Hi Mike, I believe a more objective user might put it differently. The sentence I have in mind is that the JFW virtual viewer handles this infinitely better than VO/Safari. I fear that the all too ubiquitous Pollyannaish attitude often seen on this list that voiceOver can do no wrong will result in VI users having inferior functionality in this and other browsing tasks on the MacOS platform for decades to come.
Frankly, when I need to copy a large section of text from a web page (E.G. sharing the latest Ann Coulter column I boot up my XP machine!! I suspect Christine was already aware of all suggestions offered in this thread so far prior to authoring her post. the problem is that IMHO the solutions offered are not viable because in many instances such as the one sighted above, there can be hundreds of chunks of text which all need to be copied one at a time, MHO rendering the task impossible. Since there is no feedback given as you use the shift arrow keys, there is no way to limit the selection, hence it's almost easier to select all and cut it down. Much faster to boot up my XP machine and selectively copy what I want n one step. If I'm missing something I'd love to be shown the error of my ways, but Christine has documented what I believe to be a major VO deficiency. Best regards. Geoff On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > This can be a bit tricky, admitedly, the windows screen readers probably > handle this a bit better. Interact with the text you want to select, then > press control option enter to start selecting. Now move the voiceover cursor > to the end of the text you want to select, then press control option enter > again. You can press control option F6 to read the text you have selected. At > this point, command c will copy the selected text. > On Mar 22, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Christine Grassman wrote: > >> Hello, everyone. Here I am again, one of the poor souls drifting with shame >> from the world of Windows into the enlightened precincts of Macdom. It >> continues to be a rather bumpy newbie ride. >> Although I have not had any difficulty selecting, copying, and pasting from >> e-mails and text files, I cannot seem to be able to do it successfully on >> Web pages. Today, for example, I attempted to copy some text about the pros >> and cons of nuclear power from a Web site. When I selected, there was no >> feedback, so I had to estimate. Then, when I pasted the material into first >> an e-mail, then a text edit file, all I got was "imbedded png file" and >> "imbedded gif file". I tried searching for the text, but to no avail. I was >> interacting with the text when I attempted this. >> I have previously given up when attempting to copy from sites which I had no >> trouble copying from with my PC. Can anyone explain this new hurdle, and >> suggest what I must do to leap over it? Thank you. >> Christine >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
