Hello Carolyn, If you have VoiceOver set to announce when a modifier key is pressed, the VO command to copy last spoken phrase to the clipboard doesn't work.
Cheers, Anne On 23 Mar 2011, at 14:11, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hello Simon: > I've heard about this but never got it to work for me. I'm thinking now from > what you've said it's probably a timing thing on my part. > Thanks for that little detail. > Enjoy your day. > > Ca > On Mar 23, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> I have learnt to use yet another technique which is much faster to copy >> parts of the text from a webpage into an open text document. I use Voiceover >> clever feature called "copy last phrase to the clipboard" which you activate >> with vo+shift+c. Press this command immediately or shortly after voiceover >> has spoken a chunk of text. I often use it even before Voiceover stops >> speaking if I sort know what I want to copy. Even large portion of text - >> provided they are spoken in one go so to speak - get copied. I use it with >> languages too and it works perfectly. You can also copy to clipboard the >> text spoken related to images with which you cannot otherwise interact with. >> It is very seeful. Be aware though, that everything spoken is copied so if >> Voiceover says for instance "header level 2 link what is going in the world >> today?" the words header level 2 and link will be copied too and need to be >> deleted but that is a minor nuisance to me. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Simon >> On 22 Mar 2011, at 23:15, Christine Grassman wrote: >> >>> Hello, everyone. Here I am again, one of the poor souls drifting with shame >>> from the world of Windows into the enlightened precincts of Macdom. It >>> continues to be a rather bumpy newbie ride. >>> Although I have not had any difficulty selecting, copying, and pasting from >>> e-mails and text files, I cannot seem to be able to do it successfully on >>> Web pages. Today, for example, I attempted to copy some text about the >>> pros and cons of nuclear power from a Web site. When I selected, there was >>> no feedback, so I had to estimate. Then, when I pasted the material into >>> first an e-mail, then a text edit file, all I got was "imbedded png file" >>> and "imbedded gif file". I tried searching for the text, but to no avail. I >>> was interacting with the text when I attempted this. >>> I have previously given up when attempting to copy from sites which I had >>> no trouble copying from with my PC. Can anyone explain this new hurdle, and >>> suggest what I must do to leap over it? Thank you. >>> Christine >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
