I mant for those of us wiht out bt keyboards. There's got to be a better way to do it with 1 finger like the way I suggested to apple. lol!
Take care all. On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Bubba wrote: > Just use the BT keyboard! > > > Sign, > Bubba > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:54 PM > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Copy and Paste on the iPhone > > If you all have free dev accounts you can submit it as a bug report but put > it as a suggestionin the dropdown box or email [email protected] and > see what they say. I did both. lol! > On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:22 PM, chris hallsworth wrote: > >> Don't think I could either, it sounds too complex for my involuntary hand > movements. >> >> On 10/01/2012 20:00, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> Yeah I cannot do that jesture because of my wrist problems. I wish apple > would have made it so you can flick to select via the edit option then once > you double tap that you can turn the rotor and flick up and down to select > the line, word, char and so forth. I did suggest that to them. >>> On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there! >>>> Ok when sitting on the phone number! >>>> And if the rota is set to words! >>>> place thumb and finger pressed together on the screen and do the pinch > out stroke and that will select the phone number! >>>> If the number has space's carrie on opening the pinch to select the next > block of numbers! >>>> If the rota is set on letters the pinch open will select number by > number! >>>> This will also work for words! >>>> It should also select line by line if the rota is set to that! >>>> But not sure! >>>> Then of course when you've got the number/words selected use the copy > and do with it as you will! >>>> This pinch thing can be a little tricky you might change a rota setting > as you open your thumb and finger if you put a little twist as you open > them! >>>> But keeping them straight will select the items in question! >>>> hth Colin >>>> >>>> On 10 Jan 2012, at 18:08, Geoff Waaler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Paul, >>>>> >>>>> To extract a phone number, let me set up an example. Lets say I have a > text message as follows: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> "For a good time call 867-5309 and ask for Jenny." >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps someone can find a better method but there appears to be no way > to >>>>> select the phone number exclusively while viewing a text -- IE when not > in edit mode. Instead I >>>>> used the roter to get to edit and flicked down to copy (the only > available option) the entire message. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Next I can either go to email or create a note where the above number > is to be pasted.. Again I use the roter to land on "edit", flick to paste > and double click. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I now have the entire text quoted above, but all I want is the phone > number, hence I move my insertion pointer to the "F" in "For", but must > pinch those five words away. As one experiments with pinching this will > become a lot >>>>> easier. You do a two fingers opening gesture I think of as a reverse > pinch to select right of the insertion pointer and a real pinch (close two > fingers) to unselect. What is selected/unselected depends on the size of >>>>> the gesture and current roter setting. If selecting characters, a half > inch open pinch gesture will likely cause VO to say that the r was selected > and I'll hear three clicks indicating that the f and o were also selected. > The >>>>> same gesture while the roter toggle is set to "words" would likely > cause the >>>>> words "for a good" to be selected. I would hear three clicks and VO > announces: "good selected". So I would first rotate to words and use a > large open pinch gesture to select: "For a good time call". If I > accidentally over do >>>>> it and select the phone number I can use a closed pinch to unselect it. > If I only selected the word "time" I can do a tiny open pinch to select the >>>>> word call (all data to the left remains selected). Upon selecting the > first five words, for my purposes I could press delete to make them go away, > however, if you wanted to cut or copy them for some reason, you could get > them to your clipboard by toggling the roter to "edit", flicking down to > either "cut" or "copy" and double tapping. Either via "cut" or pressing > "del", those five words are gone -- I now have text reading: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> " 867-5309 and ask for Jenny." >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Now all I need to do is place the insertion pointer to the right of the > phone number, rotate to words and use an open pinch gesture to select the > unwanted four words as described above. When VO says something like: "Jenny > selected", press del and only the phone number remains. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> HTH. >>>>> Geoff >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: Paul Hopewell >>>>> To: mac-access >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:45 AM >>>>> Subject: Copy and Paste on the iPhone >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> Is it possible to do copy and paste on an iPhone 3GS running VoiceOver > on IOS 5? 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