Great. Thanks for revealing your mistakes. That surely helps others. All the best Jürgen
> Am 28.02.2019 um 13:37 schrieb Craig Werner <[email protected]>: > > Hello, Jurgen, and thank you for your solution, which worked perfectly. I'm > embarrassed by my mistakes, but I'll include them here in case they help > others. I knew to interact with the paragraph in which the word I wanted to > copy occured, but I pressed Command plus right arrow instead of VO plus right > arrow to find the word, and I pressed Command-C to copy it instead of > VO-SHIFT plus C. This double error made the operation fail miserably. I > too often forget about the VO-SHIFT-C command. I'm rather surprised that > the Apple Accessability rep did not know this sequence since, as you say, it > is fairly simpler > > Chaig > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:21 AM Jürgen Fleger <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hello Craig, > > actually it‘s fairly simple: interact with the paragraph and use VO + right > arrow. Add Shift to move by character. > > For me Preview works fine in most cases. No huge issues. The only thing > difficult are tables but that‘s all. > > To copy the Word to the paste board use VO + Shift + c to copy the last > spoken phrase to paste board. Or use CMD + a to highlight all the text and > copy it to paste board. > > As far as I know Adobe still didn‘t make Acrobat Reader accessible to > VoiceOver. But I‘m not absolutely sure about this. > > Hope this helps > Jürgen > > > > > Von meinem iPad Pro gesendet > > > Am 28.02.2019 um 05:22 schrieb Craig Werner <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > > > Greetings, everyone. > > > > I know there are multiple problems when using Preview to read Adobe > > Acrobat files with VoiceOver, and I am not skilled at messing about > > with these files. However, what I'm trying to do is so basic that I > > feel there must be a way to accomplish my purpose. > > > > Question: How do I read by word in an Adobe Acrobat file using > > VoiceOver and then select that word for later pasting? Let's assume I > > am on the first word of a file. How do I get to the second word and > > have it read that word? Right arrow produces no sound. VO-right > > arrow takes me to the next paragraph. Is this the best I can hope > > for? In other words, I can read by paragraph using VO-right arrow > > and even by lines (VO-down arrow gives me the next line); but I can't > > read word by word. An Apple Accessibility rep advised me to get Adobe > > Acrobat. Of course, I can do this and probably will. > > > > I am using VoiceOver with macOS 10.14.3. > > > > Thank you very much for all help. > > > > Craig > > > > -- > > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > > Visionaries list. > > > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners > > or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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