Archive for June, 2009

Josh de Lioncourt reviews VoiceOver and the new accessibility features of the iPhone 3GS in our latest review. Enjoy, and feel free to leave comments on this post.

Lioncourt.com editor Holly Anderson has been compiling a list of third-party iPhone applications that the growing community of visually impaired iPhone users has used in the first week of the iPhone 3GS’s release. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and will doubtless grow as users become more comfortable with the new platform, but [...]

We provide some commentary on the National Federation of the Blind’s recent review of VoiceOver and the Mac, and their subsequent response to the outcry from users in our latest editorial.

In this special edition episode, the knights of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast gather to discuss the launch weekend of the newly accessible iPhone 3GS, give our thoughts on VoiceOver for the iPhone, and much more. Stay tuned at the end for a particularly substantial blooper reel as an added bonus! We were all a [...]

In CNet’s iPhone 3G S review, they devote a section to accessibility, including VoiceOver, Zoom, and Black on White features.
Though they acknowledge that they are not visually impaired users, they tried and found VoiceOver’s capabilities to be "impressive", and give a little more insight on how this revolutionary new screen reader will work. We highly [...]

In episode 163 of the MacWorld Podcast, host Christopher Breen focuses on Apple’s new iPhone 3.0 software and the new iPhone 3G S handset. Mac-cessibility’s Josh de Lioncourt is brought on to discuss VoiceOver on the new iPhone 3G S, as well as Apple’s upcoming accessibility enhancements and more.
Once again, we’d like to thank Mr. [...]

As the excitement builds in many corners of the visually impaired community for Friday’s launch of the iPhone 3G S, which includes a specialized gesture-based version of VoiceOver, some are already preparing to undertake this historic journey together. If you’re interested in discussing the iPhone, its new accessibility features, VoiceOver and related topics, you can [...]

Last week, Apple released Safari 4, the latest version of their popular web browsing solution. This incarnation offers some accessibility enhancements, as well as a number of new features.
As we reported previously, Safari 4 corrects a number of accessibility problems that plagued earlier versions, such as same page links and multi-select list boxes. Additionally, the [...]

Many Skype users like to update their mood texts throughout the day to reflect their situation or as the name implies, their mood.
When using the latest Skype beta (version 2.8.0.X) a VoiceOver user can do this very quickly by doing the following:
• In the Skype main window, use VO to navigate to the ‘Edit Profile’ [...]

Though many said it could never be done, Apple has yet again shown a tremendous commitment to accessibility today with the announcement of the iPhone 3GS, the latest version of its popular iPhone handset, which ships with a version of VoiceOver optimized for it. Using this incredible new technology, the blind and visually impaired [...]

It’s time for this month’s edition of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast. This month’s episode is #3, entitled "A Visit From Steve-Megatron".
Topics covered:

Introduce this month’s panelists, including Holly Anderson, Darcy Burnard, Steve Sawczyn, Eric Troup, and Josh de Lioncourt.
Mac OS X 10.5.7 accessibility changes-"OMG!"
MacSpeech Dictate.
The upcoming World Wide Developer’s Conference and possible accessibility announcements
The rumored [...]

Today, Apple released iTunes version 8.2. Along with some unspecified bug fixes, the update delivers support for the as yet unreleased iPhone and iPod Touch 3.0 software and, of greater interest to our readers, accessibility improvements.
We will update this post as soon as we have some clarification on exactly what these accessibility enhancements are.
iTunes 8.2 [...]