VoiceOver a security risk? That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard. Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 2, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Bryan Jones <openses...@me.com> wrote: > > Hello Lynne, > > In February 2011 I contacted Objective Development, the Developers of Little > Snitch, to ask about VO compatibility. I’ve pasted their response below. I > have not tried Little Snitch in a couple of years; thus, I cannot say whether > these same instructions will work for the current version of Little Snitch > running under the latest versions of MacOS. > > HTH, > Bryan > > Begin response from Objective Development Customer Support: > > "Little Snitch can be used with VoiceOver. > > Unfortunately VoiceOver can present a security risk, because it makes one > app controllable by another app. That is why controlling Little Snitch via > VoiceOver is disabled by default. > > You would need to ask a seeing person to enable the preferences setting > "Allow GUI Scripting access to Little Snitch" in the "Security" tab of the > preferences in the Little Snitch Configuration application. > > You might then want to disable this option: In the preferences tab > "Monitor", the setting "Show automatically on network activity" - > otherwise the Network Monitor will be much too chatty :) " > > End response from Objective Development. > >> On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:39 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith >> <ly...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> If anybody knows of a way to configure this with VoiceOver, please share the >> info. I’d love to be wrong on this occasion. But our testing has shown no >> accessibility whatsoever with the exception of the installer and uninstaller >> utilities. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
