Archive for April, 2008

In the 119th episode of the MacWorld Podcast, host Christopher Breen is joined by Josh de Lioncourt to discuss VoiceOver and Apple’s progress in accessibility for the blind and visually impaired. The show also discusses the recent news of Mac clones. We’d like to thank Mr. Breen and MacWorld.com for taking the time to explore [...]

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 [...]

Today, Forbes is reporting that Apple is to acquire microprocessor maker PA Semi. The deal is thought to be worth $278 million, and could see the Cupertino-based company providing its own microprocessors in some of its products. Speculation is rife that these products may include the iPhone and iPod lines. If so, it could potentially [...]

We’ve added a new guide to our Guides and Tutorials section, explaining how to use the drag-and-drop facility available in VoiceOver. This guide applies only to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Click here to read the guide.

As many of you already know, you can subscribe to our RSS News Feed in your RSS aggregator of choice to keep up with the latest Mac-cessibility news. We’ve added a new Comments RSS Feed, so you can stay plugged into the community responses to news and commentary on Lioncourt.com. We’d like to encourage everyone [...]

In a lengthy article, ComputerWorld.com discusses access to computers for the blind and visually impaired. Though the article is extensive, covering topics from general computer access to web accessibility issues, there’s no acknowledgement of VoiceOver’s existence or Apple’s work to provide universal access to the visually impaired and other disabled groups. In fact, the article, [...]

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 [...]

Apple has enhanced the iTunes store so that you can now search for movies that are closed captioned. To access the feature, select "Search…" from the Store menu in iTunes to access the Power Search, then choose "Movies" from the Power Search pop-up menu. There’s a new checkbox "Search movies that are available with Closed [...]

We’d like to thank all of our readers and listeners for the tremendous response to this site. We are extremely pleased that our efforts have made a difference to so many. We have made some changes to the site, including an improved navigation bar, the addition of the Resource Directory, a better organized Top Software [...]

We are proud to introduce the Mac-cessibility Podcast, a companion to Lioncourt.com to bring you the latest news, commentary, and more from the world of accessibility of Apple products. In our first episode, we discuss the latest access news, discuss Net4Mac.com’s lack of accessibility, hear from a brand-new switcher in the SwitchBox segment, and more. [...]

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 [...]

Last week, a new social networking service was launched for Mac users called Net4Mac. The service requires subscribers to download a Mac OS X application to connect to and use their service. From what we have been able to determine so far, (which is admittedly limited), the software itself is fairly accessible with VoiceOver. Much [...]