Thanks Anne. This kind of blew me away because it never occurred to me to interact with the image. I'll do some more experimenting with this.
I have been typing material into TextEdit which eventually would be converted into a table in Word by a reader. This works pretty good because I can get the reader to double check my stupid typing while he's at it. What I need are three fairly narrow columns and then one bigger. I couldn't figure out how to do that. Now that you showed me how to read these templates, is what I just described fairly easy to do in Pages without taking a long time to do it? I could use Word, but I was getting some errors from Jaws when typing in tables anyway, and editing when not in a table is easier for me. Regards, Gigi On Oct 12, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Gigi, > > The templates in Pages contain quite a lot of placeholder text that > disappears as soon as you start typing over it. You can actually read it if > you want to. The inportant thing to remember is never to use Quick Nav in > Pages, and that you have to interact with the text, then use the arrow keys > without the VO keys to find the placeholder text which is highlighted as soon > as you move into it. > > Just using the arrow keys is also the way to find tables and other elements > that VoiceOver doesn't read. If you find a highlighted space, chances are > it's a table. But you can find out easily enough by using the Services menu > item, New TextEdit Window Containing Selection. I've created a shortcut for > this since I use it all the time. You have to create the short cut in System > Preferences. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > On 12 Oct 2011, at 18:19, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi Anne. >> Have I missed something here, but are not the templates in Pages images >> unless you create them yourself? If they are images, can you change them so >> that they are text? When I looked at the templates in Pages, I couldn't get >> VoiceOver to read them. I could get them to work fine in Numbers. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
