Firstly I would, as suggested on this list a couple of weeks ago, amend your Voiceover settings in Voiceover Utility to include lines under your web rota. You will find this under Web and Web rota. Just check the lines element in the table of elements to include in the rota. This will add the capacity to select lines of text in Safari. As far as I recall this is announced correctly by Voiceover but I am on my windows laptop at the moment so will have to check later.
An alternative method of selecting words is slightly more convoluted but definitely works and is read appropriately. 1,. Interact with Text. 2. Press VO enter. 3. Then select the words with shift option and cursor keys. 4. Press VO enter again to end selection. Press Command C to copy. 5. Uninteract with Text to return to normal web page reading. Also remember the standby VO Shit C to copy the last phrase spoken to the clipboard. This is a rapid and efficient way of copying a paragraph of text or other page element. David Griffith . -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Catherine Turner Sent: 30 April 2013 18:35 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Help selecting text on websites Hi, I'm having trouble selecting text to copy from web pages and wonder if anyone can help me. According to my understanding of what I've read in the Voiceover manualI'm supposed to (with Quick Nav on) choose an item e.g. "words" from the rotor by pressing up and right arrow, or up and left arrow. THis I did. Then I'm supposed to press down arrow to move through the words which I can do. But it says to select an item press Shift down arrow. I don't understand whether I'm supposed to press shift down after I hear the word I want to select, or press Shift down several times, selecting word by word as I do so. Either way, I've been messing around with it, and when I press Shift down VO doesn't say anything at all. But I press Command c anyway to copy and then paste into notes with varying results. It seems, despite having chosen words from the rotor, when I pressed Shift down once I got several lines of text. And sometimes I don't get anything. I'm not convinced I've understood the instructions correctly. Could anyone explain how to select text while on a web page to me? I'm fine with selecting stuff with standard OSx commands but presumably these don't work on websites as I can't get them to work in that situation. Also when I go into VO keyboard help and press Shift down it doesn't say anything and I would have expected it to say "select item" or something if I've understood this correctly. Can anyone help? Thanks, Catherine <--- 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/>
