Hi all,
I updated my Mac to MacOs 12.3 hoping that universal keyboard access will now be available. No joy, though. The feature is still graded out.
System preferences/accessibility/keyboard/enable full keyboard access DMD checkbox.
Is it working at your end? any suggestions?
Already contacted apple support and am yet to hear from them.
Thank you and have a smashing day!
By VivekP, 16 March, 2022
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Apple accessibility response
I've asked Apple accessibility about that in February, here is the information I got from the emails exchanged:
"It is expected behavior for Full Keyboard Access to be dimmed while VoiceOver is enabled. Since both features accomplish a very similar tasks in allowing navigation with the keyboard, it is not feasible to have them both enabled at the same time. There aren’t any tasks that can be performed with Full Keyboard Access that cannot be performed with VoiceOver on its own."
"The Full Keyboard Access feature that appears in the Accessibility System Preferences was introduced in Monterey, and adds additional navigation functions to the keyboard, including grouped navigation. Since VoiceOver also navigates with groups, these features cannot be used in combination to avoid confusion.
However, the previous version of keyboard navigation is still available under System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Use Keyboard Navigation to move focus between controls. In our testing, we were able to use the classic version of keyboard navigation along with VoiceOver in order to navigate app controls with Tab and Shift Tab."
I hope it helps :)
Thank you, it makes sense
Hi, thank you for this information, it does make sense. I would have liked apple to put a note explaining this alongside the checkbox, that'd have made it easy for all of us.
Never mind, though.
Thank you again and have a smashing day ahead!