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Re: VoiceOver and menus

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From: Mark Magennis
Date: Aug 25, 2022 7:21AM

Birkir you said "I never try to interact with menus in browse mode, you're technically speaking not meant to do that". This is the salient point. I'll bet plenty of users do do that. It's never occurred to me before because I've never done user testing with MacOS/VoiceOver but since it doesn't have a non-browse mode it would seem natural for users to use browse commands any time, even within a menu. It sounds like the users just need to realise that isn't appropriate. I haven't yet investigated many menus but I would strongly expect them to remain open which might cause confusion later. This seems like a user awareness issue that applications can't be expected to remediate.