Dear Anne, Thank yo so much for this. I was under a false impression that the command vo+return for selecting text in webpages and other applications where the usual shift+arrow keys don't work was substituted by vo+command+return. That's why I didn't even try the former.
Thanks a bunch! Andrew On 7 Sep 2014, at 10:46, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > The command you are using to try to select text is the command for selecting > non-contiguous items. The command you want is VO-Return at the beginning and > end of the text you wish to select. You should hear a whooshing sound as you > select the text. > > You could also try the usual way of selecting text, Shift plus arrow keys. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 7 Sep 2014, at 10:45, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > >> Listers, >> >> I am trying to copy some text to clipboard in Preview. I activate the >> select command with vo+command+return, i hear the familiar sound, and then I >> use vo+arrow keys to select the text I want. I then press vo+command+return >> to finish selecting and press the usual command+c command to copy to >> clipboard. But when I go to paste it to another application, like textEdit, >> nothing gets copied. I hear a bong that tells me there's nothing on the >> clipboard. I tried copying the selected text without the final >> vo+command+return but got the same nul result. Has anyone been able to copy >> text successfully in Preview with Voiceover? >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
