BetterTouchTool can unlock powerful gesture controls in macOS, but it needs accessibility access as well.
Bartender, for example, can re-arrange and remove your Mac menu bar items, but it needs accessibility access to do that. Other applications depend on Accessibility access to fulfill their basic premise.
RELATED: How to Rearrange and Remove Your Mac's Menu Bar Icons Dropbox likes to overlay a badge over Microsoft Office applications it needs accessibility access to do that. Steam, for example, likes to offer an overlay on top of games it needs accessibility access to do that. It prevents sketchy things from happening, like games you’ve downloaded logging your keystrokes or malware clicking buttons in your browser.īut some applications need to control other applications to offer particular features. By default, Mac apps are self-contained, and can’t change the way you interact with the system or other applications.
