[macvoiceover] Re: Copying data off web pages and other apps using IPhone.
- From: "Bubba" <bubbathegeek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:40:31 -0400
Hi, how about using the keyboard with the iphone could you copy and paste
then, I mean a external Bluetooth keyboard?
Sign,
Bubba
-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 2:22 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Copying data off web pages and other apps using
IPhone.
I found it but I could never get this to work. Good luck and here is the
message.
text
First bare in mind that material viewed in Safari can not be selected. This
is a documented limitation. I believe EMails are viewed in the Safari
browser, hence you would need to forward a message in order to render the
text selectable.
Lets say for example that you want to extract the phone number from a text
message that reads as follows:
"For a good time call 800-466-4411 and ask for help."
Perhaps someone can find a better method but there appears to be no way to
select the phone number exclusively. Instead I used the rotor to get to
edit and flick down with one finger to copy (the only available
option) the entire message.
Next I can either go to email or create a note where the above number is to
be pasted.. Again I use the rotor to land on "edit", and flick to paste and
double click.
I now have the entire text quoted above, but all I want is the phone number.
So I move my insertion pointer to the "F" in "For", but must pinch those
five words away. As one experiments with pinching this will become a lot
easier. You do a two fingers opening gesture I think of as a reverse pinch
to select right of the insertion pointer and a real pinch (close two
fingers) to unselect. What is selected/unselected depends on the size of
the gesture and current rotor setting. If selecting characters, a half inch
open pinch gesture will likely cause VO to say that the r was selected and
I'll hear three clicks indicating that the f and o were also selected. The
same gesture while the rotor toggle is set to "words" would likely cause the
words "for a good" to be selected. I would hear three clicks and VO would
say: "good selected". So I would first rotate to words and use a large open
pinch gesture to select: "For a good time call". If I accidentally over do
it and select the phone number I can use a closed pinch to unselect it. If
I only selected the word "time" I can do a tiny open pinch to select the
word call (all data to the left remains selected). Once the first five
words are selected, then I'd toggle the rotor to "edit" flick to "cut" and
double tap, and those five words are gone -- I now have text reading:
" 800-466-4411 and ask for help."
Now all I need to do is place the insertion pointer to the right of the
phone number, rotate to words and use an open pinch gesture to select the
unwanted four words as described above. When VO says something like: "help
selected", rotate to edit and flick to "cut" and only the phone number will
remain.
On Oct 23, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Keith Reedy wrote:
> If you don't have any information, please don't post.
>
> On Oct 23, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> There was a way to do it. It was discussed on another list but since I
left that lit I can't ask. lol!
>>
>> S
>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Kristyn Leigh wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty sure that you can't copy text from Safari on the iPhone.
Where such options are available, you will find "edit" in the rotor. Once
you choose "edit," flick up/down to find select all, cut, copy, and paste.
>>>
>>> Kristyn Leigh
>>> Sent from my mini Mac.
>>> kristyn0@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 3:17 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> Hi All.
>>>>
>>>> this is a basic question and I cannot find any info on it.
>>>>
>>>> How do you copy text using the IPhone when you are on a web page or
within an email? I am not in an edit field when I want to do this.
>>>> Sean
>>>
>>
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