[mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:06:25 -0800
Just for now copy the current frase to the clipboard. that s how I do it when
vo enter fails to work.
On Dec 17, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> OK, either I'm totally remembering how to do this wrong, or it's broken.
>
> Basically, ever since I've been on Snowleopard, I've had this weird thing
> where if I'm... say... on a web site, either in Google Chrome, or for that
> mind, in Safari, if I find a chunk of text that I need to select, and then
> copy to the pasteboard so I can paste it, say, into a... oh, I dono... say, a
> text file in Text Edit, or maybe say, into an e-mail... whatever... I can't
> for the life of me figure out why, but if I vo+right arrow over to the item,
> then press vo+return, yes, I know, not vo+enter, I'm at least doing that part
> correctly, it says start selecting. Then if I vo+right arrow until I get to
> the end of the text, then hit vo+return again to stop selecting, I then find
> if I hit vo+F6 to see what is selected, or try copying, then pasting
> elseware, I wind up getting really random things from the page pasted
> wherever. I can't interact with the html content, then again with the actual
> item I want to select, then hit command+A to select all. Yeah, in theory,
> you'd think that would work, wouldn't ya. Well, actually, it doesn't.
> all that does is selects everything on the whole page, not just everything in
> that one Voiceover item.
>
> So, yeah, I'm totally perplexed. I don't remember how I used to do this. I
> know at one time I was doing it, and it worked perfectly. That's why I'm
> assuming that I'm missing something here.
>
> The other thing is, I know in Lion, I think if I understood correctly, there
> is a way to do this, but even if I need 3rd party software to achieve it, in
> Snow Leopard, is there a way to apend things to the pasteboard?
>
> Chris.
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