Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-06 Thread Linda Adams
Thanks for that clarification. On Sep 5, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Sometimes though the text is not presented in a line or lines so thqt method > does not work. I've tried it. > On Sep 5, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > >> Eric, >> >> I struggled with this same question a

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Sometimes though the text is not presented in a line or lines so thqt method does not work. I've tried it. On Sep 5, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > Eric, > > I struggled with this same question and have finally settled on a method that > works flawlessly with copying text areas from the

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread Linda Adams
Eric, I struggled with this same question and have finally settled on a method that works flawlessly with copying text areas from the web. I get to the beginning of the text I want to copy and silence VO. Then pressing only the shift key, I press the down arrow to the end of the text I want t

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello all, If you can get VoiceOver to speak the text you want to copy, just press VO-Shift-c (copy last spoken phrase to clipboard) and you can just do Command-v to paste it where you want. This is immensely useful when setting a shortcut for a menu command that doesn't already have one as it

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread focus
Hi Eric! I'm not sure but I red what you said! And I think you are missing out a stage, after your 1st vo enter, Mike said to highlight the text, the only way I know to do this is, from the top of the text hold down shift and downarrow until you reach the bottom, that should highlight the text!

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, You can also try this. When on the page, press VO shift spacebar to do a mouse click. Make sure your not on a link or button on the page. Now try navigating with just the arrow keys. If it works, you should be able to select text the way you can on a windows machine. hth On Sep 5, 2010

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread William Windels
Hello Eric, This is a little bit tricky , selecting text on the web and don't function all the times. Specially selecting text in tables on a webpage , can be very hard. Some hints: sometimes , it works better if you chose the group-mode in stead off the dom-mode. Another workaround could be

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-09-05 Thread Eric Caron
Mike and others, I would appreciate some help with copying information from the web. I tried to follow the directions below but nothing seems to happen. example. I go to a page with keyboard shortcuts set up in tables. I go to the top and hit VO enter. I then shift Arrow down . The

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-08-07 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
enter again, then press command C to copy it. > On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > >> Hi: >> I'm having issues copying and pasting text from the web. For example, I log >> in to my banking site, see my credit card balance. I place my cursor on the >

Re: copying and pasting text from the web

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
When selecting the text, press VO enter, then highlight the text, and press VO enter again, then press command C to copy it. On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > I'm having issues copying and pasting text from the web. For example, I log > in to my bankin

copying and pasting text from the web

2010-08-07 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I'm having issues copying and pasting text from the web. For example, I log in to my banking site, see my credit card balance. I place my cursor on the $. Press vo enter, then shift right arrow to highlight the amount. I press control c to copy, vo enter to stop selecting. I go to th