Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard includes a new VoiceOver feature to select text that is not editable. (i.e., text on a web site.) To do this, interact with the text in question, and then use VO-Return to start the selection mode. While this mode is on, move the VoiceOver cursor through the text that you wish to select. You will hear a sliding sound as the text is highlighted. When you’re done press VO-Return to stop the selection. VoiceOver will beep to confirm the action. Now you can perform a copy with Command-C or any other valid command with the selected text.

This function will work with any text that can be selected.

Until next time!