Dear Harry, Regarding speaking the attributes of the text you are reading, press control+shift+v and you will find yourself in the dialogue box where yo you can adjust various values for Voiceover. One of them is speak text attributes. There are other useful functions of Voiceover you can change here fairly quickly while working with documents. Press escape to get out of the place. Have a good look.
Others will add to this no doubt. There's a work around tables in documents which Ann Roberson uses successfully but I have not tried it as I have so far had no use for it but it should work. It is not simple but for now, she has been able to do it. You could try and search this group's archive to find her posts. Or maybe she will kindly respond to your questions. With best wishes Simon On 9 Jul 2012, at 01:18, Harry Hogue wrote: > What I mean with features is being able to tell things like centered text, > different-colored text, tables (inserting them, etc), and I am just guessing > here, but I imagine that putting in a table of contents or headers and > footers wouldn't work too well, either. I would love to see an in-depth > podcast dealing with the real nitty gritty of Pages with VO. > > Harry > > On Jul 8, 2012, at 5:48 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Harry, >> >> As Simon said, track changes is a problem for VO users. We can see what >> changes have been made but not where they are. When you interact with the >> page, VO says "Page whatever, number of items". Anything over 3 items means >> there are additional items such as text boxes on that page. You can interact >> with each of them which is where you see the changes that have been made. So >> you can find which page contains changes, but not where on that page. >> >> Could you explain your comment about formatting features not working that >> well? Most things work fine for me. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 8 Jul 2012, at 12:15, Harry Hogue wrote: >> >>> Simon, >>> >>> Thanks very much. This is a real pity, since track changes is a pretty >>> important feature. Of course, I've noticed that most of the formatting >>> features in Pages don't really work that well, actually. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Harry >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
