![]() You can download additional languages for VoiceOver Recognition.To access available audio graphs, press VO-U to open the VoiceOver rotor, then navigate the rotor until you hear “Audio Graphs”. VoiceOver can indicate when an audio graph is available to play and read a summary (if available) of the graph or chart and its axes. An audio graph uses tones and pitch to create an audible representation of the data and trends shown in a graph or chart. Graphs and charts displayed on websites may include audio graphs to make the data they present more accessible.When more content is available, press VO-Command-/ to hear it. VoiceOver indicates when more information about the item in the VoiceOver cursor is available (you can change this setting in the Hints pane of the Verbosity category in VoiceOver Utility).In its support documentation, Apple lists the following changes for VoiceOver users in macOS Monterey: While your results may vary, we do not currently expect this change to affect overall VoiceOver performance. In some situations, VoiceOver may announce that an app is “Not responding.” In testing, this announcement tends to occur in instances where VoiceOver would have been silent in prior versions of macOS, and is thus a replacement of the familiar "Busy" message.Previously, screen curtain on macOS was disabled whenever VoiceOver was toggled off and on again or if the Mac was restarted. Similar to iOS and iPadOS, VoiceOver on macOS now retains the state of screen curtain so if you, for example, have screen curtain on and then turn VoiceOver off and on again, screen curtain will remain on.At this time, there is no way to customize this behavior. To provide context to your search, you must use the arrow keys or stop interacting with the text to have the paragraph spoken. When searching for text on a webpage using VO-F, VoiceOver now only speaks the text in the immediate string, not the surrounding text in that paragraph.If you are a low vision Mac user, we would love to hear in the comments your experience and thoughts on this and any additional enhancements you encounter in macOS Monterey. As we do not have any low vision Mac users on our team, however, we are unable to comment on the precise utility of this feature. MacOS Monterey introduces custom mouse pointers, which customize the outline and fill color of the mouse pointer so it’s easier to recognize when it moves or changes to an insertion point, crosshair, hand or other shape. Voice Control adds new language options including Mandarin Chinese (China mainland), Cantonese (Hong Kong), French, and German.Accessibility Memoji: Memoji represent more of your look and style with new customizations, including oxygen tubes, cochlear implants and a soft helmet for headgear.VoiceOver descriptions for PDF signatures: Add custom descriptions to new and existing PDF signatures so you can use the right signature with VoiceOver.Image descriptions persist even when shared and can be read in a range of supported apps on iPhone, iPad and Mac. VoiceOver image descriptions in Markup: Markup lets you add image descriptions that can be read by VoiceOver.This year, macOS Monterey brings some more changes and a handful of bug fixes. Last year Apple brought improved image recognition to macOS Big Sur, along with greater prominence of the VoiceOver Actions menu. If you are a braille user and have any experience with macOS Monterey and braille, please do post your findings in the comments. We have no information as to how well braille works in this release, so please keep this in mind when upgrading. There’s no harm in holding off a few weeks or months to let Apple address a problem you may find too disruptive to deal with.Ī note to braille users: the AppleVis team members doing testing with macOS Monterey are not heavy braille users. Please remember to check the section about bugs to see if now is the right time to upgrade. For an overview of the mainstream changes, we recommend that you read this in-depth review by MacStories. As usual, we won’t cover the mainstream features here, concentrating instead on what's new and changed for blind and low vision users. Apple has today released macOS 12 Monterey to the public.
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