Ok. The reason you did not have to use option is probably I think because you have quick nav turned on. This is fine but it limits the flexibility of the text you select to words. I sometimes want to select characters using the arrow keys, and more importantly as I am hearing impaired carefully and slowly review the text. Quick nav is great but I think you would get even more single hand functionality with numpad commander which I use all the time. You need a keyboard with a numpad keypad for this though. I think it is possible to transform a laptop keyboard to emulate a numpad keyboard but I think you are probably better off sticking to Quick nav on laptops. Re sticky keys announcement have you tried adjusting Voiceover verbosity? I have found Voiceover far less annoying with its announcements since I reduced verbosity from high to medium. As far as I can see Voiceover still announces everything critical but stops making annoying and unnecessary announcements like new line doing say all read out and so on. It might be worth a try if you have not adjusted this setting.
David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Catherine Turner Sent: 01 May 2013 10:14 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Help selecting text on websites Hi David, Thanks for this. I added lines to the rotor. When I tried Shift down this selected the line but VO didn't announce anything so I'm not keen on that method. I tried the interact with text, press VO Enter thing and this worked fine but I found I could select stuff with just the arrow keys and don't have to press Option and Command with it. I'd really like to use theVO Shift C thing because I think that would be the most efficient way but I have a problem with that at the moment. Because I'm using Sticky Keys, whenever I press VO Shift C the last phrase VO said is "sticky key x off". I wonder if I can stop VO announcing the status of the sticky keys? Their status is indicated by sounds which I'm used to so would like to stop VO announcing them if possible but I don't know if this is possible? Any ideas? THanks, Catherine On 4/30/13, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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----- <--- 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/>
