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OS X Accessibility Command Line Tool Available On Homebrew

OS X Accessibility Command Line Tool Available On Homebrew

I’m happy to announce that tccutil.py [https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil#tccutilpy] is now available [https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/4b27e526afdbb28b0de0a9623c787b6346179c71/Library/Formula/tccutil.rb] on Homebrew [http://brew.sh/]. A tool for modifying access to assistive devices from the command line. You can install it like

OS X: Scripting "Needs Access To Assistive Devices" Accessibility

OS X: Scripting "Needs Access To Assistive Devices" Accessibility

“Some appneeds access to assistive devices.” This message appears on a lot of software starting in Mavericks and Yosemite and is slow to fix without scripting it. If you are a systems administrator and have thousands of computers to deploy this app to, do you really want to manually walk

OS X Yosemite: Enable Access for Assistive Devices Command Line

There are apps that require access to assistive devices in Yosemite. A perfect example of this is TextExpander 4. It needs the ability to type text on the user’s behalf. The easiest way to enable access for these items is to drag-and-drop them into the Accessibility section under the

OS X Yosemite and osascript: Enabling Access to Assistive Devices

OS X Yosemite and osascript: Enabling Access to Assistive Devices

I love automating things, so I also wrote a command line utility that you can use to add items into the accessibility database (located at /Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/tcc.db ). https://github.com/jacobsalmela/tccutil/releases An example of how to use this, would be to allow

tccutil.py: Command Line Utility for Modifying the Accessibility Database in OS X

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tccutil.py: Command Line Utility for Modifying the Accessibility Database in OS X

I love working in the command line, but one part of OS X that thus far has been difficult to script is modifying the accessibility database in OS X 10.9. There are many examples out there of people needing to do something like this: * https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.

Bash Script: Enable Access to Assistive Devices Programmatically in OS X Mavericks 10.9.x - Simulate Keystrokes

Bash Script: Enable Access to Assistive Devices Programmatically in OS X Mavericks 10.9.x - Simulate Keystrokes

Using a bash script to enable access to assistive devices is possible in Mavericks (and also Yosemite [https://jacobsalmela.com/os-x-yosemite-osascript-enabling-access-assistive-devices/]) despite the move to a per-app database. This is useful for entering keystrokes or clicking GUI buttons via a bash script. Prior to OS X Mavericks, enabling access to