[mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions

  • From: John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:59:28 -0500

   Unless it's changed, it was free.  I specifically downloaded it because it 
was free.


Take Care

John D. Panarese
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On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> Oh, someone told me it wasn't free.
> 
> Whoops?
> 
> Chris.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Panarese" <jpanarese@xxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 3:19 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions
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> 
>    As far as I know, the VoiceOver selection still works in Safari.  I've 
> used it several times in Lion.
> 
>  Lightning is free.
> 
> 
> Take Care
> 
> John D. Panarese
> Director
> Mac for the Blind
> Tel, (631) 724-4479
> Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
> 
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> On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> 
>> yeah, that's pretty much what I do, but I still! am curious what on earth 
>> I'm doing wrong with the vo+return command.  Does it not work anymore like 
>> it used to?
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:06 PM
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions
>> 
>> 
>> 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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