TurnOver 2.0, build 22

TurnOver 2.0, build 22

Changed

• CoExist is gone: TurnOver is a full screen reader from the first launch, and one reader speaks at a time. While
  TurnOver is on VoiceOver is off; Command Control Period quits TurnOver and starts it again. VoiceOver is no longer
  kept running and silenced alongside it, so nothing asks for audio recording permission any more, and TurnOver's own
  braille and sounds are on. Password fields and macOS's own prompts are TurnOver's to read; what you type in a
  password field is still never spoken or logged. Discussion 46.
• Screen reader behaviour: TurnOver is on or off, VoiceOver is on or off, and that is all. TurnOver reads everywhere
  while it is on; no apps are labelled for either reader and nothing switches as you change apps. A new Settings
  section, Screen reader behaviour, holds one switch: TurnOver and VoiceOver swap, one coming on as the other goes
  off (TurnOver turns VoiceOver off as it starts and on as it quits, comes on when VoiceOver turns off and steps aside
  when VoiceOver comes on). Off, each reader has its own switch and neither changes the other, for VoiceOver reading
  inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Readers per app (the lists, the modes, switching as apps change) are
  folded away inside that section, off for a new install; a set-up that already uses them keeps working as it did.
• TurnOver turns VoiceOver on by starting it, not by its keyboard shortcut, which can be changed or stop working;
  and VoiceOver's own shortcut passes straight through TurnOver's keys instead of waiting on them. Command Control
  Period waits for Command and Control to be let go before TurnOver quits, so VoiceOver's shortcut arrives cleanly.
• The welcome, on a first start and after this update, presents TurnOver as a full screen reader, and names the
  three keyboard styles, the menu, the Settings window and the copy of your VoiceOver settings by their keys.
• The menu is short, in NVDA's shape: This app, Settings, Keys, Tools, Help, Support TurnOver, Quit. Every setting
  now lives in the Settings window, in sections down the side: General, Speech, Keyboard, Item details, Web pages,
  Documents, Screen recognition, Other apps' speech, Screen reader behaviour. Braille waits under Tools until it has
  its section.
• Settings: voices for other languages are in the Speech section (a voice and a rate for each language with a voice
  installed); the Voice list is the Mac's languages and English, Eloquence first; Steam's two switches (game speech,
  and reading Big Picture) and Restart Steam are in Other apps' speech as well as under Games in the menu; the
  settings keys (Command Control Comma, then S, and the style's own) open the window at the asked section; Previous
  builds, under About and updates, opens the releases page for going back to an earlier build.
• Command Control M opens the TurnOver menu in one press, in every keyboard style. Command Control Comma then M
  still works.
• VoiceOver keys: Left and Right pressed together, which turn Quick Nav off and on, now also switch a document between
  focus mode and browse mode: off is focus mode (the keys go to the page, until the focus leaves), on is browse mode.
  There was no deliberate way into focus mode in this style, since TurnOver Space is VO-Space.
• Browse mode: a letter is always a command, as in NVDA; a field is typed into after Return or Tab enters it.
• Pressing a control on a web page now says what changed: on or off, checked or not, expanded or collapsed,
  selected. A page that changes the control a moment later (Squarespace's switches take a second or two) is still
  reported, with the control's name if you have moved on. VO-Space presses the control through accessibility, as
  VoiceOver's VO-Space does; Enter and Space send the real key, as before, so a page that ignores one answers the
  other. A menu button that ignores the accessibility press (the Claude app's More options) is opened by the keyboard.
• Notification Centre: VO-O opens the panel and the key again closes it; the Notification Centre and Control Centre
  keys find the clock wherever macOS puts it; a panel left open before TurnOver started is handled.
• VO-Shift-L recognises the whole screen when the cursor is not on a picture, a direct recognition key in the Mac
  style.
• The typing echo is private: typed words are never written to the log or carried in a report.

Fixed

• VoiceOver comes back after a quit, a crash or a long hang, also when macOS says it is on but it is not running
  (quit by a script, or crashed), and waking the Mac from sleep no longer toggles VoiceOver.
• With NVDA or JAWS keys, the layer that makes Caps Lock the NVDA key where VoiceOver reads can be turned off: Settings,
  Keyboard, "NVDA and JAWS keys where VoiceOver reads too" (on, as before). Off, VoiceOver's own Caps Lock keys
  (VO-F7, VO-F8, VO-M) work in the apps VoiceOver reads. The old setting for it was never read.
• The speech settings are TurnOver's own again: the rate, volume and pitch keys change TurnOver's voice only, and
  TurnOver no longer reads VoiceOver's rate when it takes over. The link between the two readers' settings wasn't
  reliable.
• TurnOver Settings: the switches in Screen reader behaviour are read with their names on Tab (the window gives a
  switch its label a moment after Tab lands on it; TurnOver now waits for it); changing a switch no longer pauses
  for a second and a half; Tab never lands on a control the window has thrown away when the section changes (a
  contributor's change); a Settings window left open through an update is closed, since it showed TurnOver as off.
• Safari: a page that moves the focus into an empty frame by itself (an advertisement loading) no longer takes
  TurnOver off the page.
• VoiceOver keys: Right Arrow reads the character you just passed, as VoiceOver does, so what you hear is what
  Backspace will delete. NVDA keys and JAWS keys keep reading the character after the caret, as on Windows.
• Backspace speaks the deleted character at once, instead of after waiting for the caret (Mail's compose window held
  every repeated Backspace back by a quarter of a second).
• A list focused twice within half a second with a different row selected (Finder opening a folder) is read
  each time; it was taken for the same focus and read once.
• Braille: a Focus 5 by USB is found, and freed from VoiceOver's braille server; a message held on the display gives
  way to the next command, as in NVDA (two of a contributor's changes).
• Word's own dictionary decides what is misspelled in Word; the choice now lives in Word's app module instead of
  shared code, with tests (a contributor's change).
• The app shortcut picker offers every application once: Safari and other apps reached through a link were missing,
  and some appeared twice (a contributor's change).
• Waking the Mac no longer says TurnOver is not responding in the system's voice, several times over itself. The
  watchdog took the sleep for a hang; it now knows the difference, and its warnings are said one at a time.
• Finder: Command Down on a folder, and Command Up, are sent again if Finder ignored them. About one press in
  twenty did nothing although the key reached Finder; now, if nothing has changed a third of a second later, the key
  goes once more. Only for a folder, never for a file, so nothing opens twice. A symptom fix; the cause is in Finder.
• Finder: an empty folder is read as empty, and Down Arrow in it says so. It was read as a list of four or five
  items, and the arrows walked through the columns.
• A menu item, button or link with no name of its own is named by the text it holds (GitHub Desktop's lists of
  repositories and branches were nameless menu items).