You can't use a finger on each hand and move your hands apart?

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On 10/11/2012, at 5:07 AM, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:

> It does not work for me rather. it acts like I"m turning the rotor. This is 
> one set of jesters i cannot master due to wrist problems and I really wish 
> apple would have come up with a  better way to do this all from the edit 
> rotor. using swipe down jesters. I've suggested this to them but so far no go.
> 
> Be blessed.
> On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Christopher Gilland <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Collin,
>> 
>> That is exactly what I was doing, but the pinching gesture isn't working.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 11:03 AM, "Red.Falcon" <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Chris!
>>> OK you know when you pinch your thumb and finger together!
>>> If you put them at the beginning of the word you wish to select and keeping 
>>> them on the screen just open them or to deselect put them on screen opened 
>>> and pinch together!
>>> Does this help!
>>> Of course if you got it set to line then you will of course select each 
>>> line! *smile*
>>> Colin
>>> 
>>> On 9 Nov 2012, at 15:53, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Actually, I don't completely understand.  I understand about moving the 
>>>> rotor to whatever, lines, words, etc. but I'm not getting the whole thing 
>>>> about separating two fingers.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris.
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniela Rubio" <[email protected]>
>>>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 8:15 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: Copy and Paste: IOS: Mail and Safari
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>> To select text in other places rather than an edit field, you just need 
>>>>> to set your rotor on the mode you will select; let's say, words, 
>>>>> sentences, lines, etc.
>>>>> When you have it, just pace your cursor, with your finger flick down or 
>>>>> up at the start of the block of text you want to select. Then, separate 2 
>>>>> fingers from the centre of the screen, and each time you separate them, 
>>>>> you will select a block. If your rotor was on words, you will select word 
>>>>> by word each time you separate your fingers, if it is on lines, you will 
>>>>> then go line by line.
>>>>> I hope I am being clear and that this information helps you.
>>>>> Take care!
>>>>> Best regards,
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>>>>> Daniela Rubio
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>>>>> El 09/11/2012, a las 13:30, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" 
>>>>> <[email protected]> escribió:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> OK, I have an iPhone 4S, an iPad 1st Generation, an iPad 3rd Generation, 
>>>>>> and an iPad Mini.  So, as you probably can guess, I am quite an I O S 
>>>>>> Guru. Having said that though, this is one thing, that to this very day 
>>>>>> still puzzles me.  I know that in a text field, I can turn my rotor to 
>>>>>> "Edit", and then one finger flick down to select all, double tap, then 
>>>>>> one finger flick down to copy, or cut, and double tap.  Then go to 
>>>>>> another text box, make sure I'm on "Edit", then one finger flick to 
>>>>>> paste, and double tap.  But here's where the, yeah, but... comes in. 
>>>>>> Let's say that I'm in the Mail app, and I've just opened up an e-mail, 
>>>>>> oh, what the heck, we'll just say from my friend.  He's giving me his 
>>>>>> flight
>>>>>> itinerary number, what concorse he'll be in, etc.  I need to e-mail the 
>>>>>> information to my mother who's going to be picking him up.  Again, this 
>>>>>> is just a ficticious example, but it does stand my point in perfect 
>>>>>> context. Yeah, I could forward my mother the entire e-mail, but why? 
>>>>>> When I open the e-mail, obviously the content of the e-mail isn't in a 
>>>>>> text field.  So, how could I select a block of text from that message, 
>>>>>> then copy it?  Here's another example.  Say I'm on Safari, and I see a 
>>>>>> web site that has some good information about a particular topic.  How 
>>>>>> would I then select just that one paragraph then somehow copy it, so I 
>>>>>> could then paste it into a text, or e-mail, etc?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> OK, I'll give you that in Mail, I guess one sollution would be to go 
>>>>>> like I was going to reply/forward the message, then I would have a full 
>>>>>> on text field, then could select all, copy the whole e-mail, compose a 
>>>>>> new message, address it, then put my subject, then paste the body, then 
>>>>>> delete the aronious unneeded stuff accordingly, but, man oh man! that's 
>>>>>> a lotta work just to copy one little part of the mail!  With Safari, I'm 
>>>>>> even more! clueless how I'd do that seeing there's no way what so ever 
>>>>>> that I know of to force the html content into a text element area.  I 
>>>>>> know there has to be a way to do this!  Surely Apple didn't forget a 
>>>>>> feature as necessary as this!  LOL!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thank you kindly,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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