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Re: Switching on Access for Assistive Devices from an installer
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Re: Switching on Access for Assistive Devices from an installer


  • Subject: Re: Switching on Access for Assistive Devices from an installer
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:37:33 -0400

Apple has deliberately set things up so that you have to turn assistive
device support on manually, for security reasons. Software that uses the
Accessibility API -- such as QuicKeys, my PreFab UI Browser, and GUI
Scripting -- detect whether it is off on launch and open the Universal
Access preference pane for you so that you can easily turn it on. Once on,
it stays on across reboots until you manually turn it off. I leave it on all
the time.

on 03-10-04 8:02 AM, Adam at email@hidden wrote:

> I recently discovered the GUI scripting module which is great news - I
> wanted to enable the Universal Access pref pane - access for assistive
> devices using a shell script from an installer package.
>
> I thought this would be simple, just find the plist for universalaccess
> (com.apple.universalaccess.plist) and add a pair for the assistive
> devices
>
> but, strangely enough, there is no key pair for assistive devices!
> Other switches in the pref pane set up key pairs, such as speech and
> shortcut keys..
>
> I've scoured around system level plists and I just can't find out where
> assistive devices on or off is set!
>
>
> any ideas?


--

Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
http://www.quecheesoftware.com

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