Hi Mike, If you're in an edit field on a text, mail, or note on your iPhone, you can set your rotor to "Edit". Place two fingers on the screen and make a twisting gesture as though you were turning a dial. You'll hear options like "Typing mode", "Language", "Characters", "Words", "Lines", and "Edit". Then, once you have set your rotor to "Edit", flick up or down through the options. You'll hear options like "Select All", "Select","Paste", "Replace", etc. Double tap when you reach "Select All".
I'm pasting in the relevant instructions from the section on "Entering and editing text with VoiceOver" from the iPhone User Guide: Select text Set the rotor to Edit, flick up or down to choose Select or Select All, then double tap. If you chose Select, the word closest to the insertion point is selected when you double-tap. If you chose Select All, the entire text is selected. Pinch apart or together to increase or decrease the selection. Cut, copy, or paste Make sure the rotor is set to edit. With text selected, flick up or down to choose Cut, Copy, or Paste, then double-tap. Undo Shake iPhone, flick left or right to choose the action to undo, then double-tap. If you put an icon for the section of the accessible HTML user guide dealing with VoiceOver on your iPhone Home screen, you can click the Home button, then navigate to this part of the guide on your home screen, double tap, and read up the sections with instructions. Then you can double click the Home button to go to the App Switcher, and return to editing your text. Mike, I did a lot of this sort of looking up instructions when I got my first iPod Touch, which is why I suggested (in my post on the mac-access list) that users add either the section heading for VoiceOver or the one above it for Accessibility to their iPhone Home screen. I'll excerpt the instructions from my mac-access list post: <begin quote> My preferred way to learn the VoiceOver related material is to add a link to the copy of the section of the HTML user guide that specifically deals with VoiceOver or accessibility on my home screen. For example, for the iPhone in iOS 5, this might be the section dealing with VoiceOver: • VoiceOver (in the iPhone User Guide for iOS 5) http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/iph3e2e4218.html or else the section one level above it dealing with Accessibility: • Accessibility (in the iPhone User Guide for iOS 5) http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2c13.html There are different specific links to these sections in the guides for the iPod Touch and iPad. In Safari on your iPhone, double tap the "Utilities" button just above the Home button at the bottom of your screen. One of the options will be "Add to Home Screen". Double tapping that button will put an icon on your home screen that will let you bring up the linked section of the user guide immediately from your home screen. This provides quick access to reading about VoiceOver gestures, controlling VoiceOver using an Apple Wireless keyboard, etc. <end quote> If you double tap the link given above to the VoiceOver section of the accessible HTML user guide for the iPhone while reading mail on your iPhone, then Safari will open up at that heading. You'll be able to get immediate access to the links for: VoiceOver Setting up VoiceOver Using VoiceOver Learning VoiceOver gestures Using the VoiceOver rotor control Entering and editing text with VoiceOver Making phone calls with VoiceOver Using VoiceOver with Safari Using VoiceOver with Maps Editing videos and voice memos with VoiceOver Controlling VoiceOver using an Apple Wireless Keyboard Using a braille display with VoiceOver If you double tap the "Utilities" button above your Home button, you'll find the option for "Add to Home Screen". That will allow you to immediately bring up the sections in the User Guide dealing with VoiceOver from your home screen. HTH. For those who want the full, accessible HTML version of the iPhone user guide -- which can also be accessed from your bookmarks in Safari on your iPhone -- here's the URL: http://help.apple.com/iphone/5/voiceover/en/ This information can also be found in the guides section of the AppleVis web site. Cheers, Esther On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:20 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking for the equivalent of a context menu for iPhone apps. Somehow > it is probably activated by tapping once and then holding but I could be > wrong. I am also wondering how to do a "select all" in an edit field. The > other day, I used Siri for text dictation and could have really used a > "select all and delete" command on my iPhone. I had dictated a text in > English, but I had neglected to switch Siri to understand English. It took > me forever to delete the text since I could only delete one character at a > time. > > Any help on these issues is, as always, greatly and gratefully appreciated. > > Mike > -- 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.
