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What has Accessibility got to do with me?

What is the Accessibility list for in the Privacy tab of Security & Privacy? If you don’t use any Accessibility features, does it do anything?

March 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Dictation changes in Catalina – for the worse?

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Mojave’s effective Enhanced Dictation is gone in Catalina, replaced by Voice Control. In some ways that’s better, but not for dictation.

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

PDF without Adobe 24: Accessibility with PDF/UA

A great idea: tag blocks of text in a PDF and build them into reading order, so that they can be read out loud. How well does that work, then?

June 26, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Homage to Catalina

Was WWDC a damp squib after all? With only one new unaffordable Mac announced, and more dreadful privacy dialogs on their way, you might think so.

June 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Accessibility, privacy, and fun with Automator

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What the Accessibility list in Privacy controls is about, and how it almost made it easier to add an app to Full Disk Access.

September 15, 2018 Macs, Technology

My Pointer/Cursor Keeps Disappearing: what can I do?

This is a common problem. You’re in the middle of something, and the pointer (or cursor) goes into […]

May 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

How the new Touch Bar can open access for those with visual impairment

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What good is a fiddly miniature display strip when you can’t see it properly? With the right controls, it can be a great improvement.

November 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Should you drop Dropbox?

What do you make of an app which “takes control of your Mac” without asking you, and then refuses to let you disable that?

September 12, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Unintended consequences of SIP

El Capitan’s no-go areas make many important extensions unusable now. Apple must step in and enhance OS X to compensate.

February 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

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