Hello Bill and Mark,
I use the Paste Special menu options all the time, and, yes, they are easily accessed from the keyboard! First, I use the F8 select command on a web page to copy part or all of the web page. Then I go to an open Word document, and finally I press the Alt key and press H, V, S. A menu appears which you can move through with the Up and Down arrow keys. Press the Enter key when you are on the desired menu item. It works great with F8 selection to insert stuff into a document with the format you desire. In fact, it works better in Window-Eyes 9.0 with F8 selection than ever before. I usually pick the Unicode Text option so to preserve all the Unicode characters that may be on a web page. Peter Duran From: Marc Solomon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:36 AM To: Bill Holton; [email protected] Subject: RE: Some insight regarding text selection in Browse Mode Bill, I am aware of advanced copy/paste options in Microsoft Office products. Is this what you are asking about? If I copy text from the web and then go to paste it into an Office application, I am given options for paste special via small pop-up window. While this pop-up window can be difficult to access from the keyboard, you can access the same options in the Home tab of the Ribbon under the Clipboard group. The Paste button in this group has a drop down menu with all of the same options that are presented in the Paste Special pop-up window (Keep source formatting/K, Merge formatting/M, Keep text only/T). So, if you want to use Paste Special, instead of pressing Control-V, use this Paste drop down menu in the Ribbon. Give this a try and if it doesn't work as advertised, please let us know. But, when you do be sure to include the following details: 1. Testing environment: operating system, web browser and versions, Window-Eyes version, speech synthesizer being used, Office version 2. Exact steps to duplicate the problem 3. Expected results 4. Current results Thanks, Marc From: Bill Holton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:14 AM To: Marc Solomon; [email protected] Subject: RE: Some insight regarding text selection in Browse Mode Another way the text selection does not currently work correctly, in my opinion, is there seems no way to do a paste special command. Usually without a screen reader I believe you can use this command to choose whether you want to keep the original formatting or use the destination formatting. Perhaps something like pressing Enter for original formatting, spacebar to use the copied text formatting? Bill From: Marc Solomon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Some insight regarding text selection in Browse Mode Hello everyone, There has been quite a few messages regarding this topic and I wanted to take a few minutes to share my thoughts. In earlier versions of Window-Eyes, prior to version 9, you could use the same keyboard commands to select text in Browse Mode as you could in applications that have a text cursor such as Notepad, Microsoft Word, etc. As many of you know, these text selection keyboard commands are not currently available in Window-Eyes 9. I am referring to commands such as Shift-Left/Right Arrow, Shift-Up/Down Arrow, Control-Shift-Left/Right Arrow to select by character, line and word. I want to clarifying that these commands are not built into web browsers like they are in Notepad and Microsoft Word. In order for these commands to work in Browse Mode, the Ai Squared developers have to create special programming to support this functionality. And, this feature request is certainly on our to do list. While I am not a Window-Eyes developer, I have spoken to those who are very knowledgeable about the inner workings of the product. My understanding is that the Shift selection commands would use much of the same code used to implement the F8 text selection method. In other words, the F8 text selection code is really the foundation that underlies all of the other work that would need to be done to implement the Shift based text selection. So, in order to get there, we first need to make sure that the F8 text selection method is as reliable as possible. I have encountered situations where the F8 text selection method, that is currently available in the Window-Eyes 9 Browse Mode, fails to produce the expected results. No software is perfect, and Window-Eyes, just like all other software applications has bugs that need to be fixed. We need your help identifying these problems so we can work on fixing them. If you are able to consistently duplicate an issue relating to F8 text selection, please share your findings with us so we can work on fixing the problem. Here is the information we would need you to provide when reporting a problem to the GW-Info list or directly to our support team: 1. Testing environment: operating system, web browser and versions, Window-Eyes version, speech synthesizer being used 2. Exact steps to duplicate the problem 3. Expected results 4. Current results Ai Squared is committed to our customers and making Window-Eyes the best product it can be. Let's continue to work together as a community to provide constructive and helpful feedback that can enable the Window-Eyes development team to solve these and other types of complex computer access challenges. 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