Hi Lovette, David and Sarah are referring to my linked instructions for enabling the "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" services menu option, with the option to assign it a short cut. On the Keyboard Shortcuts pane of System Preferences, after selecting "Services" in the Shortcuts Category table, you navigate to the "Keyboard Shortcuts" table to check the services you want to activate. In this case you want to check the box for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection", so that it will be an available option in your Services menu. There is also a column in that table that optionally allows you to associate the checked services menu option with a keyboard shortcut of your choosing, in addition to the first column for the check box and the second column that names the service. I believe that what Sarah was saying is that sometimes VO+Enter to select the start of a section in Safari doesn't always work for them even after interacting. As I recall, you may not be able to use that if you're on a link. I'm not sure whether David was describing difficulties assigning the shortcut within the table for the service menu option, but that's the only shortcut field I can identify in the context of this discussion.
My original instructions were for Snow Leopard, but I think they also work under Lion. Incidentally, if you are having difficulty finding and selecting text in Safari, and you have set up this service menu option for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" with a shortcut, you can just use Command-A to select all in your Safari window, then apply the shortcut for "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" that you assigned, and do your find and selection from TextEdit, which most people find easier. I don't mean to encourage bad habits, because you should be able to do your finding and selecting in Safari with VoiceOver, but this should work for you. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:15, Lovette Yewchan wrote: > 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: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net >> [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] 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/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/>
