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!

Did you ever wish there was a quick and easy way to copy the text from a dialog box? A way to copy a serial number or password from one window to the next when it isn’t provided in text that can be copied? Maybe you just want to copy an error message to a friend who is trying to give you some tech support. VoiceOver provides an easy way to do this. Simply move VoiceOver to the item in question, and then press VO-Shift-C. This command will copy the last thing spoken by VoiceOver to the clipboard in a textual form that can be pasted anywhere text can be placed with the standard Paste functionality. (i.e., Command-V).

Until next time!