Highlighting, Copying, and Pasting with Mac VoiceOver
How to highlight, copy and paste text using Alex VoiceOver (the screen reader that comes with Apple MacBook)
Hold down the CONTROL and OPTION keys and use the UP and DOWN areas on the keyboard to select the desired text or input field
Alternatively, OPTION + COMMAND + SHIFT + UP arrow allows you to interact with the content and therefore navigate with the UP/DOWN arrows without having to keep the CONTROL and OPTION keys held down.
Wherever you’re typing will be automatically selected. By default Alex will read or your braille display will display by sentence.
Add the CONTROL and OPTION keys to navigate by word.
Add the SHIFT key if you want to navigate by letter.
To copy paste, select the text you want to copy paste by navigating to it and
To highlight, turn the interact-with-text ON (CONTROL + OPTION + SHIFT + DOWN arrow) and use the by-word or by-letter navigation (whichever you prefer) and hold down the shift key as you arrow to the word where you want to finish highlighting.
COMMAND + C to copy
COMMAND + V to paste
If you want to paste in a different field, for example if you’re copy-pasting a post into a reply field on a forum you can hold down CONTROL + OPTION and use the UP and DOWN arrows to navigate to the type-in field. Then you can do COMMAND + V to paste. If you would like to add BBCode like [QUOTE] [/QUOTE] or quotation marks, you can navigate within the field using the same interact-with-item technique described before.
If the different field is in another window, you can use the COMMAND + TAB feature to toggle between windows. Then within the new window you can use the CONTROL + OPTION and arrow keys to navigate within the new window to find the type-in field.
Duration : 0:3:56
