Enable Access For Assistive Devices Mac 10.6

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My previous solution to auto answering FaceTime calls involved AppleScript, which required 'Access to assistive devices' to be enabled. I thought this method, while it worked, was too cumbersome, so I began to dig into FaceTime to find a way around the whole AppleScript approach. I fired up the Terminal to start hacking away at FaceTime. I ran the command: strings /Applications/FaceTime.app/Contents/MacOS/FaceTime and, to my surprise I found two little preference strings of text called AutoAcceptInvites and AutoAcceptInvitesFrom. It turns out that Apple has included the ability to auto answer FaceTime calls, and not only that, but AutoAnswer calls only from callers you specify. I wish I would have checked for these strings a month ago.

Open up the Terminal.app located in your /Applications/Utilities folder. Type in the following command to allow a specified caller for auto accept incoming calls (substituting the appropriate value for indentifier).

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MAC OSX: Push to talk problems while in game For global hotkeys, you need to enable a setting in the Mac system preferences. - Open System Preferences - Universal Access - 'Enable access for assistive devices' (on bottom) This is for Mac OS X 10.5.8, I don't know if it's still named the same on 10.6.

Like several others, I have Universal Access > 'Enable access for assistive devices' turned on, with 'Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs' turned off. Twice since upgrading to 10.6, I've experienced this screen flash about once a minute. The first time I couldn't find what was causing it. Restart cleared the problem.

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The reason for this is, on Mac by default you cannot catch keypresses from one application if another application has the focus for security reasons as a protection mechanism against malware trying to log keyboard input. In order to catch TeamSpeak 3 hotkeys when another application is running, this option must be explicitly enabled, otherwise OS X would not pass the keypresses to TS3.

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