VoiceOver Trackpad Behaviour

By Minionslayer, 15 April, 2023

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hi AppleVis,
So I was toying with the idea of getting more used to actual mouse and trackpad gestures on MacOS. Some of these are really handy; in fact some pretty basic concepts (E.G. non-contiguous selection) don't even have system-wide, non-VO-dependent keyboard equivalents.
There's just one question I had though, regarding what VO announces when interacting with a pointing device. VO reads what the cursor hovers over fine, but whenever I actually click down on something, and then move the cursor, VO no longer reads what's under it, meaning I get no audible feedback when dragging something. Coming from Windows originally, I find this pretty weird and I was wondering if this was intentional or some weird bug. If it's on purpose, is there a way to change this?
That's it for now; thanks for reading.

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