Archive for May, 2008

Today, Apple release Ma OS X 10.5.3, which contains a significant number of enhancements and fixes for the operating system, including VoiceOver. Some changes in VoiceOver include:

Braille Update 1.0 which enables GW Micro, HandyTech, HIMS, Nippon, and Papenmeier Refreshable Braille displays.
Addresses an issue with Braille dot 7 and 8 underlining.
Fixes an issue in which [...]

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 [...]

Most VoiceOver users are well aware of the wildly inaccurate and blatantly bias review of VoiceOver published by the American Foundation for the Blind back in 2005. There have also been allegations from multiple and separate sources that representatives of the AFB have commented that they would attempt to undermine VoiceOver, viewing it as [...]

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 Saturday, 24/May/2008 at 10:00 AM, a new Apple Store is opening at the Pacific Centre mall in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The new store is located on the upper level. As usual, the first one-thousand guests to attend the grand opening will get a free T-shirt.
Apple Stores are a great way to [...]

We’d like to welcome our newest editor to Lioncourt.com, Cara Quinn. Cara has written our latest editorial piece, "A Key to Leopard". In this article, Cara explores a myriad of ways to navigate Mac OS X using the keyboard. Newcomers to the Mac as well as seasoned veterans are likely to learn [...]

The most recent nightly builds of WebKit have repaired many longstanding access issues. The most notable of the current fixes is the exposure of some web form controls to access solutions, including VoiceOver.
When these changes make their way into the official WebKit release, and then into Safari and Mac OS X, we will be [...]

The most recent issue, (#4), of the Assistiveware Newsletter focuses on persons with visual impairments and their solutions to access issues on the Macintosh platform.
The newsletter is comprised of contributions by users of Assistiveware products, and includes no advertising.

Today, Assistiveware released their first product under the Convenienceware banner, version 1.5 of their popular GhostReader.
GhostReader converts text to speech, both in real-time or sending the output to iTunes/iPod/iPhone compatible formats for easy playback on the go. It works with a variety of document formats, and can speak selected text in any application. It is [...]

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 [...]

Apple Inc. today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 9, 2008 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations [...]

On Thursday, 15/May/2008, Apple Inc. will be opening its third Apple retail store in Boston, Massachusetts. The new store, located at 815 Boylston Street, will open its doors to the public at 6:00 PM. Like most grand-openings, T-shirts and other give-aways will be available to those who attend the event while supplies last. [...]