Safari users having problems with google?

Hello,
I was also seeing this. Here is what I did that seemed to solve the issue. FIRST open up the voiceover utility. Change to the navigation payne. Next look for the option about the mouse cursor. Set it to ignore the vo cursor. Hopefully this will help you.

Greg Wocher

Hi Chuck

I had the same issue but it disappeared after I logged out of Google in my Safari browser. Then I did a little test and it is not only the Safari browser which alters the Google search results if you are logged into your Google account. It seems to me that when you are logged in to the Google account you get some more information about the search results - maybe as an additional service but not convenient for us.
Regards
Soren

Each search result header is now in a group along with the URL and other text. If you interact with that group (VO+Down Arrow), you can then skip past the URL and other junk and get to the actual title of the result. Why Google did this, I don't know.

Each search result header is a header level 3, but I tried jumping to header level 3 by turning on quick nav and using the 3 key, and VoiceOver still seems to want to read the entire group starting with the URL rather than just the header itself.

This is very frustrating. I'm not sure who to file this issue with, Google or Apple.

Hello,
This is not just a google problem. When I do searches on my windows machine it does not exhibit this behavior. I thought the mouse would help. It helped me at first. Just yesterday however it reverted to showing me the URL before the title of the result. This is odd.

Greg Wocher

This is partially an issue with the way VoiceOver works, but also an issue with the Google search change. On Windows at least with NVDA if you go by heading the results are read fine, but if you tab through the page instead you get the same problem as on the mac.

We reached out to Google accessibility with a friend on Twitter and they asked to contact the disability support team with the problem report and they will file it in the right place.

Hello.
As has been stated, it is a Google issue. The reason being, as I have learned, Google has visually redesigned their search results to be more appealing.
My suggestion is to just not bother reporting it, as in my opinion, Google is not worth using for privacy concerns. Just use DuckDuckGo or another not-for-profit search engine which is doing some good to help the planet.

When Google displays its search results, I hit VO+U and arrow left or right until the list of Headers appears. Now I've got a nice list of just headers with no URL prefixes. Works better than the old Google search results as I can just up and down arrow through the list. I should've used this technique years ago.

Unfortunately, Google has updated search to be more visually distracting by adding favicons to the results. Supposedly this is to let users know which results are more reputable. As part of this update, Google also inserted the site URL as well as an arrow icon next to the URL. Although I am able to replicate this VoiceOver issue on both Safari and Chrome on Mac OS, it doesn’t appear to be a problem on Windows browsers and associated screen reader combinations. The following LifeHacker article provides steps for filtering out the new changes to Google search and should revert the experience back to the previous behavior. How to Fix Google's Ugly, Logo-Filled Search Results https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-googles-ugly-logo-filled-search-results-1841062453 Alternatively, switching the browser agent string to mobile provides a more usable experience.

HaiTech is correct in the change. Tech blogs are also flooded with disgruntled sighted users. The Favicons are not popular. Looks like some accessibility regression with Google.
I’ve used Duck Duck Go for years. Cleaner UI, and not EVIL like Google/Alphabet.