[macvoiceover] Re: Bulleted list in Pages

  • From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 21:44:29 -0600

Well, I'm going to write to Apple accessibility as well!

Thanks Ian,

Russell
Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!

On 2012-08-03, at 9:40 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just checked iText Express, and the same things as in Pages. The list style 
> menu button menu tells me there are bullets, but nothing from VO.
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 2012-08-03, at 9:31 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ian,
>> 
>> If you create the bullets in Pages and export the document to a Word 
>> document, and then open that Word document in Text Edit, VO doesn't read the 
>> bullets... very odd... why will VO read bullets created in Text Edit, but 
>> not those created in pages?  
>> 
>> Russell
>> Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!
>> 
>> On 2012-08-03, at 9:27 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks much, that's a big help. As a work-around I did all my other 
>>> formatting, then exported as a Word doc, as thats' the format it needed to 
>>> end up in, then opened it up in Text Edit. I did the bullets in tehre and 
>>> VO read them so I knew they were there.
>>> 
>>> So VO can read bullets in Text Edit, I wonder why it can't read them in 
>>> Pages?
>>> 
>>> I'll fire it off to accessibility to see what they say.
>>> 
>>> Ian
>>> 
>>> On 2012-08-03, at 9:22 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Ian,
>>>> 
>>>> If you go into the inspector and choose the "Text" tab, and, then the 
>>>> "List" tab, there will be a section for Bullets and numbering, and then a 
>>>> popup where you can choose either image or text bullets, and then a list 
>>>> of the different types of each you can choose from.  What I did was to 
>>>> select  a list of words in Pages and then I went into the inspector and 
>>>> chose the type of bullets I wanted and then closed the inspector.  The 
>>>> only thing is that there's no way to tell with VO that the text in 
>>>> question has bullets... VO doesn't read this info.  The only way to find 
>>>> out is to place the cursor on the line you wish to check, press Command 
>>>> Option I to go to the inspector, and VO right arrow to the popup and see 
>>>> what it says.  If you chose image bullets, this will be what shows in the 
>>>> popup.  If you go to  a line that you didn't bullet and go to the 
>>>> inspector, the popup will say "None".  I exported this document to a PDF 
>>>> and Word file and emailed both to my laptop running Window 7.  I opened 
>>>> both documents, and, Jaws reads both the text and image bullets in the 
>>>> Word document, however, Jaws reads only the text bullets in the PDF, but 
>>>> not the image bullets.  So, I know for sure that the bullets are there.
>>>> 
>>>> It's sort of a pain... I wish VO would read the bullets, but, at least for 
>>>> me in Pages, it doesn't.
>>>> 
>>>> HTH
>>>> 
>>>> Russell
>>>> Sent from my iMac running Mountain Lion!
>>>> 
>>>> On 2012-08-02, at 5:27 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> How does one make a bulleted list in Pages? I found something in the 
>>>>> inspector that seemed like it formats list bullets, but nothing on how to 
>>>>> tell a chunk of text to be a bulleted list?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a way to display styles, and if so is bulleted list a style?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ian
>>>>> 
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