It has been my experience that you have to select the text in one motion. If you stop the pinch, you cannot add more to the select. What I like to do is start with my two fingers at the upper left corner of the iPhone's screen. That way I can move diagonally across the screen to give me the most real estate to work with. Sighted users do not have this problem, because there are little handles they can grab and drag through the text.
Chuck (mobile) GO BLACKHAWKS! On Jun 15, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Andrew Head <ath...@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Thanks Siegard and Chuck. > I listened to the podcast but just had a couple of clarification questions. > 1. How do you read what is selected? > 2. when I moved my fingers apart on the screen, one got to the other side of > the screen and I hadn't finished selecting the text I wanted. How do I > continue selecting? Do I just move down the screen a couple of centemetres > and put my fingers back together and continue, or do I just not move down > the screen and just move one finger back next to the other and start again? > andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Sunday, 16 June 2013 6:33 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Selecting text > > Hi Andrew, > > Chuck explained this correctly, but I thought I add that if you want more > details, Garth has a podcast about selecting text, copying and pasting on > his website, www.IBlindTech.com. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Andrew Head > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:01 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Selecting text > > Hi all, > Just wondering how do I select individual characters or words when editing > text? I can select all text, but don't know how to select individual > characters or words. > Any help on this is greatly appriciated. > From Andrew. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
