I open the document in Pages, then also open it in Google Docs. Google Docs lets me navigate by heading. When I find the heading I want, I VO+Shift+C copy the heading to the clipboard, switch to pages, press Command+F, then Command+V paste the heading text into the search box. Most of the time, this takes me immediately to the heading I'm after.
Hi, I'm sighted so please forgive my lack of knowledge regarding if and how this would work with Voiceover.
On macOS, under the View menu in the menu bar, is a Table of Contents option. When you select that, it pops open a sidebar on the left of the document window. This will show you the structure of the document based on the Styles that have been applied to the text.
You may need to choose Edit at the top right of this sidebar to toggle on or off the different Styles you want to be able to navigate by (eg Heading 1, Heading 2, etc). When you select a heading in the sidebar (via a mouse click for me, not sure how with VO), the document jumps to that heading within the main area of the window. The heading text is briefly selected to highlight it, before the cursor appears at the end of the text after a second or so.
On iOS, the equivalent feature is accessed via an ellipsis button on the top right. Within that menu, is a View Options heading. A sub-heading in View Options is Navigator. When you toggle the Navigator on, a button appears near the bottom of the document area saying Page 1 of 3, for example. Tapping this button gives you the Table of contents. Again, you may need to edit which Styles are listed here.
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My workaround
I open the document in Pages, then also open it in Google Docs. Google Docs lets me navigate by heading. When I find the heading I want, I VO+Shift+C copy the heading to the clipboard, switch to pages, press Command+F, then Command+V paste the heading text into the search box. Most of the time, this takes me immediately to the heading I'm after.
Hi, I'm sighted so please…
Hi, I'm sighted so please forgive my lack of knowledge regarding if and how this would work with Voiceover.
On macOS, under the View menu in the menu bar, is a Table of Contents option. When you select that, it pops open a sidebar on the left of the document window. This will show you the structure of the document based on the Styles that have been applied to the text.
You may need to choose Edit at the top right of this sidebar to toggle on or off the different Styles you want to be able to navigate by (eg Heading 1, Heading 2, etc). When you select a heading in the sidebar (via a mouse click for me, not sure how with VO), the document jumps to that heading within the main area of the window. The heading text is briefly selected to highlight it, before the cursor appears at the end of the text after a second or so.
On iOS, the equivalent feature is accessed via an ellipsis button on the top right. Within that menu, is a View Options heading. A sub-heading in View Options is Navigator. When you toggle the Navigator on, a button appears near the bottom of the document area saying Page 1 of 3, for example. Tapping this button gives you the Table of contents. Again, you may need to edit which Styles are listed here.
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THank you Paul. I am actually creating a document in pages so I am kinda looking for ways to navigate quickly to each elements in my document.