Hey everyone, going to cover a few different things in one message.
First, as the subject says, has anyone else had issues reading the time
remaining or percentage of a macbook battery in sierra? This happens on
my 2010 macbook, and my girl friend's 2015 macbook pro. While in the
status menus, moving left and right with the voiceover cursor allows
you to get to the battery item, but it just says battery or something
similar, no time remaining or percentage, this happens whether the
option to show the percentage is checked or not in the menu. The only
way I know of to get around this is to check it in the energy saver
settings in system preferences. Interestingly, you can no longer use
the regular arrow keys to navigate the status menus, you must use VO
navigation. I don't mind this, actually it's more consistent this way
since before, the arrow keys only navigated built in items like wifi or
the battery, third party items such as dropbox always have required VO
navigation to access them.
I can confirm that on the 2010 macbook, the same issue I had with my
2010 mac mini does happen, when using Alex, speech disappears,
sometimes for a few seconds, sometimes completely, again, switching to
a Nuance voice resolved it.
I actually got a Christmas present for myself, a new mac mini, the
issue does not happen on the newer hardware. I am using a fit headless
adapter connected to the HDMI port, out of curiosity, I decided to
disconnect it and see if voiceover was as sluggish as it used to be,
surprisingly, I didn't notice much difference. I didn't run it this way
for a long time, but I wonder if Apple has finally fixed this issue for
voiceover users. If not, the fit headless adapter is definitely a good
solution.
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