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 AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT 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. >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >> their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx