I know with the M1 macs, there is a new way of selecting a start up
disk, you hold the power button for a few seconds. With the Intel macs,
you would hold the option key but apparently with the M1 macs you can
do a bit more from the menu that appears if you hold the power button.
Do you know if this menu is accessible?
Original message:
You certainly said a mouthful about Messages. I've found workarounds,
and the 11.1 update definitely improved things, but not enough to the
point where I'd say it was as usable as it was on Catalina. The way
message conversations are selected for posting new messages or even
deleting the conversation requires more VoiceOver gestures/steps, too,
not to exclude what you wrote which is also absolutely correct.
I haven't tried the Dock stuff yet, but I'm sure it's exactly as you
reported.
One wonders, what were the accessibility testers thinking when it was
pointed out to them during the beta cycle that these things were
different enough such that retraining would be required? I totally had
to retrain myself with Messages, for sure. Unfortunately, I can't go
back to Catalina because I have the M1 Mac, and I took on the challenge
of being an early adopter, so I await improvements which will surely
come. There are a lot of core applications--core for my use anyway--that
are not yet M1-ready, and I agreed to wait for these, but I do like my
M1 Mini for all the core Apple stuff, except Messages,of course, and
probably a few more as I continue to explore Big Sur.
On 12/20/2020 7:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
I decided to give Big Sur a try on one of my macs, and honestly, I'm
thinking about going back to Catalina. Since I became a Mac user back
in 2008, I think this is the first time that I've considered going back
to a previous version of Mac OS, but for me at least, there are some
major issues.
First, whenever I install a major upgrade of the operating system, I
prefer to erase my drive and install from scratch. With the recovery
for Big Sur 11.1 this is impossible, Voiceover completely crashes when
trying to access the table of disks in disk utility. So, I had to boot
a Catalina recovery to erase my drive. Once that was done I booted from
the Big Sur install drive I made and the install completed fine.
I think there is a major issue with adding or removing items from the
dock. Previously you could move to an item and then press the up arrow
which would give you the menu for that item. In Big Sur, this works the
first time although when you select the option to remove from dock or
keep in dock, that action does not take place. After that, bringing up
the context menu for a dock item is impossible, pressing up arrow,
using vo+shift+m or right clicking the mouse on the item just returns
you to the desktop.
The next issue is with the new messages app, while it's useable, the
experience is cumbersome at best. Voiceover tends to get stuck and you
can't navigate left or right, you have to either use the tab key or use
Voiceover's go to beginning or go to end commands to try to get out of
the area that Voiceover is stuck in. Also, when writing a message, the
read current line command does not work. This is the first time I've
really been disappointed with an operating system upgrade, as I said,
more than likely I will be going back to Catalina, I may play with it
for another couple days but if I can't make these things work better
than that's what I'm going to do.
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