Voiceover and Writing Tools Issue on Mac

By Mert Ozer, 11 March, 2025

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Hi folks,

I’ve been experimenting with the writing tools feature on Mac. When I select some text and have the AI write it in a professional, friendly, or concise way; it does the job. But I can’t see the written text by using VoiceOver navigation commands; I always have to click on Done, then that’s when I can read what the Apple Intelligence actually changed. Same goes for the proofread option as well. Any workarounds? Is it another accessibility issue Apple has yet to fix?

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By FmNgqRZd on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 05:54

Use VO-J to move between the writing tools dialog and the document. If you're dealing with multiple changes, pressing the next/previous buttons will show an extra popup that explains the change and why it's being suggested. Use Escape to close those.

By Ekaj on Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 05:54

These new tools worked well, at least most of them did I think. I composed a short journal entry and then had it re-written using the tools, but I haven't checked them out since then. At the time they seemed to work well. Thanks for the VO-J suggestion. I'll definitely have to try it out next time.

By Mert Ozer on Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 05:54

Wow; I had just forgotten about VO+j as it was pretty buggy and was not really obvious what it was going to happen after VO+j, but it works well here. I was just using vO+[/VO+] to navigate between window hotspots. Thanks very much.