Hello all.
So with Safari I am not able to hear what I am typing in the prompt.
It looks like Safari does not recognise that widget as a text field after all.
Even when I search Using single key quick navigation, I don’t find any text field.
The place where I am able to type is now called popup dialog button, but it actually is the field where we type.
Words are not spoken, deletion is not announced nothing behaves like it is a text edit.
Further more I am not able to go to the upload dialog to upload files etc.
This actually works on Chrome pretty fine, so wondering if everyone here is experiencing this?
By kk_macker, 29 June, 2025
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There are random bugs since…
There are random bugs since 4-5 months, but very recently yes the edit text is not really accessible. You can still do shift escape to focus into it, type text, you won't hear what you write but with arrow keys and other regular mac text command you can still read/modify everything while writing.
HTH
Same issue under IOS
Trying to type something on ChatGpt/S safari version since yesterday, under IOS, but mentioned issue occured also here.
Textfield says something like message composer and everything, what you're writing isn't getting heard. Upload button has been completly gone.
Works like a charm with Chrome
So this works like a charm in Chrome.
Upload file works too.
In fact off late a lot of things have become very accessible with Chrome, including amazon and linkedin.
Wondering what's wrong with Safari, but good for us that Chrome is doing the job perfectly.
Chrome on the other hand...
Well, if you're tired of dealing with errors and accessibility issues in Safari and thinking of switching to Chrome, I’ve got bad news for you. Pretty soon, you’ll notice how broken VoiceOver is with Chrome too—like how it treats the same text as if they were separate groups, slowing down navigation, or how sluggish it gets on the YouTube website. Selecting text is also a pain, since arrow keys don’t work the same way they do in Safari when navigating by line. Web browsing is a mess. We shouldn't have to use different browsers just to get a decent experience—it’s unacceptable, but no one seems to care. I’m really loving my Mac, and I’d love it even more if web browsing actually worked better.
Chrome braking pretty soon?
How soon is the pretty soon?
I am wondering How do you know in advance/. Is this a result out of some beta testing?
Well, it is correct that Safari should actually give the best experience because it is the default OS browser. But for a long time, google sheets and slides has been excelent with chrome from accessibility point of view. Google docs is good too except for the read all issue. So all in all chrome is doing good, just that I am getting concerned if it gets broken. Google sheets and slides are what I use day in and day out. Can't afford to loose their accessibility.
Chrome and ChatGPT
Chrome isn't without its flaws. I use it exclusively instead of Safari, but there's plenty of functionality I miss.
Specifically with ChatGPT, you'll discover that Chrome automatically reads ChatGPT's response about 3 out of 4 times. And when it doesn't, navigating to the response text is tremendously inconvenient. I find myself jumping to that copy button more and more and simply reading the response in TextEdit.