Questions tagged [accessibility]
Systems implemented to enable persons with various disabilities to use personal computers and access information stored or displayed on them. These disabilities include impairment of vision, hearing, and problems with fine motor control in the hands.
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How to fast forward in YouTube app on iOS using bluetooth remote?
I am using an ArcX (http://arcx.fit) bluetooth remote.
I want to be able to hold left/right arrow to fast-forward and rewind YouTube videos.
The commands sent when using the remote buttons can be ...
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Can't (re-)authorize any Accessibility apps on Monterey (12.6.3)
After a forced reboot (and another reboot for good measure), the applications I allow to "Accessibility" control under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy no longer ...
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How do I get Dark Mode on Apple's Numbers
How do you get Numbers to be in Dark Mode. (The OS itself is in Dark Mode)
You can change the background of the spreadsheet buy use of Format Text
But how do you get the surrounds to be white on black ...
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How to enable Background Sounds (accessibility) from Terminal or Shortcuts?
On iOS there is a Shortcut action for enabling background sounds. This doesn't exist on macOS 13 Ventura, as far as I can tell.
I can enable background sounds manually by navigating to Accessibility -&...
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How can I access the higher function keys (F16 in particular) on a MacBook Pro?
I'm toying around with DOSBox in debugger mode and it seems that in order to break into the debug mode while running I need to run Alt-Pause which on the Mac is Alt+F16 (see DOSBoxWiki: Special Keys). ...
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Is there a way to securely log into a MacBook Pro without typing a password?
I have a motor disability that at times makes it difficult to type on a laptop keyboard. I am still able to use a MacBook Pro, especially when I connect it to an external keyboard. I normally use ...
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How to install macOS with no mouse or trackpad
I'm preparing a Mac mini for sale. I have no mouse or trackpad. Using just the wireless keyboard, I managed to reboot in Recovery Mode and erase the drive in Disk Utility. However, the Install ...
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Is there (or can I make) a shortcut to adjust size and location of the zoom (in settings -> accessibility)?
I often switch my laptop (running Monterey) between a TV, a monitor, and no external display. Quite often when I switch to the TV, the zoom window size in accessibility gets reset, and I have to open ...
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How can I increase the font size for all programs without changing the resolution on OS X El Capitan?
I wonder how I can increase the font size for all programs without changing the resolution on OS X El Capitan. I don't want to change the resolution:
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Trouble with Custom Mouse Pointer Colors and Transparency / Mouse Over text
I use a giant cursor, and have it rendered as yellow outlined by red. Yeah, my vision is bad enough that I really LOVE those features! (size and color of mouse pointer)
However, when I encounter ...
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Keyboard shortcut for Control in Spoken Content
Relative noob in MacOS world but trying to learn some accessibility for my daughter who is about to switch from Windows to MacOS.
I can turn on the Spoken Content for reading out the selected text, ...
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Disable screen reading on iOS
My father accidentally enabled this feature on his iPhone and now we don't know where to turn this off.
This button will show a screen reading feature I think for the blind or visual impaired people.
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Alter text size on Home App
Apple's Home app is difficult to use for me.
In all platforma macOS Venturea, IPadOS and IphoneOS it looks quite good except that I cannot read the information - like the temperatures as the text is ...
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Is there a setting or app to make iPhone vibrate when a name or word is said?
My mother's new husband is great but very hard of hearing. This would be really useful for him and everybody else if we could get his iPhone to vibrate when people are trying to get his attention or ...
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How can I go to the Accessibility permissions section in System Settings (macOS Ventura) using AppleScript?
I basically know nothing about AppleScript, but I tried looking this problem up and found nothing that can help me.
How can I do what is described in the title?
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Apple Script, Accessibility Keyboard Panels
I use Accessibility Keyboard Panels. I want a applescript a Button to switch "Panel A" with "Panel B".
I now that I can do it direct command from the Panel Editor.
But the script ...
