Actually, once you set the rotor to characters, words, or lines, use the pinch gesture to select some text. Once text has been selected, Edit usually appears in the rotor. I do this fairly regularly. In a few places, edit does not appear. I suspect text is copy-protected in these few instances.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 16/07/2013, at 0:48, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > At this point I don’t think you can, the Edit option in the rotor is only > available in an edit field. I am not sure if as a sighted person it is > possible to copy text in, for example, Safari, but I also think it would be > nice if one could copy text anywhere. Something to write to > accessibil...@apple.com about. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alan Lemly > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 4:47 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Help Still Needed Selecting and Copying Text > > I am still having difficulty selecting and copying text on my iPhone 5. I > often want to copy a word, sentence, etc. from an online newspaper article > I'm reading in order to message it to someone. I've finally gotten where I > can get close to selecting the applicable text using the pinch gesture. I > thought at that point I needed to use the rotor to select edit, copy but > there is no edit option on the rotor when I'm reading an online article and > it is definitely turned on in the settings. So can someone tell me how I > would do this? > > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > Alan Lemly > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
