Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a weekly feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!

This week’s tip is exclusive to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. When browsing a web site, or any HTML content, you may sometimes want to hear the destination URL of a given link. With VoiceOver it’s easy. Navigate to the link and press VO-Shift-U. VoiceOver will read the URL where that link leads. This is particularly useful on pages where image links provide little or no useful information. (VO = Control-Option.)

Until next time!

Today, Apple released a security update for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. Security Update 2007-009 plays host to a wide variety of fixes and patches for many of the OS’s key components. To download and install the update, use "Software Update" from the Apple menu of your Mac.

Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a weekly feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!

From time to time, VoiceOver users may encounter the dreaded "Unknown". However, just as in the real world, you need not always fear the Unknown. Instead, try interacting with it with VO-Shift-Down Arrow. Many times you will find that the Unknown control is just a container holding a host of other controls and information that VoiceOver can read just fine. An example of this type of Unknown is in the error window that Mac OS X displays when you try to connect to a network drive that isn’t there. The information in this window is contained in an "Unknown", but interacting with it gives you access to all the information.

Until next time!

Apple announced today that hit television programming from Canada’s top networks, US broadcasters and the National Hockey League (NHL) is now available for CAN$1.99 per episode from the iTunes Store in Canada (www.itunes.ca). iTunes customers can choose from Canadian-produced favorites such as the top-rated, award-winning "Corner Gas" from CTV, smash hit comedy "Little Mosque on the Prairie" from CBC, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "South Park" from Comedy Central and the NHL Games of the Year.

Congrats to our Canadian neighbors!