Re: "assistive access" element gets forgotten on Yosemite?
Re: "assistive access" element gets forgotten on Yosemite?
- Subject: Re: "assistive access" element gets forgotten on Yosemite?
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:25:53 -0700
> On Nov 19, 2014, at 11:02:AM, Charles Arthur <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Previously on the list I enquired about a script I had which would copy and then paste some text into a window in Google Chrome. I discovered that I needed to give Script Editor and System Events and SystemUIServer assistive access in the “Privacy” window of “Security and Privacy” in System Preferences.
>
> Yet having enabled it - and looking at it right now it’s still there - I run the script and get errors, specifically
> ""System Events got an error: Script Editor is not allowed assistive access." number -1719 from menu bar 1 of process "Google Chrome””
>
> And yet it *does* have assistive access. It’s right there.
>
> I’ve tried unticking and reticking the tickbox in the listing. That doesn’t solve it. Sometimes restarting Chrome does (hasn’t in this case).
> Has anyone else seen this, and/or got solutions for it? It’s a script I use multiple times daily, so its failure is more than an annoyance.
It’s been my experience that unpicking and reticking all the offenders was all that it took. Sometimes the app in question has a weird name.
> best
> Charles
>
Robert Poland
Fort Collins CO
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