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• It's Thanksgiving Day in the United States. We're thankful for Apple's commitment to accessibility in their products. # 2008/11/27
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• Apple released Safari 3.2.1 today. No known accessibility changes, but a good update to have nonetheless. Stability is the focus. # 2008/11/25
• News: Comparing Accessibility of the Big Three Operating System http://www.lioncourt.com/?p=247 # 2008/11/21

Apple released minor updates to QuickTime, iTunes, and FrontRow today. Our initial inspections have yielded no new accessibility enhancements with VoiceOver. The most notable differences in iTunes 7.6.2 appear to deal with syncing content back to iTunes from an AppleTV. If you find any accessibility enhancements we’ve missed, let us know.

As always, the updates are available through the "Software Update" option in the "Apple" menu.

Television content for download continues to make its way across the globe as Apple this morning announced that hit television programming from German networks ProSieben, Sat.1, ZDF Enterprises, Brainpool and US broadcasters ABC Studios and MTV Networks is now available from the iTunes Store in Germany. This announcement follows similar TV content launches in the UK and Canada last year.

Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a 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!

Many visually impaired users use the Finder’s built-in ability to jump to and select files by typing the first few letters of the desired file’s name. This proves to be a quick way to navigate through large file lists, as long as you know what you’re looking for. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, this can be a problem, however, if the file in question includes a space in its name, especially if that space appears early in the file name. An example might be a file named "A letter to Jane.rtf". As soon as you press the spacebar, QuickLook launches, and chances are you are not on the file you wanted. To avoid this, press Option-Space in place of the spacebar alone. This adds the space character to what you’re looking for, without activating QuickLook.

Until next time!