So, after playing with the new operating system a bit more, I'm going
to stick with it rather than going back to Catalina although I still
think that Apple has taken several steps backward with this new OS. I
figure there's no point going back to an old operating system even if
it's a bit easier for some things.
I do hope Apple fixes the bug with using the dock, but I have an
acceptable work around for that. I prefer not to open the applications
folder every time I want to open an app which is what I used the dock
for. Since this is currently not possible, I have made aliases for the
applications I use the most and put them on my desktop.
Regarding the messages application, I think I have found what I would
consider to be a major voiceover bug and it's one reason I was having
so much trouble with the app. Voiceover has a setting that determines
how groups are handled, I usually use the bookend groups option since
this eliminates the need to interact with items as much. This setting
does not currently work with the messages app. Basically the new
messages app has two sections, the conversations list and to the right
of that is the area where the selected conversation is displayed. If
you use one of the other voiceover group settings besides standard,
once you move in to one of these areas, voiceover will get stuck there
and you cannot get out of this section and go to the other one. Since I
usually use the bookend groups setting, I created an activity for the
messages app that switches to the standard setting instead. Unlike the
messages app in Catalina, you can no longer use just the arrow keys to
select a conversation, you must interact with the conversations list
and use voiceover to select the conversation you want. Also, when
opening the context menu for a conversation, you must use the voiceover
up and down commands to move through the menu, using the regular arrow
keys will not work.
I've also found an odd issue with the notification center, in previous
operating systems, when an application requested to use the
notification center, the prompt would appear and there were buttons to
allow or deny the request. With Big Sur, either those buttons do not
appear or Voiceover does not see them. You have to press
VO+command+space to open the actions menu to respond to the notification.
I really hope Apple fixes some of these issues, I would consider some
of them to be major.
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