Accessibility Permissions
Required for Wordwand to read and replace text in any Mac app.
Why this permission is needed
The macOS Accessibility API is the system-level mechanism that allows one application to interact with the text fields of another. It is how assistive technologies such as screen readers work, and it is the same mechanism Wordwand uses to read your selected text and insert the AI-processed result back in place.
Without Accessibility access, Wordwand cannot read what you have selected, and it cannot replace that text with the result. The permission is a hard requirement — macOS enforces it. No Accessibility permission means no text read or write.
How to grant access — step by step
This takes less than a minute on any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later.
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Open System Settings from the Apple menu in the top-left corner of your screen.
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Navigate to Privacy & Security, then click Accessibility in the list.
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Click the + button to add an app, or scroll to find Wordwand in the list.
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Toggle Wordwand to ON. macOS may ask for your password or Touch ID to confirm.
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If prompted, quit and relaunch Wordwand so the new permission takes effect.
If Wordwand still does not work
macOS sometimes caches permission states. If Wordwand is not responding even after granting Accessibility access, try the following:
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Remove Wordwand from the Accessibility list by selecting it and clicking the − button, then re-add it using the + button.
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Restart your Mac and try again.
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Make sure you are running the latest version of Wordwand.
Is this permission safe?
Yes. Accessibility access does not mean screen recording, keylogging, or unrestricted access to your computer. The macOS Accessibility API allows Wordwand to read the currently selected text and write text back into the focused field — nothing more.
Wordwand sends the selected text to its API for processing and returns the result. No text is stored locally beyond the duration of the session, and nothing is recorded in the background. Accessibility is used only when you explicitly trigger Wordwand with your keyboard shortcut.