Accessibility

Last updated: August 7, 2026

Hold to Talk is a native macOS menu bar dictation app. It is designed around a keyboard-first workflow: hold the configured shortcut, speak, release, and review the pasted transcript in the app you were already using.

Mac Permissions

Hold to Talk asks for Microphone access to capture speech and limited Core Graphics PostEvent paste authorization. macOS displays that paste authorization in Privacy & Security under Accessibility. The App Store build uses it only to post Command-V after a dictation; it does not use Input Monitoring, inspect other apps' interface elements, read unrelated documents, or send text automatically.

Keyboard Workflow

• The core recording action defaults to press-and-hold Option-Space and can be changed to another shortcut.
• The Settings window exposes shortcut, billing, vocabulary, paste behavior, history, and privacy controls.
• The app pastes editable draft text and leaves the final send or run action to the user.

Accessibility Nutrition Labels

For the Mac App Store Accessibility Nutrition Label, Hold to Talk is currently prepared to declare Dark Interface support for Mac.

VoiceOver and Voice Control are not claimed yet. Those labels require a full common-task audit using Apple's criteria across install, permissions, recording, settings, billing, and restore flows. We will only claim those labels after that testing is complete.

Current Support Notes

• Dark Interface: Supported in the Mac app.
• VoiceOver: Not claimed until the full common-task workflow is tested.
• Voice Control: Not claimed until the full common-task workflow is tested.
• Captions and Audio Descriptions: Not applicable to the core app workflow because Hold to Talk is not a video or media playback app.

Contact

If you need accessibility help or want to report an accessibility issue, contact hello@holdtotalk.com.