Hi all, Gigi, thanks for the explanation. The tables were created by someone else. Actually I think what they did was scanned the docuement, converted it to word so I could get access to it. And I suspect this has thrown the formatting way off, which is my reason for asking the follow up question. I suspect there is a focus problem too, but I am not an experienced user. I am going to try the document in pages on my Ipad just to see if it will read a little better.
On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hi guys > I think that sometimes we are having a focus problem in Pages tables, but I > can't prove that. This seems to be more of a problem in either large tables > or if a table has been weirdly formatted, trust us VoiceOver users like me to > set up really strange things that sighted people would probably catch right > away and the programmers would never know about it. I have noticed that if I > accidentally insert columns in and then put things in weird places on my > table, that VoiceOver behaves weird. > > I have used two commands successfully in Tables, although sometimes you have > to mess with it to get it to work. I have used the tab key to go from cell to > cell. Also, and I don't get this, I have used vo enter to get into the first > cell in the table. For some reason, when I do that, it will let me use the > tab key to go around. > > It is real easy to accidentally insert columns in your table, and if you have > set the width to be skinny and you put in long text, it messes stuff up. > VoiceOver doesn't seem to like it either. If you press option right arrow you > are putting in a column to the right. If you do the opposite, you put in one > to the left. Of course, option down arrow puts in a row below, option up > arrow does the opposite, just like in Numbers. I think what happens is that > if you are doing the vo right or left arrow, and you make a mistake and > forget to press the control key, you have an extra column. You have to make > sure to listen to VoiceOver telling you how many columns you have. I have not > had a problem putting in extra rows, but I have done extra columns more than > once. > > You might want to check the widths you have set up in the table that didn't > work. I have files that have two tables, one small and the other one usually > larger. I didn't do much to format the smaller one, just took the defaults. > But the other one has three skinny columns and a fourth wider column, and I > have made it as big as I can get it. > > Gigi > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:01 PM, denise avant <denise.av...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Actually, I did interact with the tables. The first one went just fine. But >> not true for the second one, and so I wondered if there were other commands >> I needed to invoke. Is formatting of a table or lack thereof a contributing >> factor? >> Thanks. >> >> On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> When you find a table, interact with it. From there, the usual vo-arrow key >>> commands will move you around the cells, and you can stop interacting to >>> return to the full document. >>> On Sep 4, 2014, at 7:59 PM, denise avant <denise.av...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> I am wondering if someone can direct me on navigating tables with vo in >>>> pages. I am running the latest version of Mavericks. My document is a word >>>> document and it has lots of tables. 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