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I added my versions to the original post. I went into accessiblity settings and turned off the ability for an auto clicker to control my computer and I can no

I added my versions to the original post. I went into accessiblity settings and turned off the ability for an auto clicker to control my computer and I can no longer re-produce the message editing. However, when I turned that setting back on I it didn't re-enable the behaviour, so I don't believe it was that app itself. Perhaps something to do with macOS accessibility in general?

necovek 3y ago
Yeah, sounds like a combination of things: a11y allows introspection of the widgets, and perhaps received messages are rendered by an editable widget that's "emulated" to be read-only (ie most events caught to make it non-editable, but a11y goes direct to the properties). Since you can't reproduce it, sounds like an inconsistency in startup too. Perhaps worth trying to kill the Messages app and restart it with a11y reenabled? You should probably report the bug anyway, it might be an easy and obvious fix for someone with access to the source code, yet hard to figure out a reproducible test case for an outsider.