The bits are larger than one phrase or bit. Unles there's a command to add to clipboard instead of replacing it?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 5:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Selecting text in Safari Hi, If all your doing is copying bits and pieces like that, why not do VO shift C which is copy last phrase to clipboard. Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Looks like this makes the Mac almost a no go for my work. I spend a lot of time grabbing addresses and other contact info online and copying it into documents. > I am in DOM mode. If I interact with the text the VO Enter works, but all it will copy is the current element, word, link, etc. If I try to press VO Enter anywhere else I get a beep and nothing. > Copying the entire page and editing would be about 5 times more work than I can accomplish the same tasks with Windows. There really should be a way to grab a few lines, elements, etc. from a web page and copy just them. > I actually thought that's what VO enter was for, but apparently it won't help me at all. > Maybe there is something else I am missing? > Bill > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Selecting text in Safari > > Hello Bill, > > This all seems to depend on the website. Selecting would appear to work better in DOM mode than in Groups. > > If Shift-Cmd-Right arrow doesn't highlight a chunk of text for you, remember that VO-Shift-c will copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard. > > Also, you may find you need to interact with the text to be able to highlight it. > > Failing that, Cmd-a will highlight the whole page, which you can then copy into a TextEdit document and edit from there. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 16 Jan 2012, at 20:17, Bill Holton wrote: > > > Hi. > As I understand it, there are a few ways to select text in Safari. To get a letter, word or line you hold down the shift key and then press arrow for character, option arrow for word and command arrow for the rest of the line. > To select a larger selection, you press VO enter and then move to the end of your selection and press VO Enter again. > > My problem is, neither of these seem to be working. I have cursor tracking turned on and I have tried both with quick Nav turned on and off. I'm sure the problem is between my chair and keyboard, but not sure what to do different. Any suggestions appreciated. > Bill > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
