[macvoiceover] Re: Pages and VoiceOver
- From: Ray Campbell <ray.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:05:32 +0000
Thanks. I'll have to try getting the podcast at home though as the podbean.com
website is blocked by the agency I work for.
Ray Campbell, Adaptive Technology Help Desk Technician
The Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
1850 W. Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608
312.997.3651 (Voice/Relay) or 888.825.0080 (Voice/Relay)
ray.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.chicagolighthouse.org
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[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 5:42 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Pages and VoiceOver
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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