Archive for October, 2008

Olearia, the DAISY playback application for Mac OS X under development by Curtain University Center for Accessible Technology (CUCAT), has reached beta status. The current version, (v0.90b), can be downloaded from the Olearia site.
Olearia is a free and open source DAISY playback application for Mac OS X. The final release will boast playback [...]

Today, MacSpeech announced the 1.2 release of their MacSpeech Dictate voice recognition software for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11) and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.2 or later.).
Features new in 1.2 include a "Spelling Mode" which gives you the ability to dictate words or acronyms by spelling them out one letter at a time, phrase Training,many [...]

Today in Cupertino, Apple announced significant changes to its line of notebook computers, a new Apple Cinema display model, and new pricing for these products.
The new MacBook and MacBook Pros employ a new manufacturing process which results in smaller, lighter, and more durable machines. These new MacBooks are made from a block of aluminum [...]

After three years in development and extensive testing, OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 3.0 of their office productivity suite. In addition to a native Mac OS X version, OpenOffice.org V3.0 offers support for the Macintosh accessibility API’s, including VoiceOver.
It is not yet known whether this final release sports any significant improvements for [...]

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 [...]

No, Apple hasn’t set James Bond into the Mac OS X operating system quite yet. The "007" only refers to this being the seventh distinct security update for Mac OS X this year. Security Update 2008-007 fixes several vulnerabilities in both the Unix under-pinnings and the Macintosh OS. It’s recommended for users [...]

Apple Inc. has issued an invite to the media for an event on 14/October. The invite reads only "The spotlight turns to notebooks."
It has long been rumored that Apple would release new or updated models of their MacBook line of notebook computers this month, so the announcement is not a surprise. It is [...]

The fourth Release Candidate (RC) version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released and features some accessibility enhancements and bug fixes. While not perfect, this popular office suite of applications is a powerful tool to create complex word processing documents, spreadsheets, and more.
If you need to frequently use the Read-All feature of VoiceOver, (VO-A, or [...]

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 [...]

Tonight, Apple released iTunes 8.0.1 with a number of bug fixes and enhancements to their popular digital media management software. According to the release notes with this update, we will find access to iTunes U with VoiceOver, as well as improved syncing of speaking menus for the iPod Nano 4G, and other improvements to [...]