's just not speaking. On the
flip side, however, I love the row header and column header
announcement. If I put something in one of the row or column header
cells, it is read as I move across that row or column instead of the
letter, no need to move up to the header and verify I'm in the right
column. I'm guessing this is to take the place of cell coordinates
and for most cases it is actually a nice improvement, but is there a
way to get the coordinates if I need them? Is this the normal behavior
in Numbers or is my system acting up? And is their a shortcut to input
to the current cell without having to route mouse and double-click?
All cursor tracking settings are on except the mouse tracking, so
focus should be moving with the VO cursor. I'll report this to Apple
accessibility, but I wanted to know first if this is the normal
behavior in Numbers.
All in all, I'm quite impressed. I'll most certainly be buying it,
pages and keynote alone would be worth it and Numbers isn't unuseable
by any stretch.
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