what Mac apps do you have most difficulty using with voiceover

By Oliver Kennett, 16 October, 2026

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macOS and Mac Apps

I'm just tightening down TurnOver and would like the community's feedback on apps you most struggle with on Mac when using VoiceOver. There are some apps that work well with voiceover, of course... But I'm interested in the ones you wish were easier to use.

I'll Have a public beta of TurnOver out soon, but do want to know where to focus my efforts in patching VoiceOver's shortcommings.

Cheers

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By FmNgqRZd on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 00:47

  • 1Password
  • Battle.net
  • Cisco Packet Tracer
  • Docker Desktop
  • iPhone Mirroring
  • KeePassXC
  • Logic Pro
  • Maps
  • Numbers
  • Pages
  • Parallels
  • Photos
  • Shortcuts
  • Siri
  • VLC
  • XCode

By ziixies on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 05:46

Apps.

Microsoft Word.

Website websites.

Instagram, Facebook, X, Google Docs/sheets, Microsoft Office online, YouTube, occasionally, BBC, tech advisor

By Maldalain on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 05:57

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word etc), Microsoft Teams, iWork (Pages, Numbers etc), App Store, Safari, social media (Facebook, Messenger etc)and shopping (eBay and Amazon) sites, Finder, Chrome, Brave, native Mail app.

By ziixies on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 06:55

Opera, WhatsApp, Google messages, Spotify, Discord, Kinda, iMovie,

By Dave Nason on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 10:29

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

WhatsApp, Libre Office, Music, Preview, Fastmail. Others will no doubt occur to me.

By Oliver Kennett on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 15:53

These are very helpful. Thank you. Of course, eventually I'd like Turnover to work with every app better than voiceover, but I do want to get the most used ones sorted first.

By Igna Triay on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 16:20

Parallels I don't struggle but it would be nice to have it accessible without ocr but it’s not a problem to use, for me at any rate.
Seconding as well pages, numbers, word etc. Microsoft teams too, to be fair this app is a nightmare as well on windows, its the app's ishue not the reader's but yeah.
Those are all that come to my head for now.

By Matthew Whitaker on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 16:31

Everyone so far has said every APp I could think of. lol
But yeah all of them.

By Khomus on Saturday, October 17, 2026 - 17:18

I'm just curious. Other than dumping me at the oldest message occasionally since updating to 27, it seems fine to me.