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Dictation mode: apps to test

Nicholas Riley edited this page Mar 20, 2022 · 10 revisions

When testing the latest version of accessibility dictation, here is a good sample of applications/use cases to try:

Easy

  • TextEdit (both plain and rich text)
  • Notes.app, Messages.app, Reminders
  • Any native/raw text areas/input fields on websites that are not WYSIWYG/rich text (e.g. GitHub PR comment field, Reddit comment area)

Moderate

  • Slack (direct download, not Mac App Store), Discord
  • Microsoft: Word, Outlook
  • Chrome: URL bar
  • IDEs: JetBrains editors, VSCode
  • Websites:
    • Any javascript-based WYSIWYG/rich text editing input fields
    • Google Search text field
    • Gmail's reply field, compose window
    • Google Docs comment box, the "event title" field in Google Calendar's "create new event" pop up
  • Apple Mail or other native apps that use content-editable text areas for editing (use AXTextMarkerRef / AXTextMarkerRange etc.)

Hard

  • Google Docs, Dropbox Paper, Quip
  • OneNote

Notes

This is sort of arbitrarily populated/ sorted by applications at the maintainers use the most.

"Easy, moderate, and hard" is based on how complicated an app's input model is (complex rich text with tables/images/etc is much more difficult) and how native it is.

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