Hi Tim, thanks for your help. I wrote to the accessibility team. We'll see what they'll say and I'll let you know.
All the best Jürgen > Am 20.03.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com>: > > Hi, > > This is an interesting one. I didn’t realize that Numbers was smart enough > to figure out patterns like that and extrapolate it on to the desired cells. > The problem is that VO doesn’t seem to have the ability to locate the little > yellow dot that it speaks of in the documentation and Help articles found > around the Internet. So far, I haven’t figured out a keyboard shortcut for > this action either. You probably need to speak with someone at Apple > Accessibility and ask for a feature enhancement that allows for this action > to have a keyboard shortcut. As far as I can tell, it can only be done with > mouse drags once that yellow dot has been visually located. The behaviour > you’re seeing is normal behaviour for Auto Fills and such but this pattern > recognition is a little different. > > Haven’t quite given up yet, but it’s not looking good. > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Mar 19, 2015, at 22:50, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > as I found in the help section to fill cells with data automatically the > following steps are necessary: > I write 1 in B2, 3 in B3. I highlight them and choose from the menue the > point to fill the cells downwards automatically. I expected Numbers to > continue the row with 5, 7, 9, etc. But it didn't work. Numbers simply fills > all the cells with the number 1 which was the number in the first cell. > > A similar issue occurs with automatic filling dates. If I write May 1st 2015, > highlight the cells below and go to the menue as discribed the cells are > filled with May 2nd 2015, May 3rd 2015 and so forth. But what if I want to > fill the cells with June 1st 2015, July 1st 2015 and so forth? I tried the > same method discribed in the help section, so I simply highlighted the first > two cells containing May 1st 2015 and June 1st 2015 and choose the menue to > fill downwards. Unfortunately it didn't work either. Numbers filled all the > highlighted cells with May 1st 2015, May 2nd 2015 and so forth. > > I've read in the help section of something yellow the sighted users have to > hold with the mouse and pull it downwards. But I couldn't detect something > like this yellow thing. > > So, to cut a long story short: does anyone of you have an idea how to solve > these challenges above? > > Thanks a lot in advance and > all the best > Jürgen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
