Apple Releases OS X 10.10.3

The unlabeled and unknown buttons in the Time Machine controls have been corrected.

Wondering if the bug that prevents portable preferences from being usable is still present.

Also of note, the back bug in safari is fixed, go back a page and not have to reload on applevis site.

When reading text on a webpage with the left and right arrow keys, and then pressing VO H or VO shift H, Voiceover now correctly switches focus so the text you arrow through changes in response to your move to a heading. This is described perhaps more articulately on the features and bugs of OS X Yosemite list at the following link. http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-mac-os-x-news/features-and-bugs-os-x-yosemite

does anyone know if in the latest update the bug where safari would sometimes say new tab when you first opened to to read a webpage or brows is fixed? this only happens sometimes where when you open safari vo says newt instead of focusing on the html window.

Hi, many of us claimed that with OSX Yosemite, Chrome was no longer usable via VoiceOver, because of interaction problems: for example you could get HTML contents to be read by using tab key, but then you could not explore the web page with VO+arrows, or compiling forms, or so.
Well, Chrome now seems to properly work since 10.10.3! The only, big, problem Chrome still has, is on tables.
If you have a complex table in a web page, when you enter it, VoiceOver does not read contents of columns and rows; it enters table but stays just silent till you go out from it.

Hello! I have been wanting to update to Yosemite but have not yet. Is this update relatively on par with Mavricks as far as Voiceover usability and reliability? Thanks!

Yeah, I believe that VO is now about the same than mavericks. I would update it if you wish. You'll get other answers, but I would honestly update.

Thank you! I think I will give it a try!

Yeah! it's completely up to you. Just remember to back up everything before you go incase you don't like it.

Hi all. I just updated to 10.10.3 about 15 minutes ago. The Back command in Safari worked for me both times I tried it. I haven't checked out Chrome yet, will do that later. I did, however, get a spoken notification about the new photo app and am wondering if it is safe to uninstall the old ones? I was able to navigate between buttons in this notification just fine. This looks like a great update.

I hope my experience is an anomaly, but my Mac mini is not liking this OS update.

The first time I tried to install the update, the installer got hung up, forcing me to restore from a Time Machine backup to get my computer up and running again. A second attempt a couple of days later was successful, however.

After the update, the Mac asked me to re-enter my Gmail password, and I got an email from Gmail warning me that someone tried to access my account using a less secure method and that the access was blocked. The info provided in the email made it clear that my Mac was responsible for this. Fortunately, I did not have to do anything special to get things working, as my computer continues to get mail from Gmail just fine after I re-entered my password.

As for Safari, I can confirm that the Back button issue is fixed. However, on at least a couple of websites I visited, VoiceOver had major problems navigating the site. Navigating by headings failed miserably, and VoiceOver kept moving focus to seemingly random places on the site. This reminded me of VoiceOver's behavior in Safari under iOS 7 on the iPad, and I never expected to encounter anything like it on the Mac. It is ironic that Safari on iOS is now behaving much better for me than on the Mac, a complete reversal from the days before iOS 8 and Yosemite.

It is possible that there's something screwed up with my Mac mini, so I may try a fresh install of Yosemite to see if that clears things up.

Try a fresh install. As for your gmail issue its ssl certificate expired last weekend. You might want to do a full clean install and a permission repair as I'm not having any issues at all.

Hi,
Is it just me, or is Safari behaving very strangely when navigating tables on web pages in the latest Safari? On many pages VO just gets stuck when I try to read a table. Some forum sites and similar are especially bad. Is there something I can do about this?

First off, I'd like to confirm that Google Chrome does seem to work again with VO. Regarding the table issue in Safari with 10.10.3, this happened to me on the American Foundation for the Blind's site when trying to read the latest issue of "AccessWorld." I haven't tried out any other sites containing tables since I updated, and I'm going to go back to the email update which I received from the AFB and try accessing "AccessWorld" from there and see what happens. I'll also try with Chrome. But perhaps you should report this issue to accessibility@apple.com . Update: I had some time to kill just a little bit ago so I revisited this issue. The "AccessWorld" site doesn't work correctly in VO when launching it directly from Safari, but it did work for me when just clicking on the article links in the email. Then I went into System Preferences, under General, and switched the default browser to Chrome. Chrome worked fine on that site both in the email and when launching the site directly from within the browser. So something odd is definitely going on here. I'm honestly debating whether to report this issue to the accessibility folks at Apple, or just let it slide. To me it really isn't that big of a deal, because Safari does work. It's just this one small quirk that is present, but to each his own.

Yes, I'm going to report it to Apple. It's a very annoying problem.

I have a Focus 14 Braille display. On iOs, there is a shortcut to move through the different options in the rotor item I selected which is space bar+dot 3 or 6. This is not working on OS X and as you would understand it is not productive to go back and fort from the keyboard to the display. I eared from a developer that this bugs is present since the first beta of Yosemite, it was reported and I also did and stills no being fixed

How to make changes in web rotor option if I want to add buttons. One more query: How to go to end of webpage?by FN VO right arrow it's moving to end paragraphs. Please guide. Thanks and regards.

I think there might be an option in VO utility for web rotor where you can possibly add things. Or, maybe that is only in iOS where you can select and deselect options in the VO rotor menu in VO settings. I honestly don't use the rotor at all. You press CTRL+option+U to access the rotor menus, go to the button menu with VO right arrow, and find the button you want then press VO space on the button. I think that is right, they've changed the rotor, how it reads using the keyboard. I've never noticed that before, use the track pad commander with rotor. Actually thats a whole lot easier.

chetnamore, please create a forum topic for your questions. We're happy to help, but you will get more answers from a wider range of people by posting a new topic, and people who have your same questions will be able to find answers much more easily. Thank you.

Regarding the rotor yeah you can change things in vo utility then web. and dont' press vo space on th button, link, etc bu press enter twice. That aso works as well and is for me a lot faster You can also type in your choice in the button, link, etc section until you filter it to a few choices. it's rad man. Lol!