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Dictation mode: apps to test

Phil Cohen 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:

Applications

  • Communication: Slack (direct download, not Mac App Store), Discord
  • Built-in: TextEdit (both plain and rich text)
  • Microsoft: Word, Outlook, OneNote
  • Apple/iCloud: Notes.app, Messages.app, Reminders
  • Chrome: URL bar
  • IDEs: JetBrains editors, VSCode

Websites

  • Raw <textarea> (GitHub PR comment field, Reddit comment area)
  • 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

This is sort of arbitrarily sorted by applications at the maintainers use the most. I might sort this into "easy, moderate, and hard" based on how complicated an app's input model is (complex rich text is much more difficult) and how native it is.

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