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＞ I'm confident that Apple takes accessibility very seriously I think Apple gets too much of a pass for being serious and commited, where other players have ac
by makeitdouble 3y ago
＞ I'm confident that Apple takes accessibility very seriously
I think Apple gets too much of a pass for being serious and commited, where other players have actual results.
On mild level accessibility, the part that surprised me the most was keyboard mapping. While macos got caps lock/esc/ctl remapping as touted out improvement, there is no blessed way to remap the rest of the keys.
That means third party deamons like Karabiner are the only straight option, and since it stopped being a kernel extension it's also out of the critical loops and will lag under load. In the worst moment I see keystrokes getting processed with enough lag to miss the combined triggers or go to different applications.
Windows has more options out of the box (e.g. 106 key layouts IME languages etc.), Powertoys is blessed and efficient, and AutoHotKey works well even under stress.
I'm still hoping for more improvement on macos land, but I wish there was less talk and more work on Apple's part.
- eertami 3y agoI haven't used OSX in a while, but in the past I created my own keymap using Ukelele. Would this not still be possible?
- eproxus 3y agoI still use Ukulele and a custom Swedish Dvorak keyboard layout without any problems (in fact, the layout I created 10+ years ago still works out of the box, on every release of macOS).
- makeitdouble 3y agoUkele seems to be about character output, and doesn't interfere with the actual physical key behaviors or modifiers (that's what I get from the site and the interface when running it). For instance I need the Left and Right Command keys to each switch on/off the IME when single pressed, and act as Command when combined with other keys. Same way the Fn key doesn't seem to be mappable. Seems to work at the same level as the Powertoys remapper on windows, minus the shortcuts.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agomy understanding of this is that Windows definitely makes it easier to write keylogging software etc. which of course also turns into making it easy to do all sorts of other keyboard things like hotkeys etc. (or perhaps I should say Windows makes it easy to write all sorts of hotkey, keyboard manipulating tools which means writing bad things like keyloggers etc. is also super easy) This (again my limited understanding) is why AutoHotKey has not been successfully ported to Mac, because it is either not technically possible to achieve or time required would make it not worthwhile.