ok tiff, when you bring it into text edit, hide the rullers, make it fit to page under view, change it to plain text and then you can use regular up and down arrows and editiong like shift with arrows to select and control+c and control+a and control+x etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tiffany D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Alternative to Safari or Something I can't because for some reason, Mac and Gmail don't get along. Everyone's telling me that it's because of the formatting of the page. In either case, when I select all from the webpage, copy it and paste it into Text Edit, I can't read it properly. If I use the uparrow, it'll bring me to a certain point and then start from the beginning again. I can't go word by word either. It's very strange and only happens with certain pages, Livejournal being the second one I've noticed. On 2/16/08, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why not just click to go to the page? > or copy the message into text edit and select what you want? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tiffany D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 2:29 PM > Subject: Alternative to Safari or Something > > > My Windows machine is shot (the adapter port is broken) so I'm mostly > relying on my Mac now. Every time I want to select a link or some > text, I have to keep going in and out of the select mode. The thing > is, it won't select the full address of a page if it's in a text. Say > there's an email with a long web address. Well, it'll select up to a > certain point and that's it. The method I'm using is vo shift down > arrow to interact with the text and then vo enter to select. I'll use > vo right arrow to select, then vo enter to stop selecting, command c > to copy and vo shift up arrow to stop interacting with the text. But > as I said, I can't just continuously select text. If there's a period > or something in a webpage or another paragraph of text, I have to keep > stopping, pasting to wherever and then going back. This is driving me > absolutely crazy so I have to keep going on the xp desktop (which > isn't mine, but which I have permission to use) to do this. What > makes it even more difficult is that I can never seem to be able to > copy a gmail page correctly into text edit, so I can't even use that > as an alternative. It'll copy the whole page, but I can't read it > properly as I can with almost every other webpage (except > LiveJournal). Please, is there a way to fix this? Is there another > browser that I can use? If not, I'm installing windows on this or get > out my xp desktop that I haven't used in a few years, reformat it > (it's loaded with viruses) and use that for things like this because I > don't think I could take anymore. Btw, I'm also writing to > assistiveware and the makers of ESpeak cause I desperately need a > Greek synth for the Mac. > > > > >
