Contacts App Preferences GUI

[BrianBaughn]

What is the purpose of the blue outline around the "General" tab here?

 

[RabidMacFan]

What is the purpose of the blue outline around the "General" tab here?

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I'm not on Monterey yet, but it looks like you have an accessibility feature enabled that would let you arrow or tab to your choice of tab. vCard is currently selected. Pressing space will select general.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I can't seem to find a setting for this.

 

[m_emelchenkov]

I don't have any outlines on my setup.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I don't have any outlines on my setup.

I still don't know what setting causes it.

 

[chabig]

I still don't know what setting causes it.

Go to System Preferences > Accessibility and turn everything off.

 

[BigBlur]

VoiceOver can put boxes around controls as seen in your screenshot. Check to see if that is enabled, and disable it if you don't need it.

'Enable Full Keyboard Access' in Accessibility settings also puts boxes around controls, but that one looks slightly different and you would have noticed boxes everywhere, so I don't think it's that one we're seeing here.

I'm not sure if anything else puts boxes around UI controls; so if it isn't VoiceOver, disable everything as chabig mentioned.

Also, make sure you close that window and re-open it after disabling things.

 

[allan.nyholm]

Instead look in the Keyboard Settings - Reopen Contacts and its preferences after the fact

 

[BrianBaughn]

Instead look in the Keyboard Settings - Reopen Contacts and its preferences after the fact

That's the one! Thanks.