Since I upgraded to MacOS 15.5, when VoiceOver encounters a forward slash ('/'), it announces it as "solidus." This happens regardless of voice. I've encountered this in the Mac Mail app but not elsewhere. When I copy the text in question and paste it into TextEdit, voiceOver announces it as "slash." Same behavior in the AppleVis text box.
Does anyone know why this change was made apparently only to the native Mac Mail client? Clearly, I can add a pronunciation entry. But, for sanity's sake, I'd just like to understand what on earth Apple is thinking.
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I have seen this too in some cases
where I first noticed it was when I named a file with / characters in it in Finder. It happened there too, and like you said, copying the character shows it is a regular / character.
Different text API?
I wonder if the solidus issue is API specific. Mail, Finder, and anything else with the solidus issue is using one text API, and TextEdit, my browser, Scrivener, and anything else that doesn't exhibit this issue is using some other text API. But I have no idea how I would confirm this hypothesis.
Submitting a feedback report.
Can't create a reproducer case
I'm not going to open a feedback report because I wasn't able to reproduce this, not by sending myself an email with the slash character, nor by adding a slash to a file name in Finder. Levi, if you have a way to reproduce it, please open a feedback report. Thanks.