Hi. I can't just up and down arrow in order to find stuff to start selecting and even if I do ad shift to that to select line by line, there is no selecting going on. A silly question. Are you using Lion or SnowLeopard? I'm using Lion.
On 2012-01-17, at 2:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > I guess I'm not following what you're looking for. I did a VO-command-h to > jump to the heading and the VO-right a couple times to find the paragraph. > Then I just shift-downarrow six times to select all the text. I could have > continued down arrowing to pick up more stuff on the page, stuff I had not > even interacted with. I'm not sure where the "interact[ing] with each element > on a webpage" part comes in. I had to interact enough to find my starting > point but that was about it. What is your expectation? > > CB > > On 1/17/12 1:20 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: >> Hi. >> This still only works if you interact with each element on a webpage even >> with all of the cursors tracking each other. >> I'd be reporting this to Apple Accessibility. I know I already did several >> times. Maybe if they see enough requests, they'll add it. >> >> >> >> On 2012-01-17, at 12:34 PM, Bill Holton wrote: >> >>> Thanks. As mentioned, I figured problem was between keyboard and chair. I >>> thought I had the tracking set right. Let me try later today and see if I >>> can duplicate. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:28 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Selecting text in Safari >>> >>> I was able to do this on your test page just fine. Main thing was to be >>> sure cursor tracking was turned on with control-option-shift-F3. I then >>> went to your page: >>> >>> http://winit.womansworldmag.com/enter/drawing/4a606b5463a666f91cfc0aa8a80e30 >>> 5f0828351b >>> >>> and found the text starting with "Pandora's Charm...". From there I then >>> just did a dhift-down arrow until I selected the whole paragraph, >>> including the link. Then I hit command-c to copy and was able to go to >>> another app and paste it all. Until I turned on cursor tracking I wasn't >>> able to make it go. Used this Apple help page which described the >>> process and different ways to select the text: >>> >>> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=VoiceOver/1.0/en/mh2089.html >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 1/17/12 8:34 AM, Bill Holton wrote: >>>> 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. 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