My Mac Mini is running Tahoe 26.5.
When composing an email message in the Mail app, if I paste text, VoiceOver announces "paste," and then reads the entire text I pasted. The "paste" announcement is new behavior since I upgraded from Sequoia.
Is there any way to turn off the "paste" announcement? It's unnecessary and distracting. Other native MacOS apps don't exhibit the same behavior (notably TextEdit), Messages, and Pages. So it's unclear why Apple felt it was necessary in the Mail app.
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this is how it should behave
This is how it should behave. It confirms what you wanted was indeed done. It is also consistent across platforms as the iPhone behaves the same way.
No way to turn it off, huh?
Well, I don't believe for a second that this is how it should behave. If it should behave this way, it would have been added years ago across all native apps. Instead, it appears out of nowhere on Tahoe, and then only in Mail but not one single other app.
But, from the non-responses to this thread, I guess I can infer that there's no way to turn this off.
Seems like Apple didn't learn any lessons from their misguided Writing Tools in Action menu fiasco in Sequoia.
It's strange that this only happens specificly in the mail app
I still use Sequoia, and it’s also present in Sequoia 15.5. I’m not sure why it’s only in this specific app, but the announcement doesn’t bother me. I don’t understand why it would disturb anyone, really, as you could just hit Control to shot it off if you’re doing something. Do I need the announcement? Definitely not, but I don’t see it as a problem.
"body" announcement in Pages
Unrelated to pasting, there is a similar extraneous announcement in Pages.
Create a new document in Pages, type "This is a test," then jump to top of document. Now select the text a word at a time using Chift+Option+Right Arrow.
I expect VoiceOver to announce "This, is, a, test."
Instead, it announces, "Body this, body is, body a, body test."
When selecting text by word, the user typically wants to hear what they're selecting, so they'll know when to stop. The additional announcement of "body" slows down the selection operation, as I have to wait just that fraction of a second longer to know what I'm selecting.
Same problem when selecting a character at a time. VoiceOver announces, "Body T, body h, body i, body s, body space ..."
Yes, I have verbosity set to Low.
Stupid human question
Would turning down the verbosity on VO help with this at all?