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Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by int0x29 »

patates wrote: post #167
int0x29 wrote: post #153

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> However, I would like to point out that Apple isn't totally wrong here because the accessibility API unfortunately is way too broadly scoped, and because of that you literally get access to everything on the computer like you you can screenshot listen and and move the cursor... This is completely ridiculous and the proper engineering solution would actually be to phase out the accessibility API and replace it with…

> Chrome and anything electron based don't provide any accessibility information to the OS Are we sure about this? At least on windows, NVDA works fine with chrome and any electron apps.

Looks like they fixed this one since I last checked in 2016

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by functionmouse »

Hugsbox wrote: post #93
stonogo wrote: post #69

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Nobody in my life even notices when they change their 'primary operating system.' They buy a phone based on what looks cool at the time, sometimes it's android, sometimes it's iphone. They move freely between chromebooks, windows, and mac os, because everything is online anyway. It's only 'experts' who have trouble with this.

I'm the IT guy to most of the elderly people in my life, and steadily switching them over to Linux Mint over the years. Fact of the matter is, most of them use their OS as a gateway to their web browser, and don't care to do anything else with it. For many non-technical users, switching OSes is literally a non-thing. The only difference vs Windows is that they call me for assistance way less frequently.

Are you upgrading their release for them every year or so once it becomes unsupported?

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by LorenPechtel »

analog8374 wrote: post #82
squigz wrote: post #76

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It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

I'm sort of in the middle on this.

Some pages have somebody guarding the party line, anything that goes against that gets reverted. (How can putting an accurate link behind a piece of text be wrong??)

Pages without such guardians I've never had an issue.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by vorticalbox »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #157
Barbing wrote: post #154

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Yes but miffing to open Privacy & Security & see dozens of apps pretending to need “accessibility” features. Apple has a dozen+ categories there but many poweruser apps I want specifically need accessibility. Is there an opinionated reason not to break out capabilities?

Apple doesn’t provide another API for this, so apps have to use the one that’s available.

i think the issue is that you can still have these all under the accessibility api but why not break that down more

accessibility.screenshot accessibility.paste

and whatever else there is. that completely removes the issues for apps like this.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by dd8601fn »

jchw wrote: post #103
squigz wrote: post #92

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Everything I've ever added was kept.

Not absolutely everything I've ever contributed was kept, but definitely a lot of it. I genuinely get the feeling that the modern Wikipedia hatred comes from somewhere other than a few unfortunate edit wars, but I'm not in-tune enough to know.

I’ve seen the nit-pick reversions and I’ve seen clear ones.

But when I hear people really complain somewhere I do tend to assume they were trying to smuggle in some specific messaging and got caught.

Re: Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

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Post by RZelaya »

claviska wrote: post #164

They rejected mine too for the exact same reason, despite press-to-talk being a legitimate accessibility issue. I wrote about this here [1], and even called out some of the most common disabilities that clearly benefit from it. They also don’t allow microphone access from keyboard extensions in iOS, which prevented me from shipping an iPhone target (that I really wanted for myself tbh). It’s a shame and I can only as…

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