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How to toggle Accessibility features with AppleScript in Ventura
Applescripts for Ventura's new System Settings
My old Applescript stopped working on Ventura. Any ideas on how to fix this script?
tell application "System Preferences"
reveal anchor ...
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Prevent the need for double system gestures when preferredScreenEdgesDeferringSystemGestures is enabled?
Some apps use preferredScreenEdgesDeferringSystemGestures at times where it doesn't make sense. This makes it inconvenient to invoke system wide gestures like using the home indicator to switch apps, ...
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lock screen wallpaper always bright white when (smart or classic) invert, whether using dark or light jpg
I'm using m1 ipad pro 11 inch on ipadOS 16. I noticed that when I use either "classic invert" or "smart invert" in Accessibility settings, the lockscreen wallpaper is always bright....
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Switch workspace animation lag (with screen recording)
Both my Macbook and Mac are suffering from a disturbing lag, right after workspace animation finishes the window gets its focus a split second late. During the time, the OS ignores any input, so one ...
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Ventura: AppleScript to Automatically Change Wi-Fi Networks
This is a follow-up to a post made about 2 years ago to use Apple Script to switch between Wi-Fi networks via the menu bar:
Big Sur 11.1: AppleScript to Automatically Change Wi-Fi Networks
My ...
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How to re-order the "Look Up" button when holding to select text?
I am a big-time user of the Look Up functionality of the iPhone, added in iOS 11.
However, I don't like that I have to jump through hoops to get to the "Look Up" button when I hold to select ...
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Why does the trackpad not work when set to ignored only if a mouse is connected when the mouse is not connected?
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This is a question I asked before upgrading to Macbook Pro with MacOS Monterey. This now works as expected:
If my bluetooth mouse is connected, the trackpad is off.
If my bluetooth mouse is ...
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Increase text cursor/insertion point size in Pages
The thin line of the text insertion cursor is nearly impossible to see on a page of text. In order to find it, I have to "enter" and then hope I correctly maintained my count to move it from ...
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"Announce the time" not working in macOS monterey 12.5.1
"Announce the time" not working in macOS monterey 12.5.1 - I have ADHD and relied on this feature alot to stop me "losing time". I can see the settings and options and they are ...
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How to resize or reset Accessibility Keyboard's minimised mode?
The Accessibility Keyboard's minimised mode has become so small, I'm unable to drag any part of it to resize or move it.
Is there a way to reset its settings so I can move and resize it again?
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pre-allocate CPU for the screen magnifier
Lately, my mac seems to be having CPU spikes at certain times. I'm not sure there's a single culprit. Sometimes, Docker has a ridiculously high CPU usage, sometimes it's Chrome. The annoying thing is ...
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Accessibility: Mouse Pointer goes back to default Size during Screen Sharing (or Jump Desktop)
I need to have the mouse pointer larger than normal (I also use different colors). But when I screen share from Mac to Mac (both running Monterey), the cursor is the tiny default size.
If I go into ...
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How to make macOS Siri voice read current pasteboard (clipboard) buffer?
While the System Preferences (Settings) → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Speak selection is useful, I would very much find it more useful to use Siri voices to read the current contents of the ...
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Open context menu at cursor when in a textfield (in Chrome) using the keyboard?
Is there a way to open the context menu (a.k.a. "the right click menu") at the text cursor, using the keyboard when typing in a text field in OSx? If not in general, at least for Google ...
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How to get rid of cursor highlight?
I held down some key for too long while I was thinking and the Mac bleeped at me to intimate that some mode had been triggered, analogous to StickyKeys or FilterKeys on Windows.
Now, whenever I click, ...
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508 Accessibility: English Siri misreads certain roman numerals
For any multiple of 5 and its preceding value, Siri reads the value as a literal character rather than a number. For instance, the numbers 4, 5, 9, 10 are read as the characters I-V, V, I-X, X rather ...
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How to test accessibility content on iOS 15.5 simulator
I noticed that the path (and name) to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver has been changed in iOS 15.5. It's now Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content. It would help if Apple unpdated ...
