Cursor shake - Significant accessibility degredation

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Created Aug ’15

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Hi,

I suffer from a condition known in the medical literature as Essential Tremor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_tremor ). Up until now, I could use a mac without going crazy in the process, really.

and then came 'Cursor shake'.

This thing is nothing short of **** for me. Whoever invented this feature, could not imagine people who have a natural amount of tremor. this causes the mouse to grow out and try to steal my attention pretty much randomly, driving me crazy in the process.

Please. I beg of you, please allow me to disable this HORRENDOUS, HORRIBLE feature. you spend so much time allowing for accessibility features, only to foist INACCESSIBILITY features upon users already suffering from a troubling medical condition.

GB

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Answer 1

Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’15

The Apple Developer forums are a great place to post questions and share comments on a variety of development topics with other developers around the world. While Apple Engineers are present in the Apple Developer forums their role is to provide answers to questions on App and hardware development. The accessibility issue you’ve written about is very important to us and we want to make sure it’s routed to the appropriate group. We would ask that you submit this through Bug Reporter to ensure the appropriate Apple team can review the request in detail. You may submit this directly using the following link:

http://bugreport.apple.com

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Answer 2

Max108 OP

Aug ’15

Hi GB,

Copy-paste the following command into a Terninal window to disable the feature:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences CGDisableCursorLocationMagnification -bool YES

then restart your Mac.

Max.

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Answer 3

Max108 OP

Aug ’15

... and if you don't like Terminal commands, it looks like your wish has been granted - the next beta will have an option to disable it under System Preferences > Accessibility > Display

Max.

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Answer 4

dialabrain OP

Aug ’15

Max, how do you know this? 🙂

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Answer 5

Max108 OP

Aug ’15

Apple unprecedentedly (in that it was before releasing for devs) released a new beta to the Public Beta catalog today (build 15A262c), where it remained for about an hour or so before it was pulled. Long enough for a few keen updaters to complete the download though. One of them posted a picture of the new preference pane.

My guess is that the build was meant to be added to the 10.11seed catalog rather than the 10.11beta one and the mistake was realised...

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Answer 6

dialabrain OP

Aug ’15

makes sense. hopefully that means the next dev seed is forthcoming.

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Answer 7

Max108 OP

Aug ’15

Yes, I'd be surprised if is isn't tomorrow. I've been wondering aloud for the last week or so if it will be a combo update, and given that the update was 2.45GB in size (again, someone screen-captured it), I'm hopeful...

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