Archive for January 6th, 2009

The new iWork ’09, which Apple released today, sports a slew of new features, but the most impressive to VoiceOver users will be its accessibility. Apple’s come through for visually impaired users once again. This powerful productivity suite has been beautifully set up to work well with VoiceOver. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote all work well. [...]

The biggest news at this morning’s Apple keynote presentation at MacWorld Expo 2009 was easily surrounding iTunes, and is also the news that will be of the most interest to our visually impaired readers. Starting today, a staggering eight million songs in the iTunes Music Store will be made available DRM-Free, with the remainder of [...]

Apple announced the awaited update to it’s 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer. The new model includes the same unibody aluminum design as the rest of the MacBook line, the same glass trackpad, up to 8GB of memory, both hard drive and SSD drive options, and extended battery life. The new model is the thinnest, lightest [...]

Today, Apple announced updates to their iWork and iLife application suites. The new features are certainly impressive, and incremental, but we are uncertain at this time whether or not any accessibility enhancements are part of these updates. Additionally, iWork.com became a public beta today. This suite of browser-based applications allows users to collaborate on iWork [...]