Text Selection In Chrome for Windows

[Ana G]

I'm having trouble selecting text in Chrome for Windows when I'm using a
screen reader other than ChromeVox, so I'm wondering if there's
something extra I need to do.


I'm holding down shift while using the arrow keys to select, and I'm
using ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy and paste. I'm also sometimes using
ctrl+a to select all.


In general, NVDA works relatively well. Most of the time, I can
successfully select text with shift+arrows (not with ctrl+a), and I can
copy it to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere. But there are times when
I need to make multiple attempts or when the text does not get selected
or copied.

In general, Jaws 18 and Narrator don't work. Most of the time, I hear
that text is selected and copied, but only a link or some code is pasted
elsewhere. Occasionally, I am able to paste the text I intended, but
this is rare. Again, I'm using shift+arrows and ctrl+a to select text
and to select all, and I'm using ctrl+c and ctrl+v to copy and paste text.

When I browse the web, I often select text and copy it into a blank Word
document so I can read it comfortably, cutting ads and other clutter as
I go. I also like saving recipes, knitting patterns, and other howtos
for reading offline. I've had a hard time doing this with Chrome and
other Windows screen readers.

[David Sexton]

Hi Ana,


Thank you for the excellent report. Could you also send the version of
Chrome you are using? You can find this by opening chrome://version in
Chrome.


We are already tracking a similar issue and I have added your message to
the issue here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=792040


Thanks,


David

[Ana G]

I'm using the following version of Chrome:

Google Chrome:
63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)
Revision:
2e6edcfee630baa3775f37cb11796b1603a64360-refs/branch-heads/3239@{#709}
OS:
Windows
JavaScript:
V8 6.3.292.49
Flash:
28.0.0.137 C:\Users\anaga\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\PepperFlash\28.0.0.137\pepflashplayer.dll
User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36
Command Line:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
--flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path:
C:\Users\anaga\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
Variations:
c134752e-b8b72c88
3095aa95-3f4a17df
6c43306f-ca7d8d80
7c1bc906-f55a7974
47e5d3db-3d47f4f4
1210a805-ecd831c
b1edbc38-cf4f6ead
91ea9dd3-3f4a17df
ba3f87da-45bda656
776de70c-eadfd437
79616653-3f4a17df
9e201a2b-6e3ce1c
68812885-4d2fac87
5e3a236d-4113a79e
f347910c-3d47f4f4
4b61504a-d25ea691
9773d3bd-f23d1dea
8e3b2dc5-93702590
9e5c75f1-1039a221
f79cb77b-3d47f4f4
4ea303a6-ecbb250e
d92562a9-ca7d8d80
90bcbadc-d25ea691
447469ba-13d9f35f
7aa46da5-c946b150
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1bced4a3-90fa85cd
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ef25c1eb-3f4a17df
494d8760-6843eff2
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4442aae2-6e597ede
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94e68624-803f8fc4
f141d4bc-28ad44a
e9ce63c1-36ab09a2
da4aaa01-ca7d8d80
Compiler:
MSVC 2017 (PGO)

[Laura Eberly]

Thanks so much, Ana! I updated the bug with this info.

Thanks,

Laura

[Steven Bohlin]

Hi Ana-

Started having this same problem this morning with Win 10.  Seems to be a delay of 6-or7 seconds before the text highlights.

Mouse pointer lags before morphing to a text cursor.

Thanks

I'm running  Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)