I’m definitely late to the party on this one but recently learned about an app called VOCR. As the name implies, it adds OCR (optical character recognition) ability to VoiceOver on the Mac.
The concept behind what the app does is straight forward. Run OCR on a full window or whatever is in the VoiceOver cursor, present the to the user with commands to move around and allow mouse clicks to be issued on the items detected. The app allows for positional audio to be turned on as well, giving you a sense of where on the screen items are appearing.
I’ve been using VOCR for a couple of days now to resolve some long-standing challenges with Parallels virtualization software on the Mac and VOCR has worked flawlessly.
You can download the app from https://github.com/chigkim/VOCR. Installation details are provided on the page.
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