2 July, 2009 @ 10:15 pm by Lioncourt
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 of the page. Alternatively, you can click here.
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2 July, 2009 @ 8:24 am by Lioncourt
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 as a stellar podcast series.
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1 July, 2009 @ 4:39 pm by Lioncourt
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 Dictate Legal requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 (Leopard) or later and is priced at $595 US as a new purchase, or US$345 for current owners of MacSpeech Dictate 1.5. Users of MacSpeech Dictate V1.3 can pick it up for US$395.
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25 June, 2009 @ 1:52 pm by Lioncourt
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.
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