Then turn it off again, for apps which are accessible it is more likely to mess
things up and you should never turn it on unless you use an app which is not
accessible, then you can try screen recognition which as the name implies,
allows Voiceover to perform OCR on the screen similar to
The odd thing is that some apps with screen
recognition turned on don't display at
all. Before the last couple of updates the app
that talks to our scale would read buttons--BMI,
for example, and the associated values (which I
will spare you). Since the last couple of
updates, screen
Hi,
If you are playing around with screen recognition, I recommend adding it to the
rotor. Then when you're in an app that isn't completely accessible, you can
easily turn it on and see if it helps, and easily turn it off again if it
doesn't. Also, if it gets inadvertently turned on in an app,
And, in some apps, if it is on; the app becomes far less accessible.
The Sonos app works fine without it; but if it gets turned on; things stop
reading correctly.
Richard
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss
people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hello Terri,
Screen recognition is quite handy for apps which lack accessibility. For
instance, in the Telegram app, parts of that app work better with screen
recognition on, as the elements are either not accessible to Voiceover, or
aren't labeled. Voiceover uses AI to try to make those parts
