https://wiki.mudlet.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Accessibility_on_OSX 2026-06-06T22:23:57Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.35.0 https://wiki.mudlet.org/index.php?title=Accessibility_on_OSX&diff=20062&oldid=prev 2022-07-31T05:25:44Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">VoiceOver skipping lines</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left diff-editfont-monospace" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:25, 31 July 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2" >Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>VoiceOver on macOS has a flaw - when there is too much incoming text, it will [https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/709501 skip to the latest] line without reading all others out in full. There is no way around this, and this issue does not apply to iOS where VoiceOver does have the functionality to queue up text.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>VoiceOver on macOS has a flaw - when there is too much incoming text, it will [https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/709501 skip to the latest] line without reading all others out in full. There is no way around this, and this issue does not apply to iOS where VoiceOver does have the functionality to queue up text.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a remedy, Mudlet offers an option to disable reading out incoming text with VoiceOver - go to preferences, Special Options, and disable &#039;Announce incoming text in screen reader&#039;.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As a remedy, Mudlet offers an option to disable reading out incoming text with VoiceOver - go to preferences, Special Options, and disable &#039;Announce incoming text in screen reader&#039;<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, which is on by default</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can then install a 3rd party package such as the [https://github.com/tspivey/mudlet-reader mudlet-reader] which will use TTS to announce incoming text without running into the queueing issues.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>You can then install a 3rd party package such as the [https://github.com/tspivey/mudlet-reader mudlet-reader] which will use TTS to announce incoming text without running into the queueing issues.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-20051:rev-20062 --> </table>

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<p>Document VoiceOver skipping lines</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>= VoiceOver skipping lines =<br /> VoiceOver on macOS has a flaw - when there is too much incoming text, it will [https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/709501 skip to the latest] line without reading all others out in full. There is no way around this, and this issue does not apply to iOS where VoiceOver does have the functionality to queue up text.<br /> <br /> As a remedy, Mudlet offers an option to disable reading out incoming text with VoiceOver - go to preferences, Special Options, and disable &#039;Announce incoming text in screen reader&#039;.<br /> <br /> You can then install a 3rd party package such as the [https://github.com/tspivey/mudlet-reader mudlet-reader] which will use TTS to announce incoming text without running into the queueing issues.</div>

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