I'm recently diagnosed with NMOSD and became partially blind in November 2024. I have had to learn to use the various accessibility features, and voiceover has a steep learning curve. However my main issue. is with. HoverTyping. HoverText works great adn pretty consistent at displaying the text I want in a larger font. However, in MacOS Sequoia 15.3 using Microsoft Edge, or using iOS 18.3 using Facebook, HoverTyping is completely broken. HoverTyping displays a blank box when using it with 3rd party apps on the Mac. It only works properly in Apple's own apps, which is a big problem for me because I hate using Safari. I prefer Edge due to it's immersive screen reader mode. Apple changed. the way that. edit text fields work (writing tools for AI) and broke HoverText in most 3rd party Mac apps!
Maybe I'm crazy, but does HoverTyping work. properly in 3rd. party apps for other users on older pre-AI MacOS versions? When I say AI I mean "apple intelligence" features such as writing tools. I. don't care about the AI writing tools when I can't read what I'm typing with my current visual impairments. I'm lucky that my vision loss is not permanent, and am seeing better each day, but the broken HoverTyping. feature is incredibly frustrating as a low vision user. Applee introduced a lot of bugs in this years OS updates and should better prioritize ensuring. they don'tr introduce regressive bugs in the process that break existing accessibility features.
From what I understand, Apple's changes the way text edit fields work in 3rd party apps. In particular, if an app such as the Edge or Chrome web browser was written iin C++ and not Swift, then HoverTeyping is completely broken. I think HoverTyping relies on SwiftUI (it was introduced along wiwth HoverText in 2019 when SwiftUI was released)) but it's not clear to me if 3rd party apps ALSO need to be written entirely in SwftUI in order for them to work properly with HoverTyping. If that's the case, then thousands of 3rd party apps will never be updated in a way that is compatible with the HoverTyping feature, because they aren't using the Swift programming language.This is relevant for me as a computer science student who wants to develop blind-accessible apps in the future.
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