Here it is straight from the Window-Eyes manual. This applies only to
browse mode, i.e. internet browsers, email clients, and CHM help files.
Shifted or control shifted arrows, home, end, page up/down will work in
any other programs that support them.
Selecting Text Window-Eyes makes it very easy to select text, images,
and other web content while in Browse Mode. To begin, first locate the
spot where you want selection to begin, and press the Select Content hot
key (which is F8 by default). Window-Eyes will say, "selection start."
Next, move to the location where you wish selection to stop, and press
the Select Content key again. This time, a dialog box will open
containing four buttons:
Copy Plain Text -- When activated, copies all text within the selection
to the clipboard, including any graphical labels, alternative text, or
hidden information which is purposefully made available to screen readers.
Copy with Formatting -- When activated, copies the selection to the
clipboard including all formatting, images, and other non-text web page
elements. Graphic labels and hidden text will not be copied. This
mirrors the approach a fully sighted user would take to copy web page
contents to the clipboard.
Reset Selection Start -- When activated, sets the start of the selection
to the current Browse Mode location. Note that because Mozilla-based
applications provide no formatting information, this item is only
enabled for Internet Explorer-based software.
Cancel -- When activated, closes the dialog without doing anything.
Once the content has been copied to the clipboard, you can paste it into
another application, such as Microsoft Word, for editing.
PS. There's also a shortcut to copying link text that isn't mentioned.
Just go to the first character of the link text and hit F8 twice. For
example, if Window-Eyes says, "link Book name by author name," go to B
in Book name and hit F8 twice to copy the entire link text. If you only
want the author's name go to the first letter in their name and do the
same. In other words, when you're on a link and hit F8 twice it is
equivalent to the old Shift-End method of copying to the end of the line.
Hth,
Tom
On 3/14/2015 9:39 PM, LeAnne via Talk wrote:
Hello all. how do you select text using window-eyes? I try using the
shift and the control key and it doesn't seem to select the text. Any
help is appreciated. Thanks.
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