accessibility

I am Nipun Malhotra. I was born with a quadriplegic disability. I am a Disability Rights Activist and social entrepreneur based in India. I'm a Big Apple fan and use an iPhone 14, Apple Watch 9, AirPods and an Apple TV. I used a MacBook until 2020, but I had to switch to a Surface Pro 7 that...

This is what I'm referring to: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/mac I can still zoom in with ctrl + scroll like before. However, when the screen is zoomed in, I cannot drag the cursor to the edge of any of its borders to force the screen to move in that direction like...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to adjust the intensity of color filters on my Mac more precisely than what's offered in System Preferences (Accessibility->Display->Color Filters near the bottom), preferably using the Terminal or Shortcuts app. I aim to automate or quickly change settings for...

What does this red "I" with a slash through it mean? More advanced voice controls don't seem to be available, e.g. "delete previous three words" when this icon shows up. However, I can't find reference to that icon anywhere to confirm that voice control is saying that it's not compatible. Can...

Has anyone else experienced this ... ? [I'm on 12.6.3] I restart my system and after login the screen explodes with a fireworks display of login items filling the screen and fighting each other for my finite human attention, all asking for privacy permissions, which might be...

This is going to be pretty niche, but if you want to try it, you'll need some ear buds and open Accessibility. When you try to use the balance slider, it works and you can pan left and right. I went in there to move it slightly because I believe my beats fit pro are louder in the left. It...

Longtime Mac user, never had any problems til the iPhone 13 came out. The screen looked so sharp, and yet it was like I couldn't get my eyeballs to "land" on it. Always felt like I was looking a little through it, and it gave me near-immediate eye-burning forehead headaches. I went with the SE...

I have a refurbished 16inch 2019 macbook pro, which i'm trying my best to transition to from Windows. I messed with the trackpad settings to mimic what i'm used to - the biggest thing for me was to enable dragging, but I do not want the drag lock. I have the "without drag lock" checked but it...

Is it possible to navigate within system menu bar items (Sound, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc) with the keyboard, say with the tab key? For example, I've built an Alfred Workflow that lets me open the 'Sound' menu bar item by typing 'snd', and this works. However, I can't hit 'tab' to start navigating...

Currently Apple locks the Siri voice only to the operating system functions. It is a reasonable decision as some app could impersonate Siri and try to steal the sensitive personal data. However, it is not reasonable that the user cannot unlock Siri voice for other apps if he checks some...

I'm considering buying an iPad for my mother. Her sight is getting worse with age. Apple devices seem to have better accessibility features than Android, and larger screen surely would help too. But I'm not sure whether iPad Mini will offer the best experience for her. Right now she's using...

I've been having a bizarre issue with macOS Catalina beta 4 (which started in beta 2, I believe). 1) I connect an external keyboard (latest gen wireless Magic Keyboard) to my MacBook Pro 2017 2) Within a minute or so, the OS automatically turns on Sticky Keys on the external keyboard (the...

I keep seeing here (almost daily now) people getting very excited about mouse support on the iPad. I can't figure out WHY people are excited. Can someone please help me understand? It's my understanding that this is an "accessibility" feature and not something that apps will truly support. Being...

Is there a way to use the accessibility function (scroll gesture with modifier keys to make a full screen zoom) along with Wacom tablet candor Wacom mouse scroll? I am using Wacom Intros 5 Touch with Max OS X El Capitan with driver (6.3.34-2)... I tried it and it doens't work, it only works...

Hello Everyone! I am a long time lurker of MacRumors and have finally decided to create an account for myself. I look forward to being a part of the MacRumors community! I wrote an email to Craig Federighi last Wednesday and have yet to hear back. I know I shouldn't expect a response, but...

Hey everyone, Im trying to find a new laptop for college. Im visually impaired so I love big screen sizes but Apples pricing is completely outrageous for its 2017 15" MacBook Pro models: $3000CAD+ I get that they're trying to market the 15" as a step above any of the 13 inch models but crap...

Hi My 5s is pretty old and the battery is draining down veeeery fast, so I only use positioning while using Waze. But it's really dull to turn it on and off all the time. I didn't find in preset features of assistive touch option for the positioning. Is there a way to add the function as a...

After upgrading from OSX 10.11 (last version) to macOS Sierra 10.12, the following feature stopped working: Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom At first, on macOS 10.12, it wasn't working no matter what I do. And after upgrading to macOS 10.12.1, it is still...

Since updating (I'm at 10.0.2), I can no longer successfully drag two fingers down from the top of the screen to have the contents of the screen read aloud. The controls appear briefly then vanish in a bug-like way. My Settings are correct — the feature is enabled. Is anyone else noticing this...

It seems that in El Capitan, Apple has linked together the options "Increase contrast" and "Reduce transparency" in the "Display" pane of the "Accessibility" prefs pane. While you can enable "Reduce transparency" by itself, you cannot enable "Increase contrast" by itself. As some of you may...