[macvoiceover] Re: selecting text on a web page using voiceover
- From: Laura <laura.mcg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:43:42 +0000
I sometimes do and I sometimes don't. As Russell says, there doesn't seem to be
any obvious reason to account for the difference. I've even had it where I've
been able to do it on a site, and then 5 minutes later I can't. It's weird. And
yeah, annoying.
On 27 Nov 2009, at 05:17, Keith Reedy wrote:
> Hi Candy,
>
> Again let me say, I am having no trouble selecting text with the shift and
> arrow keys.
>
> Keith Reedy
> On Nov 26, 2009, at 11:26 PM, Candie Stiles wrote:
>
>> I am using snow lepard. I will try selecting all the text and putting it
>> into text edit. Thank you.
>> On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> are you using leopard or snow leopard?
>>> On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:19 PM, Candie Stiles wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how to easily select text on a web page? I figured out a
>>>> procedure, but it is long and drawn out, and takes quite a few steps. I
>>>> read in the manual about using the command and option keys along with the
>>>> arrow keys to select text, and although this does work in a regular
>>>> document, I can't get it to work on a web page. What I have been doing is
>>>> interacting with each block of text, pressing vo return to turn on
>>>> selection mode, moving the right arrow over the text and hearing vo say
>>>> each word, pressing vo return again to indicate the end of the selection,
>>>> pressing command C to copy the text, stop interacting with the block of
>>>> text, pressing command tab to go to pages, and finally pressing command V
>>>> to paste the text into the pages document. This process takes an extremely
>>>> long time to go through, especially when it's the lyrics to a song, and
>>>> each line is a separate block of text. Does anyone know of a simpler way
>>>> to do this?
>>>> Candie
>>>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Marcy Weinberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, everyone,
>>>>> I had option-h set up in keyboard commanders to open a particular file,
>>>>> and it was working perfectly until a day or 2 ago.
>>>>>
>>>>> It still appeared in the commanders list, so I decided to delete it and
>>>>> enter it again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried twice to delete the command, and each time vo utilities crashed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to delete another commander set that I had created, and then
>>>>> re-entered it with no problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone else have this happen?
>>>>>
>>>>> Would someone test it out and let me know your findings?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Though, something tells me that as long as your commanders are
>>>>> functionning properly, you won't be able to recreate my issue, but if
>>>>> you'd give it a shot, I'd be appreciative!
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks! Marcy>
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