Dear Harry and Simon, Please allow me to make one correction here: You can get to the Verbosity Rotor by pressing Control-Option-v.
With best wishes, Mike On 9,Jul,2012, at 10:42 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
