Standard Infocom menus, such as the hint menus in the Solid Gold releases, are difficult to use, mainly because there is no quick way to find out which line is currently selected.Īll three of these are improved in the unreleased code I am currently working on, so let me know if you are interested in trying it out.

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When text in a scroll view is selected, VoiceOver will often start speaking from the top of the scrollback rather than the top of the visible text.

To tab to links and other elements, you need to enable the 'Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls' setting in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls.

I asked for testers here a couple of years ago, and the response was tentatively positive: Mac VoiceOver users wanted for testingĪs I understand it, there are three basic problems with VoiceOver and most interactive fiction interpreters: The default keyboard access on a Mac is to allow users to tab only to form controls (text inputs, buttons, etc.).

The last couple of months, I have been trying to improve the VoiceOver support of Spatterlight, but progress has been slow.Īs far as I know, nobody uses Spatterlight with VoiceOver, and I really don’t know what VoiceOver users will expect or what kind of features would be useful.

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