You can turn cursor-tracking on and off with shift-VO-f3. It's similar to what other screen-readers might refer to as "cursor linking". I generally leave mine on, as I am easily confused. :)
Teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > What was odd is I already had all the checkboxes turned on in the nav section > of the VO utility so this cursor tracking is apparently another setting which > must be setup somewhere else, but I couldn't find it. > > CB > > On 1/17/12 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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