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/mac-access@mac-access.net/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 >>>> dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie >>>> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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 mac-access@mac-access.net 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/>
