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my partner is sort of out of her depth, just got a mac and put #tweesecake on it. Is now trying to figure out how you actually read buffers? You can tab around the UI and select sessions, her mastodon session, and timelines, her home timeline, but then she can't seem to actually read the posts in her home timeline if she does anything else in the UI, such as composing a post. What are we missing? I've never used a mac before so I haven't a clue how to help her. It's as if the timeline contents just don't appear in the window. Tabbing past the buffers gives vertical scroll bar, and VO can find no table for the buffer itself. We're using imported data from a windows computer because we have no hope of remembering her tweesecake account credentials, does something about importing like that break the display? It just seems off that there are tables corresponding to the sessions and buffers lists, all well and good, and not one corresponding to the actual content list. @LaurenCeleste @app @masonasons
in reply to x0

They don't appear in the window at least not to VO. From what I know the WX virtual list view control is inaccessible on Mac which is why you only see those 2 tables. If you tab enough times you should eventually focus that 3rd invisible list, which is hacked into speaking by sending announcements directly to VoiceOver through AccessibleOutput. And in turn for that to work, you have to allow for VoiceOver to be controlled through applescript in the general section of VoiceOver utility.
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach Thanks much! Yeah that was the thing we missed, quicknav was on so the arrows weren't behaving as normal and we were confused by the control not appearing. Mona is obviously leagues better for mastodon but cake is the only accessible telegram on mac so...
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@pitermach Has unicode still not been fixed yet? She's trying to use emojis in the field and says they aren't working?