RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116239156689326741
Ooh, even more new toys for @stevenscott! ;-)
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Marco Zehe
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Accessibility veteran. #Blind from birth, live in #Germany, worked for Freedom Scientific on #JAWS and #Braille displays, and for Mozilla #Firefox. Shaped web #accessibility with work on #WAI #ARIA. Happy early retiree.
RE: https://caneandable.social/@marco/116213177489477906
Thanks to all who have responded to my inquiry so far! It is interesting that none of us have seen this problem on their systems lately. Yet there still seem to be people who experience it, which is concerning. Because I believe VoiceOver quality on the Mac isn't nearly as bad as its reputation. But there seem to be configurations that really cause problems. So, if you may, keep those observations coming!
Here's an interesting question: Many of you report that you are still seeing VoiceOver going "Safari is busy" regularly on the Mac. Now, I use Safari daily, and I haven't seen this in years. Like... never on my M3 iMac nor on my M2 MacBook Air. I may have seen it on the M1 MacBook Air on very few occasions, but after one big update to MacOS, don't remember which, it was gone. Just gone. And I do use an ad blocker, but no other extensions in Safari. But even without that, I don't remember seeing this at all for a long time. Not on ChatGPT, nor anywhere else. So I wonder what is different. Why are so many of you still seeing this and I absolutely don't.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116205062786787420
Yeah, I thought so. This is a great Mac for people who want to get into the Apple eco system more. It will perform nicely with VoiceOver as well, with the tasks it is designed to be used for. I would even go so far as to suspect that REAPER and OSARA, which are very light-weight software, will be quite OK on that MacBook.
To all going to, or having just arrived at, #CSUNATC26, have a great time and good networking/socializing! Unfortunately, I don't see myself returning anytime soon. The reasons are both financial and political. But I definitely miss meeting y'all!
RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116173014329978374
I'm still a bit bummed by the fact that this doesn't come in the form factor of the 12" MacBook. Instead, it is just a tiny bit smaller than a current MacBook Air. I was a happy user of n 11“ MacBook Air, and the only reason I never bought a 12" MacBook was the sh*tty butterfly keyboard. While my M2 MacBook Air will be sufficient until it no longer receives updates for the stuff I do, if the Neo had been more towards 12“ or such, I would have considered it. But as it is, it doesn't offer me more portability than the one I already own.
A question for #iOS and #Mac developers: I have two iPad apps I am trying to use on the Mac using VoiceOver, and both exhibit the same problem. They have collection views, and inside of them, timeline items, episode lists etc. On iPad, everything works great. On MacOS, as soon as I start interacting with the collection view, the first item is spoken correctly, but if I then VO+RightArrow to go to the next item, everything is just read as „collection view button“. Has anyone encountered this problem and may have an idea how this can be fixed without having to create a full Mac Catalyst app out of the iPad app? Any link to a video or blog post or article is absolutely fine. Thanks! #iOSDev #MacOSDev #VoiceOver #Accessibility
Manuel MatuzovićI want to test something. Which AI tool would I use to find accessibility issues? In code but also on the rendered website in the browser?
@MewProjects Hey, is there a known issue in the latest 0.5.0 that, when quitting on the Mac, none of the latest positions are being saved? Whenever I reopen FastSM,, I am thrown back to some earlier points in my timelines, and whatever I do, they won't get saved upon quitting the app.
Dani Devesa Derksen-StaatsSome people have been asking me to keep going with #365DaysIOSAccessibility, and I will! I promise!
But the other big ask was to have them all in one place. So here they are, in their new home:
https://accessibilityupto11.com/365-days-ios-accessibility/
