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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon hovancik

Weird clicking when using VoiceOver

Open jkjustjoshing opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Prerequisites

  • [x] I'm using latest version: 0.21.1
  • [x] I've checked Known issues

Description

When using VoiceOver, there is a constant clicking sound when the microbreak window is open.

Operating system: macOS 10.15.3

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Enable VoiceOver
  2. Wait for (or trigger) a break

Expected behavior: VoiceOver announces that it's time to take a break, optionally counting down the seconds (but better to not I'd think?)

Actual behavior: A weird clicking sound. My guess is VoiceOver keeps trying to read the content of the popover, but every instant it tries reading it the progress bar ticks farther along, forcing VoiceOver to start over. Only the first fraction of a second of the text reading gets emitted, and it repeats until the window disappears, at which time VoiceOver reads the content of the (now disappeared) window.

Reproduces how often: Always

jkjustjoshing avatar Feb 21 '20 17:02 jkjustjoshing

Hi @jkjustjoshing and thanks for the report. To be sure, you mean a built-in from Apple? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoiceOver

note to self: read more here https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10305

hovancik avatar Feb 23 '20 17:02 hovancik

Yep, happens when I have the built-in screen reader enabled.

To be clear, I don't use VoiceOver regularly - I'm a web developer and happened to be doing VoiceOver testing when my Stretchly popover appeared. So I'm not sure what the correct behavior would look like, just that the current functionality seems less-than-optimal.

jkjustjoshing avatar Feb 24 '20 14:02 jkjustjoshing

Hi, is still issue with latest? I wonder if I can help here, but not sure.

hovancik avatar Dec 23 '22 15:12 hovancik

No reply and this is pretty old, so closing. Let me know if this is still an issue

hovancik avatar Mar 18 '23 15:03 hovancik

Sorry for not replying. Yes, I just downloaded Stretchly v1.13.1, macOS version 13.2.1 on an M2 Pro Mac. See attached video. Please re-open.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/813192/226116111-32cb0bc3-c06b-4b44-b4c4-eb0063abf7da.mov

jkjustjoshing avatar Mar 18 '23 15:03 jkjustjoshing

Do you have some specific settings for Voice Over / Stretchly?

I am trying to reproduce but I do not get any weird noises.

hovancik avatar Mar 18 '23 17:03 hovancik

But I think the cause is VoiceOver trying to read time remaining, in your case, so https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly/pull/1288 should help fixing that, if you could try

hovancik avatar Mar 18 '23 17:03 hovancik

I've merged the change so let's see on the next version :)

hovancik avatar Apr 01 '23 18:04 hovancik