[macvoiceover] Re: Copy and paist from a web page?
Ok, here's the post from the discuss list. This works for me for single lines but not always for multiple lines even if the mouse purports to be on a whole paragraph. I finally had to select all and then delete the extra content when I tried this technique to copy this email from the archives. But it apparently does often work so it's definitely worth a try. I've put a quotation mark at the beginning of what i've copied and at the beginning of each paragraph and at the end; easier than trying to put greater than signs or something on each line. 



 "Selecting text in Safari: partial solution

yvonne thomson yvonne at netbrains.com.au
"Hi all.

"I've been searching the list, and I haven't found any mention of
this, but please let me know if I'm mentioning something that's
already been posted.

"It's been pointed out here several times that you can't select chunks
of text in Safari, only the whole page. That's not precisely true.

"You can usually select a paragraph of text, if your mouse is pointing
at it, by triple clicking on it. In other words, if you're VO
arrowing through the text on a web page, all the text spoken by
pressing, say, VO down arrow can be highlighted with a triple click,
if you either have your mouse cursor following your VO coursor of
move it there once you've gotten to the bit you want to copy.

"Also, If you want to highlight multiple continuous chunks, triple
click on the first, VO down the number of chunks you want, move your
mouse and shift-click on the last chunk. That'll select everything
from where you triple clicked to where you are now, and you can copy
that text to the clipboard.

"this *very* occasionally doesn't work, for reasons I haven't been
able to work out. You'll get *part* of the chunk, but not all of it,
and I'm not entirely sure why. This usually happens to me with
program code examples. Also, I only just learned about the shift-
click thing today, so I haven't tested it heavily, but it *does* seem
to work.

"Hope this helps someone and that I'm not stating the obvious here."


Cheryl

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