24 January, 2008 @ 8:18 am by Lioncourt
After a break for the holidays, we’re back with Mac-cessibility Quick Tips, 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!
Unlabeled or unidentifiable links getting you down? Want to check the destination URL of a link before you click it, just to make sure it is connecting to a reputable web site? In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, VoiceOver provides this functionality with a simple command available anywhere you can interact with HTML. VO-Shift-U will announce the URL to which a link is pointing. Such information can also provide enlightening information about links that are otherwise uninformative, where the web site developer has…ahem, forgotten…to label graphical links properly.
Until next time!
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24 January, 2008 @ 8:09 am by Lioncourt
Microsoft has altered the EULA (End User License Agreement) for the Home Basic and Home Premium varieties of its Windows Vista operating system. Previously, it was technically possible, but illegal, to run either version of Vista in a virtual machine with software such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop for Mac, much to the aggravation of Mac users who need, however reluctantly, to run Windows. Microsoft has relented, and users of the Home Basic and Home Premium versions of Windows Vista will no longer b in violation of the agreement.
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