simpleCopy
Ultimate Capture Power: URLs, Text, Last Spoken Words – All at Your Fingertips, Faster and Smarter
author: chai chaimee
url: https://github.com/chaichaimee/simpleCopy
Master Every Moment of Information Flow
simpleCopy transforms how you seize, collect, and reuse information with NVDA – turning fleeting spoken output, selected text, and web links into instantly accessible assets.
No more missed details, repeated reading, or clipboard frustration. With intelligent gestures, you command your data effortlessly while NVDA stays silent when it should.
Experience total control through:
- Lightning-fast URL & hyperlink capture – grab page or link destinations with clear spoken confirmation of exactly what you copied.
- Dynamic text accumulation – append selections seamlessly to build notes, lists, or compilations without losing a single character.
- Powerful speech history mastery – copy, append, or accumulate everything NVDA speaks – from the moment you first use the speech gesture onward.
Seamless across major browsers and the entire Windows desktop – built natively for the NVDA API.
Hot Keys
Control+Shift+A – URL & Hyperlink Capture
Single Tap: Copies the current webpage URL and announces: "Copied current page URL: [URL]"
Double Tap: Copies the focused hyperlink's destination URL and announces: "Copied link URL: [URL]"
Browser-optimized. In editable fields, the keystroke passes through untouched.
Control+Shift+C – Text Copy & Clipboard Reset
Single Tap: Copies selected text – or appends it to the existing clipboard (with intelligent line handling). Announces action taken.
Double Tap: Clears the entire clipboard and speaks "Clean" for instant confirmation.
No selection? Keystroke passes through. Ideal for research, quoting, and quick resets.
F9 – Last Speech Mastery
Single Tap: Copies the most recent spoken phrase by NVDA to the clipboard and announces it.
Double Tap: Appends the last spoken phrase to the current clipboard content.
Triple Tap: Copies the full accumulated speech log – everything NVDA has spoken since your very first F9 press in this session (e.g., you press single-tap F9 to copy phrase "a", from that point onward NVDA logs every phrase spoken: b, c, d, e…; triple-tap then copies the entire sequence from "a" right up to the last phrase spoken before the triple tap).
Quadruple Tap: Opens the full speech record file – letting you review and search the complete history of what NVDA has read aloud.
Never lose another spoken notification, label, error message, or announcement. Perfect for capturing transient output, debugging, documentation, or building references from NVDA's speech.
Core Features That Redefine Accessibility
1. Instant Webpage URL Grab
Gesture: Control+Shift+A (Single Tap)
One tap captures the full current URL – announced verbatim so you know precisely what's copied. No address bar hunting required.
2. Precision Hyperlink Extraction
Gesture: Control+Shift+A (Double Tap)
Double-tap on any focused link to extract and announce its true destination URL. Robust multi-method detection guarantees results.
3. Seamless Text Append Engine
Gesture: Control+Shift+C (Single Tap)
Build massive notes or compilations by appending selections – smart formatting keeps everything clean and readable.
4. One-Touch Clipboard Clear
Gesture: Control+Shift+C (Double Tap)
Wipe clean instantly with spoken "Clean" confirmation – perfect for privacy or starting fresh.
5. Last Speech – Single Tap Copy
Gesture: F9 (Single Tap)
Capture the very last thing NVDA spoke – ideal for errors, tooltips, dynamic labels, or notifications you want to reuse or share. Also starts the speech logging from this point onward.
6. Append or Accumulate Spoken History
Gestures: F9 Double / Triple Tap
Append the latest utterance, or copy the entire log accumulated since your first F9 use – turn spoken output into persistent, editable text instantly.
7. Full Speech Record Access
Gesture: F9 (Quadruple Tap)
Open the saved speech log file directly – browse, search, and extract from everything NVDA has announced in your workflow.
8. Zero-Interference Smart Design
Keystrokes pass through in editable contexts. simpleCopy activates only where it delivers value – intelligent and unobtrusive by default.
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