Be able to close the dialog box without opening a new vault.
Be able to tell the difference between the left and right Expand/Collapse buttons. Right now they only say Expand or Collapse which is not enough when navigating by keyboard.
Actual result
The button to expand the right panes is invisible. You need to hunt for the Expand button on the right side with the mouse right now.
The dialog to open another vault canāt be closed until you find the close button with the mouse pointer. You should be able to close the window with Escape or Cmd-W or navigate to the close button with normal VoiceOver keyboard navigation. You need to hunt for the close button with the mouse right now.
Iām using Voice Control on my Mac today because my RSI is acting up.
However, it looks like I canāt use Voice Control with Obsidian. Iāve defaulted to talking to Drafts to input text and then cutting and pasting into Obsidian.
Luckily, I donāt need Voice Control every day, but other users might. Please add this to the Roadmap if possible.
Let me know if Iāve missed a setting to turn this on in Obsidian.
Another issue with VoiceOver enabled is the inability to type anything into the search box. The error says ātable not foundā until you turn off VoiceOver so you can type in a search term.
Navigating settings using VoiceOver many controls cannot be accessed/enabled/disabled
Steps to reproduce
Start Voiceover (Cmd-F5)
Start Obsidian
Using VoiceOver keyboard commands navigate to and Open Settings
Using VoiceOver keyboard commands navigate to and select Core Plugins
Using VoiceOver keyboard commands navigate to and select the Sync plugin
From this point there seems to be no way to toggle the setting on or off
Expected result
That the plugin can be activated or deactivated as desired
Actual result
No control of the setting can be accessed via VoiceOver actions
Environment
Operating system: Mac OS Big Sur 11.4
Obsidian version: 0.12.5
Additional information
This is consistent across all settings; the actual controls are not accessible from VoiceOver.
Iām late to this party but I strongly up vote this feature request.
For background, I was excited to discover obsidian and try it on my Mac, but unfortunately it doesnāt support the speech recognition built into MacOS.
Actually, itās more puzzling than that. MacOS allows you to do ad hoc dictation by pressing the command key twice. That works fine with obsidian.
But you can also turn on Voice Control to control your Mac with your voice, which saves a great deal of wear and tear on your carpal tunnel. But it disables the ad hoc dictation described above and replaces it with a more robust version of speech recognition. Thatās a good thing for most apps other than obsidian, but for some reason obsidian doesnāt support that speech recognition. Which means I have to turn off voice control in order to dictate into obsidian. Sadly, thatās a nonstarter for me and my aging hands.
Would that I had the technical chops to provide a solution for this but I donāt. That said, Iād love to see a fix in some future version of obsidian.
In brief, when reading any document with VoiceOver (VO) thatās longer than the screen, that is to say, the document can not all fit on the screen at once, VO cannot āseeā anything not on screen. When this happens it prevents scrolling in the document and prevents VO form reading it.
Steps to reproduce
Have a longish document.
Have VoiceOver On
Engage with the editor portion
VO Navigate Down through text
Expected result
As VO reads text, it scrolls the document until it reaches the bottom/end of content.
Actual result
VO stops reading at the end of the window. The document does not scroll. VO menus and searches do not recognize anything not on screen.
Environment
macOs Big Sur
Obsidian 12.0
Obsidian is mostly accessible with VoiceOver, but could be really improved. This particular issue makes using Obsidian essentially impossible as longer documents just canāt be read. The notes landscape for folks with vision issues isā¦ barren. Experts have advised me to use macOsās TextEdit for my all my notes and documents (Iām a PhD student). I hope that gives you a sense of why this sort of thing matters. Iām happy to be as engaged in the resolution and improvement process and would be helpful / supportive. Obsidian is just amazing, and I love it. Thanks to devs for the hard and creative work!
Sorry for the long term reply - I happens in both modes.
It makes a ton of sense for this functionality - it just makes it unusable. I cannot express how much better Obsidian is - Iāve had to āresortā to using Roam. Iād love to do some testing and help support access however I can!