tccutil OS X Accessibility Command Line Tool Available On Homebrew I’m happy to announce that tccutil.py is now available on Homebrew. A tool for modifying access to assistive devices from the command line. You can install it like this: brew install tccutilThe real tccutil (designed by Apple’s engineers), found in /usr/bin, only has one feature: to
tccutil OS X: Scripting "Needs Access To Assistive Devices" Accessibility “Some app needs 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
tccutil 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
tccutil 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 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.
tccutil 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) 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 assistive devices was relatively
