[Electronics-Talk] issue copying text from browsers using JAWS

[Patrick Johnson]

One of the JAWS lists also posted the solution.  Curtis Chong provided the
following steps  which were easy for me to follow.

If your aim is to copy just the text from web pages without regard to link
or heading formatting, you need to change a setting in JAWS so that copying
is performed from the virtual cursor instead of using onscreen highlight.
list of 5 items nesting level 1
1. When in the browser, press JAWSKEY+V to enter JAWS Quick Settings.
2. Type "copy" without the quotes.
3. Down arrow until you hear JAWS say, " Select and Copy Full content using
onscreen highlight."
4. Press Space to switch to Virtual Cursor.
5. Finally, tab to and activate the OK button.

Thanks to everyone who emailed solutions.

Patricklist end nesting level 1


On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM Dennis Long via Electronics-Talk <
electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> I just posted the solution.
>
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> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] issue copying text from browsers using JAWS
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> Group,
>
> Anyone else running into the issue of being unable to copy text from  a
> browser, in my case Chrome into a document?  I am running JAWS 2025 and
> Google Chrome latest version and while I can copy a heading such as a =
> book
> title I can not copy the author information or synopsis from =
> bard.loc.gov
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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