I haven't listened to it yet, but if you can, you might want to have a listen to the podcast that AppleVis recently released on this feature to get a better idea of how it works.
Link to podcast page: http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/ios-9-quick-tip-new-text-selection-tool-voiceover-rotor Direct link to podcast file: http://www.applevis.com/sites/default/files/podcasts/AppleVisPodcast801.mp3 Thanks, Ari On 9/23/15, 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote: > hi Gerry, > > This is what you do: > > firstly, with the rotor, you go to edit and double tap edit. You then use > the rotor again and go to the left until you reach edit selection. you will > hear instructions this point. At this time, you select what you want to edit > by and you do this by flicking one finger down and you will see characters > lines et cetera. You then just start editing. to do this you then swipe left > or right right selects whatever you have decided upon and left deselects. > after that, I cannot describe it properly but you can press delete key on > what you have selected that should get you started and do experiment because > you can't do anything dangerous, as long as you don't mind if you do the > wrong thing! > > Hope this helps. > > Carol P > Sent from my iPhone using MBraille > > On 23 Sep 2015, at 10:36 a.m., Gerald Mader <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't quite get the hang of how to use it. How do you use this feature to > select lines in Say that you want to delete them. If you put it online > selection and the only thing that you have available to use is words how do > you make the line selection work? Thank you. Jerry Mader > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 23, 2015, at 3:16 AM, christopher hallsworth >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I love it also! Used it for real the first time today as part of sending >> an article to another list. Worked like a charm. >> >>> On 22 Sep 2015, at 22:35, '[email protected]' via VIPhone >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I have to say that I love the new editing feature and, for this alone, >>> it's well worth the upgrade, if you can put up with the bugs so far >>> mentioned ... >>> >>> I must say, though, that it took me a while to realise that you expanded >>> the selection by words or lines (instead of letters) by flicking down. >>> How I wish I'd had a clue on that one! <Smiles> >>> >>> Anyway, despite the time I wasted figuring it out ... 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