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Archive for February, 2008

  • Accessibly Add Folders and Files to Your Dock> 28 February, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

    Greg Kearny of the Wyoming Medical Center has released a new Automator Workflow for Voiceover users. The free download allows VoiceOver users to easily add folders and files to their dock, and is a great addition to the newly accessible "Stacks" feature in Mac OS X 10.5.2. The download can be found at [...]

  • Apple Posts VoiceOver Podcast on iTunes> 28 February, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

    Today, Apple posted a VoiceOver Quick Start Manual podcast in the iTunes Store. It is the human recorded version of the manual originally intended for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but is applicable to 10.5 Leopard as well. Apple Accessibility hopes to have one for Leopard as well in the future. This [...]

  • A Response to NFB's Blog Review of VoiceOver with leopard> 21 February, 2008 @ 1:01 pm

    In December, Tony Olivero of the National Federation of the Blind published an article for the NFB Blog reviewing VoiceOver for the Macintosh platform. Unfortunately, this article was less than accurate. We wanted a chance to address the claims made in this review.
    The first concern presented by the reviewer is accessing the Quick [...]

  • Apple Includes Closed Captioning in iTunes Movie DOwnloads> 20 February, 2008 @ 2:24 pm

    iPods, QuickTime, and iTunes include support for Closed Captioning for the deaf and hearing impaired. Apple has expanded that to include AppleTV, and now offers movies from the iTunes Store which include Closed Captioning in the video file. Not all movies area available this way yet, but Apple is working with movie studios [...]

  • Garage Band Sports Major IMprovements for VO Users> 20 February, 2008 @ 2:12 pm

    Last week’s update to the iLife ‘08 suite from Apple proved to be a boon for VoiceOver users. Garage Band the suite’s recording-studio software is now radically improved in the area of accessibility. Indeed, virtually all functions and areas of the program are usable with VoiceOver, according to reports from VoiceOver users. [...]

  • Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.2> 18 February, 2008 @ 12:09 pm

    Last week, Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.2, a free update to it’s Leopard operating system. The update includes a tremendous number of fixes and changes, including one that should please VoiceOver users. Stacks are now accessible via the List view. You can set a stack on the dock to display in [...]

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