[macvoiceover] Re: tables in text documents

  • From: Suzanne Erb <suzerb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 21:10:26 -0400

That makes sense to me.  But, has anyone used Keynote much?  I've been able to 
figure out some things, but there are many things I have not been able to do 
yet.
I'm trying to do it for work, so my time is limited.
Thanks so much.
Suzanne
On May 3, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think the problem is, Voiceover doesn't recognize tables in the documents.  
> So the commands might be worthless in this case.
> 
> Ricardo Walker
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> On May 3, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Marcy Weinberg <rhymingmom1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> There are table commands.  Are you using them?
>> 
>> On May 3, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Ian Edwards wrote:
>> 
>> If you haven't yet told Apple accessibility about your need for support of 
>> tables in word processor documents, please do so.
>> 
>> Tables are well supported on the web, and while I know that's a different 
>> animal to tame, it shows they can be clever enough to figure it out when 
>> they put energy-into it. 
>> 
>> This speaks to the need for VoiceOver to mature and evolve in response to 
>> the needs of users, so users need to let 'em know what we need.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Ian
>> 
>> On 2012-05-03, at 9:30 AM, Suzanne Erb wrote:
>> 
>>> I've been wondering the same thing.  I thought it might just be my problem, 
>>> and that I hadn't figured it out yet.  
>>> Suzanne
>>> On May 2, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Ashley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I was wondering about the status of voiceover support for reading tables 
>>>> in text (or other word-processing) documents or in presentations. Unless 
>>>> I'm missing something, voiceover doesn't appear to have any table support 
>>>> in these types of files. If this is the case, perhaps this is something 
>>>> more of us should be reporting to accessibility, before mountain lion gets 
>>>> released? It may not be a feature everybody uses, but for a screen reader 
>>>> to not support it in 2012 is just not productive.
>>>> 
>>>> thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> ash
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