VirtualBox Accessibility for Mac OS X Hosts Reduced, Possibly Others

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

I checked the changelogs between 3.0.12, when VirtualBox was (imperfectly, but adequately in conjunction with the command-line) accessible on Mac OS X, using VoiceOver. Now, and confirmed as of VirtualBox 3.1.4 by others, whatever accessibility provided by QT disappeared. What has changed? Can we have the accessibility back? I have transitioned one of my machines per force to Fusion, a native app that does accessibility quite well.

To launch VoiceOver, press Cmd+F5.

[aeichner]

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

[chibop]

Thank you for improving accessibility. It seemed improved quite a bit since last time I tried a couple of years ago.

However, there are still accessibility issues with VB 5.1.26 on Mac with VoiceOver.

• In VB Manager, you can't tell which vm is slected. VoiceOver reports Grow area is empty.
• In preference or In VM setting, if you activate one of the tab with control+option+space, Voiceover reports that it's checked. However, it is not. You have to similate a physical mouse click with control+option+shift+space instead.
• In input tab of preference, VoiceOver can't read nor modify the shortcut list.
• In VM Setting, can't change pop-up menus with VoiceOver.
• In storage tab of VM setting, can't read the tree nor add new storage with VoiceOver.

Thank you for your help!