IntelliJ accessibility is somewhat questionable with VO?

By TheBlindGuy07, 27 August, 2026

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App Development and Programming

Hello.
TLDR we're doing kotlin and soon, android development in college.
Just for curiosity sake I was like why not see if jetbrains accessibility for intellij is good? I tried pycharm and on mac it was quite good a year ago.
The thing is, most of the thing are okay if we ignore the occasional JavaAxIgnore, annoying but easy mosto f the time to get over, just interacting again in that element. But the main editor where the result shows, not the build logs but the actual terminal program, VO can see the editor but not read inside? VO shift l gives me the screenshot + ocr so I know it's exactly what I'm looking for, but no way for me to read it. Yes, I know, I could just code in the editor and do kotlinc / javac or whatever in the macos native terminal but then what's the point of the ide in the first place? I was especially wondering if this bug is also in pycharm now? Or has it always been there. I know that as a dev there are one easy solution, but it's for the sake of using the IDE. I mean, in VSCode I never torture myself on mac or windows but especially mac to use the integrated terminal and this workflow is quite good, but on windows the experience with intellij is smoother. @MR Grieves in particular you are quite into pycharm and jetbrains stuff so, any tip? Or should I just use macos terminal to run things?

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