Strange issue with Safari and Google search results on mac

By Greg Wocher, 1 January, 2020

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hello all,
I have been encountering a strange issue when doing google searches in safari on my mac. I am running macOS catalina 10.15.3. After doing the search I move to each result using headings. For some reason when I do this instead of reading me the heading it reads me the actual web address. It is only doing this on my mac in google searches. Headings work just fine in other websites. Also this does not happen on my windows machine. Anyone else seeing this?

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By brandon armstrong on Sunday, January 5, 2020 - 17:09

I'm not seeing this, how ever when i type in google searches i now get things from yahoo when i have my search engine set to google.

By Danil on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 17:09

I found out the reason just few days before. Turn off «Mouse cursor follows VoiceOver cursor» (don’t really know how this is called in English) in VoiceOver Utility.

By Daniel Angus M… on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 17:09

hello,

isn't 10.15.3 still in beta? if so, discussion of this beta is not allowed on AppleVis
regards,
Daniel

By AlienX on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 17:09

Yes it is still in beta.

And Google is playing with out minds. Time to find a better search engine.

By Chuck Winstead on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 17:09

It does seem like changing VO settings isn't making any difference. Neither is logging out of Google.
I think like I was told on my forum about this about a day prior it's a google problem. I submitted a complaint about it, but whether google will fix this I have no idea.
I'd say like many have told me switch to a different search engine for the time being.
Chuck

By PaulMartz on Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 17:09

A nice Valentine's Day gift, apparently. I don't see the problem in Google search results anymore. Is it fixed for everyone, or am I just hallucinating?

By Dave Nason on Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 17:09

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Yes, it looks to be fixed for me too. Thank goodness!