Greetings All,

I’m interested to hear from anyone who is successfully using any sort of 
VO-accessible alternative to the standard MacOS Clipboard. In particular, I am 
interested in one specific feature: the ability to use the “Copy last phrase to 
clipboard” command (VO+Shift+C) to copy multiple consecutive or non-consecutive 
items to the clipboard without overwriting the previous item. I am a frequent 
User of this particular VO command, and there have been many times when I’ve 
thought I could increase my productivity and decrease the number of redundant 
keystrokes by simply being able to invoke this command repeatedly and have the 
content copy itself into some sort of non-volatile version of the built-in 
clipboard for future retrieval.

I came across another example this morning where I thought about how useful 
this ability would be. I have received a number of emails from students who are 
requesting that I help contact publishers to request accessible versions of 
textbooks. These emails usually include lists of the book titles with edition, 
author, publisher and ISBN. Usually, I only need the ISBN, so I will go through 
each email, find each ISBN, use the VO “Copy last phrase to clipboard” command 
to copy the number, use the standard Command+V to paste the item into a 
spreadsheet, return to the email, and repeat the process for each ISBN in each 
email. I’d really like to just copy the first item to the clipboard, navigate 
to the next ISBN, copy it to the clipboard without having it overwrite the 
first instance, and repeat this process for all ISBN numbers, then go to the 
clipboard or to the destination document and paste the entire list.

Thoughts appreciated,
Bryan

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