what is the short cut field? Lovette On 2011-12-19, at 9:38 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> Interacting did not work for me either, but It did work for me in safari at > least after pressing VO spacebar on the shortcut field and then pressing the > desired shortcut combination. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: 19 December 2011 23:24 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: copying large chunk of text from safari. > > I'll have to try that. I added the shortcut but sometimes selecting with vo > enter fails even after interaction with the area. > > Thanks for the tip though. > On Dec 19, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dónal, >> >> You can speed this up even more if, after making sure that the "New > TextEdit Window Containing Selection" option is checked under the Services > menu option, you also assign this a keyboard shortcut. Then you only need > to use Command-A to select all and apply your shortcut. You can find the > instructions to set this up in the archived post I wrote for our list: >> • Re: Selecting a block of text from a website on Lion >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00659.html >> I'm using the shortcut Command-Option-Shift-W for this, and this works to > send your selected text to TextEdit from any application. An added bonus is > that it can also be used to read some web sites that are not accessible with > VoiceOver due to bad HTML coding, since using the Services menu option > strips out the non-text elements, as a simple copy and paste does not. For > similar reasons, you can use this to read embedded tables and lists in > documents in Pages, Nisus Writer Pro, etc. by selecting the page and > applying the shortcut, since it transforms the embedded material to text, > and lets VoiceOver read out the table directly. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 06:36, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Ahh Paul, the best solution is usualy the simplest! thanks very much > indeed for this. >>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:30, Paul Hopewell wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Donald, >>>> I do this by selecting all the text in the Safari page and then going to > the menu bar and selecting Safari then Services then Save selected text in > TextEdit WIndow. I can then select the desired text from the TextEdit window > in the normal way. >>>> >>>> Paul Hopewell >>>> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:05, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Folks, >>>>> >>>>> I need to copy large chunks of text from safari. Is there a way to do > this without interacting with each block of text, selecting it, copying, > pasting, returning to safari and doing the same thing all over again? >>>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum > at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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