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Shortcut step to get selected text without copying? How?
How can I make a services shortcut (available via right-click menu) that gets the selected text and reads it aloud? There is a "Speak Text" step, but I can't figure out how to send the ...
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Where to find in depth accessibility API documentation
I want to write an application that leverages the Apple accessibility APIs to embellish texts on the screen.
My goal is to overlay additional information on text that the user is reading/typing.
Apple ...
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Using a MacBook Air outsde ☀️ with "Inverted Screen Colors"
I occasionally sit in the garden, under a parasol, and am in very long and boring Teams meetings.
I did a web search on how to see the screen better and found a tip
Working Outside on Your MacBook ...
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Accessibility options for both external monitors on MacBook Pro M1
I am using a MacBook Pro M1 2019 with a Dell D6000 docking station. I have two monitors plugged in to the docking station and use DisplayLink Manager to "extend" one monitor, i.e. the two ...
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How do I stop an app from requesting to "control this Mac using accessibility features"
I am currently getting requests:
"daemondo" would like to control this computer using accessibility features
The problem being, that I have not heard of this app, and I cannot recall ...
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Turning on "Increase contrast" reduces contrast of tag and window button colors (Big Sur/Monterey)
I recently upgraded a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) I use at work from macOS Catalina 10.15.7 to Monterey 12.3.1.
I have "Increase contrast" enabled (under System Preferences > ...
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Any way to disable Fade In/Out animation when between apps?
I can switch between apps with command + tab. I've already disabled the slide animation in settings:
but there is still a fade animation when I change between apps which wastes half a second or so. ...
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Activity monitor style way to see Neural Engine load?
The question is all in the title. Here is the background.
I am using an M1 mini with 8 GB of RAM, which is barely functional when I have voice control switched on, due to memory usage frequently going ...
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Can't use System Events when using Launch Daemons and Agents
I'm writing a little Go program that uses osascript (based on mac2mqtt):
func getCommandOutput(name string, arg ...string) string {
var outbuf, errbuf strings.Builder // or bytes.Buffer
cmd := ...
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Select Latin American Spanish voice for translate feature?
In several macOS apps, I can select text, and then control-click and select "Translate ..." from the context menu. For example, here are screenshots from TextEdit.
For Spanish, it ...
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How to remove "mysterious" tooltips on iphone?
Suddenly, the following tool tips have appeared above every single item on an iPhone.
They appear above app icons, above each text message, etc
I assume its an accessibility feature but can't, for the ...
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Simulating screen touches with key presses on iPad
I would like to know if it's possible to simulate a screen tap with key presses from a Bluetooth keyboard on an iPad. Kind of like Bluestacks does it. I wouldn't mind it being an app from the App ...
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When I press command key text gets highlighted and enlarged - how do I remove this features (disable Enable Hover Text)?
When I press command the text in my mac becomes large. I've tried googling how to remove it and in system preferences too! How do I remove this?
Also, I can't even take a screen shot because it ...
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Limit web browser on iPad to a single web site (or a few specific sites)?
I know that iPadOS provides the Guided Access feature to limit access to a single app.
Suppose that one single app is a web browser, either Safari or a third-party browser. Is there some way to limit ...
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Where are system speech voices stored in MacOS Monterey?
The default voices in Monterey are stored in /System/Library/SpeechBase/Voices/. I used System Preferences > Accessibility > System Voice > Customize... to install a few more US, UK, and ...
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MacOS >11.0: Is there a way to programmatically give an app Privacy->Accessibility Permissions?
Using only a command line, is it possible to add an app to Security & Privacy/Privacy/Accessibility shown below?
Using Azure Pipelines, I'm attempting to set up a remote machine and it needs a ...
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How do I choose the Agree button in the macOS Monterey licence agreement dialog without using a mouse?
I’m trying to reinstall macOS Monterey.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, they have decided that the mouse won’t work during the reinstall process. The pointer appears on screen but the mouse doesn’...
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