Thanks, Tim, I look forward to anything you might find out. I remember one time I called Apple and asked about this issue, and they said it wasn't considered when they were designing Voiceover (this was back with Snow Leopard). I'm familiar with the table command, and use it frequently.
Thanks. Harry On Jul 27, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Harry, > > Try using VO-cmd-t to go to the Sheets Table. this command takes you between > tables within the given document. > > I also haven't yet been able to have VO read the contents of a cell with a > pop-up within. It allows me to select but does not read what has been > selected when navigating through at a later time. > > I'll play some more to see if I can get anywhere. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-07-27, at 10:55 AM, Harry Hogue <harryhog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Anne, >> >> I've been going to the layout area and interacting with it, where I can see >> the tables I've added there. When that didn't seem to work, however, I went >> to the item chooser, to the sheets table, interacted, and brought the mouse >> over so I could move about. That worked. Is there a quicker way to get to >> the sheets table, however? >> >> With regards to the menus, it's strange. I'm able to put items in the >> menus, but it never tells me which is selected; it only says "menu cell," or >> something like that. That was back in Lion when I tried it, so I didn't >> know if anyone knew if accessibility had improved or not. >> >> And it really does seem when things aren't working with Voiceover that the >> solution is more often than not to move the mouse to a particular spot and >> manipulate it that way. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Harry >> >> On Jul 27, 2012, at 8:5tson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Hello Harry, >>> >>> To edit the contents of a cell, press the space bar. In the case of menus, >>> this will bring up the menu. >>> >>> To rename the table, go to the Sheets table, interact with it and navigate >>> to the one you want to rename. Bring the mouse and double click using the >>> trackpad, then type the new name and press Return. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>> On 27 Jul 2012, at 03:06, Harry Hogue wrote: >>>> >>>> Is anyone familiar with Numbers and using the menus, checkboxes, etc. >>>> features? I would like to create an attendance tracker to practice skills >>>> in Numbers, but I just now looked at the template for an employee >>>> schedule, and the menu options that are placed into the cells are all >>>> dimmed, and although it gives times inside of those menus (times the >>>> employee signed in/out, for example), VoiceOver does not read this >>>> information. Should I be going about this type of thing another way? I >>>> want to be able to create professional presentations using Numbers that >>>> will give me the information I need about my budget, or my upcoming >>>> internship schedule, and that kind of thing, but I want to have it be in a >>>> way that is accessible when using VoiceOver, obviously. Right now I'm >>>> trying to create the attendance tracker with information modeled off the >>>> office.com website using Excel 2003. I want to learn how to do these >>>> various things because Numbers/Excel has always been a weak area of mine. >>>> How, for example, do you rename a table? >>>> >>>> I would appreciate any thoughts from a confident Numbers user. >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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