Simon Jaeger4d ago
I kept seeing a blank live activity at the top of my iPhone's notification center, VoiceOver's feedback being limited to, "activate to expand". I figured it was some third-party app that just hadn't added proper labeling. Today I finally "activated to expand", instead of just clearing it.
It was the clock app after multiple alarns got stuck.
I spent a lot of time in Linux terminals today. Open-source free software continues to infuriate me less than my 2000-dollar iPhone.
Show threadJamie Teh4d ago
@simon I feel like this about REAPER too. It isn't free or open source, but it's cheap, has a total of 2 full time devs, and mostly just gets out of my way and let's me do the job without friction or fighting, which is more than I can say for the vast majority of other things I use on a daily basis largely made by big companies with huge budgets. Firefox and NVDA mostly fall into that "actually nice category for me too, though there are a few bugs I need to squash related to both of those to make that fully true.
Show threadSimon Jaeger3d ago
@jcsteh Oh, and belatedly, NVDA and Firefox do make an amazing combo that seems to just work. Genuinely the only problem I can remember having since version 60 was the pesky off-screen bug, and you fixed that. It's officially snappier than Chromium on slow hardware. And with all the times I have to pick the commercial/enshittified/big tech competitor because the FLOSS version doesn't work, this is the complete opposite and I sometimes forget how important that is. So thanks for being such an integral part of making sure that continues to be the case.
Show threadJamie Teh3d ago
@simon Thanks. I'm really glad to hear that. Would you mind if I pass this along to my team? I'm sure they'll be happy to read it also.
Show threadMarco Zehe3d ago
@jcsteh @simon I can second Simon's sentiment on the Mac side as well. Firefox is just ridiculously snappy and accurate, usually knocking Apple's own Safari out of the park, too. Thanks for keeping the Mac side so healthy even after I left. 😉
Show threadScott
@marco I'm only a part-time Mac user so this might be a stupid question, but given the longstanding responsiveness issues with Safari, how come more VO users don't use Firefox instead? Is there stuff it doesn't do? @jcsteh @simon
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Show threadMarco Zehe3d ago
@Scott @jcsteh @simon I don't know why not more people are using Firefox on the Mac. Guess because Safari is there and it generally works OK. But so far, I haven't found anything that it doesn't do that Safari does, except maybe for the integration with Apple Passwords. The way Safari integrates with that so tightly is truly awesome and seamless. Don't know if there is actually an extension for Firefox for that, but that's about the only thing I can think of right now. And that has nothing to do with VoiceOver support.