Just a bit of clarification though: You wrote: A.R. In Safari, you have to use the special VO select (VO-Return). This is a toggle command so you use it at the beginning and end of the selection process. You'll hear a whooshing sound as you select text. You then just do Command-c to copy as usual. In order for this command to work, you must first interact with the information you wish to select from and often, it takes several interactions to get all the text because safari will only allow interaction of one group at a time even when you are in dom mode. To select though, you just use vo with arrows etc and you don't use shift with arrows. It is also difficult to know if you are selecting or unselecting because the whoosh is heard in both directions as the same sound. Handy sound that it is, it provides little info but there is hope. vo-f6 tells you what has been selected.
HTH! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:30 AM Subject: Re: voiceover find and selecting text in safari? Hello Jessi, On May 9, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: > the fall 2008 timetable is kinda dumb how it's all laid out, every > single subject available is on one page organized alphabetically. is > there any way I can just do a find for what I want instead of having > to go through all that miles and miles of stuff I don't care about? > lol. A.R. Try the Item Chooser menu (VO-i) and type the first letter of the course you're looking for, press Return and you'll be on that item. > J.R. I figured out that VO f is a find command, but it didn't seem > to work when I tried it. all it did was stall safari for about 30 > seconds, it didn't actually take me to where on the page I wanted to > be. A.R. VO-f only searches the visible part of the page which is why the Item Chooser or Link Chooser are better options. > J.R. when I got to my subject, creative writing/journalism, I looked > through and thought I'd copy and paste the possibilities into text > edit so I'd have something smaller to work with. when I tried the > standard selecting by line command, command shift right arrow, it > didn't do anything. so I opened up text edit, wrote a few lines and > tried it there just to make sure I was doing it right, and it > worked. is it not possible to select things out of safari and copy > them into text edit? A.R. In Safari, you have to use the special VO select (VO-Return). This is a toggle command so you use it at the beginning and end of the selection process. You'll hear a whooshing sound as you select text. You then just do Command-c to copy as usual. Cheers, Anne
