The last couple of months, I have been trying to improve the VoiceOver support of Spatterlight, but progress has been slow.
As far as I know, nobody uses Spatterlight with VoiceOver, and I really don’t know what VoiceOver users will expect or what kind of features would be useful.
I asked for testers here a couple of years ago, and the response was tentatively positive: Mac VoiceOver users wanted for testing
As I understand it, there are three basic problems with VoiceOver and most interactive fiction interpreters:
- When text in a scroll view is selected, VoiceOver will often start speaking from the top of the scrollback rather than the top of the visible text. This may be thousands of paragraphs above the current position.
- New text is not spoken automatically.
- Standard Infocom menus, such as the hint menus in the Solid Gold releases, are difficult to use, mainly because there is no quick way to find out which line is currently selected.
All three of these are improved in the unreleased code I am currently working on, so let me know if you are interested in trying it out.