Highliting text in Mac OS X lion

By Felix, 29 June, 2012

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Hi! Can someone please enlighten me, are there any means of highlighting text or separate word in Safari and other applications such as Mail? I can copy single word or text by pressing VO shift+c, but how can i highlight text if i want for example to add it to iTunes as a spoken track or look up a selected word in a dictionary?

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By Walei on Sunday, July 8, 2012 - 18:37

There is a VO command for selecting text. It's VO and Return. When you press it VO starts selecting. You can then start pressing VO and the arrow keys to select the words you want. there Should be a sound as you select more and more words. When you are done selecting you can press VO again and it will stop selecting. Whatever you selected will now be high lighted. Unfortunately, VO can't select everything and you have to keep interacting with an object in order to start selecting text in it. This limits VO to selecting only one paragraph at a time. I'm not sure whether or not there's a way to select more text. Once you have text highlighted, you can press VO shift M to bring up a context menu which has look up and speech options. I've found that It doesn't always focus on the text that VO has selected. Not sure if that's a bug or it's meant to be that way.

Thanks :). This command works well, especially in mail, but that's not the case in safari. It does not provide copy and look up options. I've noticed that there's a problem with focusing on items in Safari, for example it does not provide a contextual menu for links showing list of actions for the whole webpage instead.