Disabling speech

[wmkman]

I am using Tiger Server and a mix of Tiger and Panther clients. We are in a school setting and I would sooooooo like to use workgroup manager to disable the “speech” tool on the client machines so that the students cannot make the computer say what ever they want. I have been looking but have been unable to find a way to do this other than going to the individual machines and taking away all access to the “speech” folder in library. This is what I had done on a couple machines but this would be too timely to go to all and do this.

thank you in advance.

[Magus255]

Not sure if this will work with your panther clients but it should work for tiger. You want to manage voiceover in WGM. Select whatever you want, group, users, computers.. and go to preferences. Click on details then click the add button. Browse to your Library/Preferences and pick the com.apple.universalaccess.plist file (if its not there you may have to change your settings in system prefs to make the file). Then double click the file or click it and hit edit. It should have Once, Often, and Always. Remove everything from that is currently in there since they are your settings and not what you want to push out but leave the Once Often and Always catagories. Then click on Always and click New Key, if it’s grayed out click the arrow by Always. Name the key voiceOverOnOffKey in the class list find Boolean and then set the value to Yes or No for on or off.

[wmkman]

Thank you. I will give this a try on Monday when I get back to school.

I appreciate it.

[wmkman]

Thank you Magus255

This worked wonderfully even on for the Panther clients. The students are unhappy but I guess I can just say that they did it to themselves.

Thanks again

[wmkman]

Thank you for the tip. Since I am still fairly new with Macs, I will keep that in mind.

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