I use the vo enter to stop a selection and vo right arrow and vo enter to stop a selection and copy. On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> Hello, > Has anyone discovered a good way to select a block of text from a web page on > Lion so that the text can be pasted into another document? > > On Snow Leopard I used to press command+A to select all the text in the > Safari window, then use the Safari service "new textedit window containing > selection" which would copy the Safari text into a TextEdit window, and then > copy the required text from the textedit window. Alas the service option "new > TextEdit window containing selection" seems to have been removed in Lion. On > Snow Leopard I was sometimes able to simply interact with the Safari page and > use the arrow keys to select the desired text in the normal way. That does > not seem to work on Lion either. > > So I tried the attached approach (which I had never used on Snow Leopard) and > that does not seem to work on Lion either! > > I can manually create an empty textedit window and copy the Safari page into > that and then select the desired text from there but that is hard work! I > feel there should be an easier approach. > > Many thanks for any ideas. > > Paul Hopewell > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Anne Robertson <[email protected]> >> Subject: Selecting a block of text from a website >> Date: 23 March 2011 19:49:03 GMT >> To: Mac iOS Accessibility OSX & <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility <[email protected]> >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Here's how to select part of a web page and copy it into a text document. >> >> • Find the start point for your selection and set a hotspot >> (VO-Shift-number), it must not be a link; >> • Find the end point for your selection and set a second hotspot, once >> again, not a link; >> • Turn cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3); >> • Bring the mouse to the hotspot (VO-Cmd-F5); >> • Check that the mouse is actually on the hotspot (VO-F5); >> • Click the physical mouse or trackpad; >> • Go to first hotspot (VO-number); >> • Bring the mouse to the hotspot; >> • Check that the mouse is on the hotspot; >> • Hold down the Shift key and click the mouse or trackpad; >> • Press Cmd-C to copy the text. >> >> If you've succeeded in highlighting text, you'll hear "Copy". >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> 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 a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > 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/> Sarah Alawami If you need an edit done on a small project go to http://music.marrie.org/master.html for more info. If you need to contact me my info is below. MSN and AIM: [email protected] website: http://music.marrie.org Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> 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/>
