[QUAD-L] hello from a new participant in Olney, Maryland
I'm a new participant in the forum from Olney, Maryland. I was injured in an accident at the beach about three years ago, and I'm now a C4/C5 quadriplegic. It sure is nice to find a forum dedicated to quadriplegics. I can imagine that being a paraplegic is a devastating and life-changing injury, but it seems to me that quadriplegics face problems of an entirely different magnitude. I have two primary areas of interest: Support for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I am currently using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and it works pretty well for most things, but I have questions from time to time. For example, does anyone know how to copy a block of information from a website and paste it into a document using Dragon voice commands? Quality of life issues. So many of the organizations which help those with spinal cord injuries seem to focus on basic health needs and research and things like that. I am considering starting an organization which would focus on quality-of-life issues only. It is nice to stay alive... but it might be nice to have some fun too. Are you aware of any organizations which focus on quality-of-life issues for quadriplegics and their families? If I were to start such an organization, would that be of interest to you? Thank you, and take care, Dave Krehbiel
Re: [QUAD-L] hello from a new participant in Olney, Maryland
Quality of Life might be addressed by your local federally funded, Center for Independent Living. Best Wishes In a message dated 8/17/2010 8:45:45 A.M. Central Daylight Time, davekrehb...@earthlink.net writes: I'm a new participant in the forum from Olney, Maryland. I was injured in an accident at the beach about three years ago, and I'm now a C4/C5 quadriplegic. It sure is nice to find a forum dedicated to quadriplegics. I can imagine that being a paraplegic is a devastating and life-changing injury, but it seems to me that quadriplegics face problems of an entirely different magnitude. I have two primary areas of interest: Support for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I am currently using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and it works pretty well for most things, but I have questions from time to time. For example, does anyone know how to copy a block of information from a website and paste it into a document using Dragon voice commands? Quality of life issues. So many of the organizations which help those with spinal cord injuries seem to focus on basic health needs and research and things like that. I am considering starting an organization which would focus on quality-of-life issues only. It is nice to stay alive... but it might be nice to have some fun too. Are you aware of any organizations which focus on quality-of-life issues for quadriplegics and their families? If I were to start such an organization, would that be of interest to you? Thank you, and take care, Dave Krehbiel
Re: [QUAD-L] hello from a new participant in Olney, Maryland
Hi Dave, I am an avid user of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10. I'm using it now. Here are the voice commands that I would use to copy a block of information from a website and paste it into a document: 1. Go to the webpage you want and use the MouseGrid commands to place the cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to copy. 2. Say mouse mark. It won't look like anything happened, but NaturallySpeaking now knows its starting point. 3. Use the MouseGrid commands to place the cursor at the end of the text you wish to copy. 4. Say mouse drag. This will highlight all the desired text. 5. Say copy that. 6. Switch to the document you wish to paste your copied text into and say paste that. There may be an easier way, but this works for me. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions. As for quality of life issues and supporting organizations, I concur with Wheelchair on checking first with any local Center for Independent Living. No need to reinvent the wheel if a really good wheel is available to you. Steve - C4, 22 years On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dave Krehbiel davekrehb...@earthlink.netwrote: I'm a new participant in the forum from Olney, Maryland. I was injured in an accident at the beach about three years ago, and I'm now a C4/C5 quadriplegic. It sure is nice to find a forum dedicated to quadriplegics. I can imagine that being a paraplegic is a devastating and life-changing injury, but it seems to me that quadriplegics face problems of an entirely different magnitude. I have two primary areas of interest: Support for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I am currently using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and it works pretty well for most things, but I have questions from time to time. For example, does anyone know how to copy a block of information from a website and paste it into a document using Dragon voice commands? Quality of life issues. So many of the organizations which help those with spinal cord injuries seem to focus on basic health needs and research and things like that. I am considering starting an organization which would focus on quality-of-life issues only. It is nice to stay alive... but it might be nice to have some fun too. Are you aware of any organizations which focus on quality-of-life issues for quadriplegics and their families? If I were to start such an organization, would that be of interest to you? Thank you, and take care, Dave Krehbiel
Re: [QUAD-L] hello from a new participant in Olney, Maryland
well it depends on what your operating system you're on and what is your favorite web browser? I am running Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit edition, Firefox and Dragon version 10. If you are running under Firefox there are countless number of add-ins to grab any information that is being displayed in your web browser window! Now if you want to copy text just drag and highlight and right-click to copy and paste into some other application. Any other questions just ask From: Dave Krehbiel davekrehb...@earthlink.net To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 9:45:20 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] hello from a new participant in Olney, Maryland I'm a new participant in the forum from Olney, Maryland. I was injured in an accident at the beach about three years ago, and I'm now a C4/C5 quadriplegic. It sure is nice to find a forum dedicated to quadriplegics. I can imagine that being a paraplegic is a devastating and life-changing injury, but it seems to me that quadriplegics face problems of an entirely different magnitude. I have two primary areas of interest: Support for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I am currently using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10, and it works pretty well for most things, but I have questions from time to time. For example, does anyone know how to copy a block of information from a website and paste it into a document using Dragon voice commands? Quality of life issues. So many of the organizations which help those with spinal cord injuries seem to focus on basic health needs and research and things like that. I am considering starting an organization which would focus on quality-of-life issues only. It is nice to stay alive... but it might be nice to have some fun too. Are you aware of any organizations which focus on quality-of-life issues for quadriplegics and their families? If I were to start such an organization, would that be of interest to you? Thank you, and take care, Dave Krehbiel
