[nfbcs] Copying from a webpage

[Nicole Torcolini]

Although a little more complicated, there are other ways to achieve the same
thing. If you can get enough of the content on the screen, you can use the
JAWS virtual viewer. There are also programs for printing to PDF, and the
PDF's are usually accessible. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 7:39 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Copying from a webpage

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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