I had to check that twice for it to stay that way. it was very very odd. and that was after I inabled my keystroke. I dunno why lion is being stubborn of if it is my machine but there ya go.
I might add though that it worked with the latest build of webkit. On Dec 20, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. 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