Selecting text and copying with Voiceover on the web is not great but the following techniques may work.
1. Command A to copy all the page and command V to paste into Text edit. The text should all be available easily then to copy and paste in the normal way. I wish this is what happens in Safari. 2. Shift VO C to copy the last phrase spoken by voiceover to the clipboard. In practice I find this is the quickest way to get text off a web page with Voiceover. As voiceover normally reads a paragraph at a time this provides a quick way to get a paragraph of text off the page. You can then edit it down to what you want in Text Edit, or mail or whatever you are using. 3. As I find method 2 the easiest I do not use the formal method of selecting text because it is very clunky. If you want to experiment with it the method is from memory 1. Interact with text. 2. VO Enter on start of text you want to select 2. Move the cursor keys to cover the text you want to select. 3. VO enter to mark the end of selected text. 4. Command C to copy the selected text. This is from memory and I am not currently on my Mac to test this so I may have got this slightly wrong but I think it should work. Because you have to interact with text you will be restricted in any case to selecting text from within a paragraph and will not be able to select text over 2 paragraphs. Basically you will be using a lot of keystrokes to achieve pretty much what you can achieve with shift VO C to copy last phrase spoken. I find it quicker to just copy the paragraph this way and get rid of text I do not want. Method 3 is worth considering if you only want a very small amount of text and the paragraph is very big. David Griffith. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Marshall Sent: 11 April 2013 02:06 To: mac access Subject: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet hello listers, i'm trying to copy a few lines of text from a webpage and can not remember for the life of me how to solect it all for copying how do i go about this? thanks for any help Michael <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences 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 [email protected] 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/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
