> I want to emphasise that the “Safari not responding” bug is far from the only issue effecting VoiceOver users on Mac. As our recent post on problems in macOS Sonoma and the replies outline, there are numerous other VoiceOver frustrations and failures impacting users.
As a web developer who is committed to supporting blind and disabled users in general, I'm just getting deep into all of this now, and so far I can say that VO is the worst of the three screen readers for web usage. It has fallen far behind on standards support for modern aria attributes, completely ignoring many of them in practice, to the point where it's not possible to always achieve intended screen reader behaviour in VO.
Much as with Safari, Apple only seems to pays lip service to support of VO, completely blind users seem to only ever use VO if given no other option, but many online stats muddy OS usage with web usage to make this less obvious.