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Archive for July, 2009

  • The Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast #4 – Badum Ching!> 20 July, 2009 @ 3:16 pm

    In episode #4 of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, knights Darcy Burnard, Holly Anderson, Cara Quinn, and Josh de Lioncourt discuss our impressions of the iPhone 3GS after a few weeks, how VoiceOver for the iPhone has been accepted by the visually impaired community, third-party applications for the iPhone, what Apple has revealed about gestures [...]

  • New York Times's David Pogue Blogs about VoiceOver on the iPhone 3GS> 15 July, 2009 @ 3:34 pm

    The New York Times’s David Pogue blogs about VoiceOver on the new iPhone 3GS in this entry. Like the overwhelming majority of blind and visually impaired iPhone 3GS users, he has found VoiceOver’s capabilities to be quite impressive, though he admits he’s no expert, as he’s not blind.
    It is fantastic to see apple’s extraordinary efforts [...]

  • Apple Releases iTunes 8.2.1> 15 July, 2009 @ 11:53 am

    Today, APple released the latest version of their popular multimedia management and playback software iTunes, version 8.2.1. Our initial inspection shows only one accessibility fix. Typing the first few letters of an entries name in the Playlist Browser now appropriately announces the entry that becomes selected, something which had been broken in the previous version [...]

  • Accessible iPhone Apps List Grows to Over 100> 11 July, 2009 @ 1:29 pm

    In just three weeks, the list of VoiceOver compatible iPhone applications has grown to include over one hundred entries. The rapidly growing community of blind and visually impaired iPhone users have tried these apps and recommended them to others. Don’t forget, you can navigate to the list page on your iPhone, choose the "Utilities" button [...]

  • Apple Releases Safari 4.0.2 with Crash Fix> 8 July, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

    Today, Apple released Safari version 4.0.2. This update contains security and stability fixes. One of these fixes is for the crash bug that plagued VoiceOver users when visiting some retail sites, including Apple’s online store. Mac users can obtain the update by selected "Software Update" from the Apple menu.

  • Apple Posts iPhone Manual for VoiceOver Users> 2 July, 2009 @ 10:15 pm

    Apple has posted an accessible version of the iPhone manual on their web site, ideal for screen reader users. You can access it on your iPhone 3GS if you open the "iPhone User Guide" bookmark in Mobile Safari , and flick right a few times to find the new button in the upper left corner [...]

  • The MacCast Podcast Spotlights iPhone Accessibility> 2 July, 2009 @ 8:24 am

    In the latest episode of the MacCast, a popular mainstream podcast focusing on Apple products, host Adam Christianson invites Shelly Brisbin, Josh de Lioncourt, and Shane Jackson to discuss the new accessibility features of the iPhone 3GS. We’d like to thank Adam for his coverage of accessibility on the show, and highly recommend the MacCast [...]

  • MacSpeech Dictate Legal Ships> 1 July, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

    Today, MacSpeech, Inc. announced the release of MacSpeech Dictate Legal, a speech recognition solution for legal professionals and their staff with support for over 30,000 legal words and terms.
    Like its less specialized sibling, MacSpeech Dictate Legal supports dictating text directly into applications, and issuing commands via speech recognition technology and includes a USB headset microphone.
    MacSpeech [...]

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