[nfbcs] Copying from a webpage

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks!  I guess that makes sense.  I guess they want to sell programs, not 
just have slobs like me copy them.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Copying from a webpage


> That's because the web page has disabled copying of that data.  This is
> traditionally done with lottery web sites.  Maryland does this with its
> lottery web page.
>
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>
>> I have occasionally copied the day's racing program for Belmont from the 
>> NYRA
>> website into Notepad, then put it into my Braillenote to study at 
>> leisure.
>> The program is essentially a big table, or set of tables.  But lately, 
>> when I
>> try to select the table and paste it into Notepad, I only get other data 
>> from
>> another part of the website, and no program at all, even though I 
>> carefully
>> position my cursor on the table before hitting shift-pagedown or
>> shift-downarrow.
>> Any ideas why this is happening?  It's as if the table data isn't there 
>> at
>> all, although Jaws is reading it perfectly.
>> I have been able to copy tables from other websites with no trouble.
>> I am using Jaws 14, IE8, and Windows XP.
>> TIA.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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