macOS Home Assistant Companion App: No Accessibility Features

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Device model, version and app version

Model Name: Mac mini 2024 Apple M4 macOS Version: macOS Sequoia 15.2 App Version: Home Assistant Companion App version 2024.12.2 (2024.1058) Safari Version: Version 18.2 (20620.1.16.11.8)

Home Assistant Core Version

2025.1.2

Describe the bug Home Assistant does not correctly report the focused UI element using Apple's Accessibility features. When a text field in Home Assistance has keyboard focus, the Accessibility API does not report a UI element with the role “text field” or “text area” as having focus, but rather a generic group. This prevents Accessibility-enabled tools from being able to detect when a user might need assistance typing into a text field.

Specifically, the issue is that, when a text field is focused in Home Assistant, the "AXFocusedUIElement" attribute of the system-wide UI element does not indicate a UI element with the role “AXTextField” or “AXTextArea” is focused.

To Reproduce Install macOS 15.2 Install Home Assistant Companion App version 2024.12.2 (2024.1058) On a touch screen set the focus into a text field

Expected behavior When a text field in Home Assistance Companion has keyboard focus, the Accessibility API should report a UI element with the role “text field” or “text area” as having focus.