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VMWare has released Fusion 2.0 Beta 1, a public beta version of the next major version of their popular and fully VoiceOver accessible, virtualization solution for Mac OS X. This current beta sports a substantially redesigned interface, which has numerous access issues at present. Hopefully, the team at VMWare will remedy these before 2.0 is [...]
The fine developers over at OpenOffice.org have been working hard on full access to the popular office software suite with VoiceOver on Mac OS X. That work is starting to pay off. With the latest version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta, we now have VoiceOver access to most of the features of this free and [...]
Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com. It’s ongoing mission: To explore brief tips, to seek out new tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience, and to boldly provide access where no Mac has gone before. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work [...]
This past week, the first VI-accessible, fully 3D First Person Shooter, Audio Quake, was released for Intel Macs running Leopard. Audio quake is an adaptation of the immensely popular mainstream game, Quake, which was released by ID Software in 1996. One of the things which makes Audio Quake so interesting, is that it uses the [...]
Last week sees another first, as, in addition to the Mac release of Audio Quake, the very first 3D level Description Language (LDL) has also been released through the AGRIP project, for Mac. This add-on for Audio Quake allows a VI player to conceptualize and design their own fully 3 dimensional environments for the game. [...]
Curtain University Center for Accessible Technology (CUCAT) is developing a free and open source DAISY book player for Mac OS X. The application, christened Olearia after a variety of Australian daisy flower, will support playback of DAISY 2.02, DAISY/NISO 2002, DAISY/NISO 2005, and text-only DAISY digital talking books (i.e. Bookshare.org and NIAMS). More information is [...]
Curtain University Center for Accessible Technology (CUCAT), is working with Apple Inc. to develop a testing and certification program for Mac applications to insure accessibility for the blind, visually impaired, deaf, and print disabled. The program will allow software developers to include the "Mac Accessible" logo, to display to customers that the software meets accessibility [...]