Hi It is tricky to get right, especially at first.
Firstly lets say that you have your VO cursor at the beginning of a sentence. Use the two finger twisting gesture, i.e., the rota so that you have it on words. Now put two of your fingers close together on the screen and move them apart. You will hear VO say the first word of the sentence and then say selected. If you keep moving your fingers apart you will hear VO announce the next word and that it is selected. The most important thing to remember when performing this pinch out gesture is to ensure that you move your fingers directly apart from each other without any twisting. If you don't do this, VO can misunderstand the gesture and interpret it to be a rota gesture. I hope this helps, just keep practicing. As I mentioned this is not the easiest of gestures to master. I think that as VO users we are at a slight disadvantage to our non VO counterparts as they do not have the rota gesture available. This means that they don't need to be as careful to ensure the outward or inward movement is as linear as we do when performing the pinch. cheers Garth On 03/10/2011, at 7:53 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I can't do the pinch gestures to select text on my I phone as no one has ever > described to me what to do. If someone could describe how to do it I will > have a go! > On 3 Oct 2011, at 04:02, Garth Humphreys wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I don't believe that this is possible. You can only select text where it is >> editable. So for example if you wish to select some text that is in an email >> you've been sent, you would first have to setup a reply to the email. This >> makes the text editable and you then can go through and select some of it. >> >> You can make a selection by doing a pinch out gesture. The text will be >> selected in increments of either character, word or line dependant upon your >> current rota setting. You can also do a select all by setting the rota to >> Edit and then flicking up. >> >> I don't know of anyway of selecting text on a web page directly. I guess you >> could email the page to yourself and then do the Reply trick as outlined >> above. >> >> Cheers >> Garth >>> >>> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> Potluri >> >> >> On 01/10/2011, at 7:27 PM, Venkatesh Potluri wrote: >> >>> Hi listers! >>> I would like to know the gesture or the series of gestures that I have >>> to perform to select text in EMails, web pages and in applications >>> where there is text in iOs 4.3.5. I am using an iPhone 3gs. >>> I need help in selecting multiple messages from a conversation to >>> forward or delete. >>> Thank you in advance. >> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
