Programmatically determine if “enable access for assistive devices” is checked in Cocoa app

Question

Cocoa apps using the NSAccessibility API require \"enable access for assistive devices\" to be checked in the Universal Access pref pane. I\'ve seen many apps pop a warning if t

Answer 1

In OS X 10.9 Mavericks, AXAPIEnabled() has been deprecated.

AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions can be used instead:

NSDictionary *options = @{(id)kAXTrustedCheckOptionPrompt: @YES};
BOOL accessibilityEnabled = AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions((CFDictionaryRef)options);

If you pass in YES for kAXTrustedCheckOptionPrompt, the system will show the user a helpful little dialog with a link to System Preferences:

"YourApp.app would like to control this computer using accessibility features."