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How To Enable / Disable Read&Write For Mac Prompts

You can bypass security requests with a plist config file which will stop the Read&Write from popping up the Accessibility and Automation setting dialogs needed for Read&Write. These prompts can be bypassed by network admins by pushing out a plist file called RWSettings.plist to the /Users/Shared/Read&Write folder.  The online part of Check It can also be disabled site wide using this file. The plist file details are shown below.

Bypassing the security popups will disable certain features, if you want users to be able to use all features of Read&Write, you should push out a mobileconfig file via MDM instead to set these security options for your users (which will also stop these prompts from appearing). We have this documented in our Pre-Configuring Mac For Read&Write Use In A Site Environment article.

Accessibility Prompt

To bypass the Security Accessibility Popup - bypassing this will disable the prediction feature and mean that the check it feature will work by selection only.

Use the key "AccessibilityPrompt" with value "NO"

Automation Prompt

To bypass the Automation Popup - bypassing this will stop Read&Write communicating with other applications.

Use the key "AutomationPrompt" with value "NO"

Offline Check it

To bypass the Online Checkit feature and use offline only

Use the key "CheckitOffline" with value "YES"

Enable / Disable Features

See our Turning Features Off In Read&Write For The Mac article for details on how to enable or disable certain toolbar features.

Command line example

 To create the plist file use the Terminal application and the following commands (edit as needed):

defaults write /Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist AccessibilityPrompt -bool NO
defaults write /Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist AutomationPrompt -bool NO
defaults write /Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist CheckitOffline -bool YES
defaults write /Users/Shared/Read\&Write/RWSettings.plist FeaturesEnabled -dict \
"Check It" -bool NO \
"Prediction" -bool NO \
"Dictionary" -bool NO \
"Picture Dictionary" -bool NO \
"Verb Checker" -bool NO \
"Play" -bool NO \
"Pause" -bool NO \
"Stop" -bool NO \
"Screenshot Reader" -bool NO \
"Audio Maker" -bool NO \
"Scan" -bool NO \
"Research Folder" -bool NO \
"Translator" -bool NO \
"Screen Masking" -bool NO \
"PDF Reader" -bool NO \
"Highlight Yellow" -bool NO \
"Highlight Green" -bool NO \
"Erase Highlights" -bool NO \
"Collect Highlights" -bool NO \
"Vocabulary List" -bool NO \
"Highlight Blue" -bool NO \
"Highlight Pink" -bool NO \
"Daisy Reader" -bool NO \
"Web Search" -bool NO \
"Calculator" -bool NO \
"Forward" -bool NO \
"Rewind" -bool NO \
"Spell Check" -bool NO \
"Similar Word Checker" -bool NO \
"Voice Note" -bool NO \
"Talk&Type" -bool NO \
"Dictation" -bool NO \
"Hover Speech" -bool NO \
"Settings" -bool NO
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