[mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:25:25 -0800
In some areas when you interact you get a ding when trying to invoke the vo
enter thing. but i"v I never gotten the strange text thing when trying to copy
that text I selected.
On Dec 17, 2011, at 12:09 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>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:06 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: A few baffling questions
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> 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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