macOS Alternate Control Methods

A neighbor who works by us had been having this weird issue where the number-pad on his iMac stopped working causing weeks of frustration trying to get work done. He asked if I knew anything about Macs so I offered to help out and eventually discovered it was due to an accessibility setting called "Mouse Keys" that configures the number-pad keys to control the pointer. I didn't know about this and, of course, they had no idea what had caused it to become enabled so it seems weird that this setting would turn on by itself, but alas, here we were.

Published: 2023-10-08

Tagged: macos settings numpad accessibility keyboard