Pages is not really an appropriate application for just reading, whether on an IOS device or on a Mac. However, it does offer a reasonably accessible way of formatting documents.
Here's a little guide to using Pages on the iPhone that I put together from my own experience and other people's. Cheers, Anne You can read and type text. Be aware, however, that rather than showing the entire document in one edit field, Pages breaks documents up in to multiple edit fields in such a way that each edit field corresponds to roughly one page of text. You'll see two or three of these "pages"/edit fields on screen at once and must use the vertical scrolling gestures to scroll through the pages. So, when you move to the top/bottom of an edit field, or select all text in an edit field, you aren't moving to the top/bottom of or selecting the entire document but rather manipulating the current "page". Thus, if you wanted to make some formatting change that applied to, say, a couple of pages, you'd have to select relevant text from the first edit field in question, apply the formatting change, select text in the next relevant edit field, apply formatting change, and so on. You can accessibly change the font used. After you select text using typical VO selection commands, activate the Info button located in the upper right-hand portion of the screen. The safest way to find this without losing your selection is to approach the status bar from the top and locate the time, then slide your finger down to Info and tap with a second finger to activate it. Then go straight to the bottom portion of the screen without touching anything in between, and you'll find the Text Options pane. You'll see formatting items; activate the icon labeled with the current point/font info, then activate the icon called Font, CurrentFontName, (where CurrentFontName is the actual font name of course) and pick a different font. The buttons to apply effects such as Bold, Italic, Underline, etc. also work. You can also change the point size by flicking up or down, but changing the colour is a problem as the colours are not named. Once done making those changes, you can return to the text by sliding a finger up the left-hand side of the screen. Documents are saved automatically as you compose them, so you never save them manually. Emailing works fine; from upper-right portion of screen, select Tools > Share and Print > Email Document > button corresponding to file format you wish the attachment to be in, then a regular Mail window opens for you to fill in relevant details. Renaming documents is tricky but can be done. If you add a new document and select the blank document template in order to add a blank document, its name will just be "blank", and the next blank document you create would be called "blank1", etc. Here's how to rename a Pages document on your iPhone. Warning: you need a steady hand. You have to select Documents, then in the list of documents, place one finger on the one you wish to rename, toggle VoiceOver off, double-tap with that one finger, then toggle VoiceOver back on again. You'll be in an edit field which is the file name. Type the new name, then tap Done. You can't accessibly sort documents in to folders. -- 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.
