Thank you so much Jim for your response. It's extremely helpful as always! Roseanne -----Original Message----- From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Fettgather Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 4:44 AM To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [real-eyes] Re: iPad accessibility Hello, although screens for some apps on the iPad are considerably different than their iPhone counterparts, most are completely accessible and work very well. Here's an excerpt from an AFB Access World article discussing using Pages on the iPad. iWork Pages iWork is a suite of three productivity apps that allow you to use the iPad for tasks that would normally be done on a computer in a work setting. Pages is the name of the word processor app, Numbers is the spread sheet app, and Keynote is the presentation tool used for creating and showing slide shows. Each app is available for $9.95 from the App Store. For this article, we had time to investigate only the Pages app, and we tested it to see how practical and accessible it is to use VoiceOver for word processing on the iPad. Pages is a fairly robust word processor, especially for a portable device. Among other things, it allows you to align text as you like, underline, bold, or italicize text, and cut, copy, and paste text. Reading, creating, editing, importing, and exporting documents are all accessible with VoiceOver. However, just as with the iBooks app, the problem is that you cannot select text in Pages using VoiceOver. Because of that, even though the buttons such as those for making text bold or centered are accessible, you cannot choose the text that you want bolded or centered. We tried this again using the wireless keyboard and it worked much better. Many of the commands used with VoiceOver on a Mac also work on the iPad using the wireless keyboard or the docking station keyboard, and many of the text-selection commands also work. There also are extra navigation options when using the keyboard, such as reading a word, character, line, or paragraph. Even though I have pointed out some weaknesses with iWork Pages, it still can be a useful tool. I recently attended a meeting to see how it might replace my traditional notetaker, and it did work relatively well. I had the meeting agenda in one file and my meeting notes in another. Although using the touch-typing method on the iPad was not quite as fast as I needed it to be, using the wireless keyboard was plenty fast. The experience was not quite as smooth as using my traditional notetaker, but it was certainly close. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- From: Roseanne Young Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 6:07 PM To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [real-eyes] iPad accessibility Hi all: I was wondering if anyone knows how accessible the iPad is for word processing tasks? Would a totally blind person be able to edit and format documents easily? If anyone has any experience or information about iPad accessibility, I'd appreciate any feed back. Thanks all! Roseanne To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes To subscribe or to leave the list, or to set other subscription options, go to www.freelists.org/list/real-eyes