[nabs-l] Macs Verses PCs

[Greg Aikens]

Hi Joe,
I have been able to accomplish everything I need to do with Pages, the word processor in iWork.  You can save and apply different styles, change the spacing, font, alignment etc.  Very little of this is done in a similar way to the way it is done with Jaws though.  

When you mention tables, comments, and track changes, you hit on the few things that iWork and voiceover don't do well.  You can access the content of tables in Pages, but only by copying them and pasting them into a document in Numbers, the spreadsheet program.  You can read and see the various comments and changes, but it is completely disconnected from the body of the text, making them almost useless.  

Hopefully the next release of iWork will fix these problems.  

-Greg
On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Joe Orozco wrote:

> I'd be curious to know what the level of flexibility is when it comes to the
> word processor.  Someone once told me that in order to find out things about
> underlining, justification and so on, you had to paste the text to the
> system's text editor because the information was not readily available on
> iWork.  Can you use styles in the same way you can with MS Word?  What does
> table navigation look like, and how easy is it to review and edit documents
> using comments, footnotes, revision histories and the like?  One good thing
> about Mac OSX is the availability of several full word processors as opposed
> to just the Office package for which JAWS scripts have been optimized,
> though to be fair I'm not sure how many of these Mac options are accessible
> with VoiceOver.  Sorry to use the thread to pose my own questions, but I've
> been curious.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Joe
> 
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