Hi,
So I don't know when this started in Tahoe. Or whether it's propagated to older versions too. But at the time of writing this, the latest version fo iwork app (tested in pages) have an old bug back.
Tldr, VoiceOver will, again, say the text style (body, etc) at each keystroke whenever you are selecting text with the macos standard commands in the text area.
Example.
You have the following sentence.
This is a small text.
And the cursor is somewhere there.
You want to remove "a small".
You'll do opt left / right until the cursor is at small or a.
Do opt left/right twice.
VO will forever announce body at and after the second word / element being selected. This may not seems bad, but @trust me bro benchmark, it really is. Even worse, depending on the voice you use, for example I use alison us in english and eloquence fr-fr. Amelie in French sometimes too. With eloquence at least, there is an extra milliseconds pause between body (or whatever the text style is) and the actual text being announced.
Just when I thought iWork has finally become usable enough , this old bug has been reintroduced.
HTH.
By TheBlindGuy07, 15 May, 2026
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