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User profile for user: Tigerladybarb
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How to fix Accessibility settings issue leading to Browser Crashes on Sonoma?

Lately, I have been having many issues, such as several of my browsers crashing when trying to visit sites I have visited for a long time. Sites like Amazon, Best Buy, PNC Bank, and many others. It isn't just one browser that has this problem. I have the same issues on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Duck Duck Go, and Edge. Some sites will crash in one browser but not another. From the crash logs, the issue mostly deals with the Dispatch queue: create-voices-avspeech


I have been trying to find this issue on the web to no avail. I have found that it might have something to do with Accessibility in settings specifically related to Spoken Content. I get this error: Extension process Accessibility(32872) exited, and Live Speech, I get this error: Extension process Accessibility(32996) exited.


I have tried finding more information, but these IDs change every time I visit them.


I'm in desperate need of a solution to this problem. If anyone has any insights or potential fixes, I would greatly appreciate your assistance.


I am running on macOS Sonoma V 14.5


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iMac 27″, macOS 14.5

Posted on May 22, 2024 10:13 AM

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User profile for user: carfax
carfax
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Posted on May 24, 2024 9:42 AM

Slightly easier fix:


I had essentially the same problem. Web pages making every browser crash.

System settings crashing on Accessibility-> Spoken Content and Live Speech

I went into preferences and found that the only recently changed pref was:


com.apple.SpeakSelection.plist


So I deleted that and System Settings Accessibility-> Spoken Content and Live Speech immediately began to work again and web pages began to display without crashing.

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User profile for user: FrankVO
FrankVO
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Jun 8, 2024 1:06 PM in response to carfax

Thanks! I should have found this post two days ago :-)

Also went down the path to reinstall Sonoma 14.5 - which somehow messed up the FusionDrive and left me without startup disk/recovery image.

But on the positive side: I learned to create a bootable MacOS image on USB, fix a broken FusionDrive and reinstall MacOS Sonoma + Time Machine recovery.

What remains is the answer to the question: How did we end up in this situation? Speech settings in System settings/Accessibility worked fine after a fresh Sonoma install so something must have happened afterwards.

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User profile for user: tbarcturus
tbarcturus
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Jul 2, 2024 12:04 PM in response to harddrivin1le

For you (and others) facing this issue on older versions of macOS, I wish I had a straight answer but I imagine this prefs file has a different name on older versions of the OS. Given that System Preferences became System Settings at Ventura, its likely your file is in a different location or with a different name but serves the same purpose.


I wish I had an older Mac to test this theory on. Apologies!

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