[macvoiceover] Re: Pages and VoiceOver

  • From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:01:25 -0500

Hi,

All I heard was people singing and playing a guitar.  Scratching my head.

Ricardo Walker
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On Jan 13, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

> Hello. See the podcast at http://gwenna.podbean.com as she does a pocast on 
> pages. 2 of them actually.
> 
> Take care.
> On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Ray Campbell wrote:
> 
>> Hello:
>> 
>> I'm working with a client who is in school, and probably will need to write 
>> papers.  He uses a MacBook with VoiceOver.  I thought the Pages application 
>> would be a good word processing App for him to use for writing papers.  When 
>> I open up an existing Pages publication, it comes up and I can read it with 
>> VO.  However, when I bring up a new Pages document, I can't seem to find 
>> where you type in text.  I first get a dialog that asks me to choose which 
>> template I want to use.  When I choose, all I can see is a tool bar, scroll 
>> area, and a few other controls but no area that is obvious where I can type 
>> in text.
>> 
>> I was looking at Pages because I'm not sure Text Edit is robust enough for 
>> doing college level papers with all kinds of fonts, formatting, bolding, 
>> underlining and stuff like that.  So my question is, is anyone using Pages 
>> successfully for heavy word processing?  If not, what are you using?  I've 
>> thought about OpenOffice, but I understand that Office for Mac isn't 
>> accessible with VoiceOver.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ray Campbell, Adaptive Technology Help Desk Technician, The Chicago 
>> Lighthouse
>> ray.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 
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