‘Apple News’ Archives

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I [...]

Apple has released an update to iTunes, it’s flagship media management and storefront software. The release notes list VoiceOver fixes among the changes in version 10.4.1, which should please users who have struggled with version 10.4 in recent weeks. While the vast majority of iTunes releases have worked well with VoiceOver, there have occasionally been [...]

In this episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, our knights discuss, primarily, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and its new accessibility features, especially the new features found in VoiceOver RoaringApps.com – A site to check the Lion compatibility of your applications

This morning Apple released Mac Os 10.7 lion in the mac app store. The cost is $29.95. You must be running the latest version of snow leopard to purchase and download this new OS. Stay tuned to this site for more reviews of the new accessibility features in the coming days.

In this episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, our knights discuss their thoughts on Apple’s recent announcements, including iOS 5, iCloud, and the announced new features coming in VoiceOver for OS X Lion.

At 10:00 AM PDT, Apple wil be holding its World Wide Developers Conference Keynote address. Hosted by Steve Jobs, Apple will be pulling the wraps off of iOS 5, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and its new iCloud service. You can listen to the Mac-cessibility Round Table Knights as the news unfolds at this link. [...]

The last significant hold out from Apple’s iBooks store, Random House, has decided to shift to the agency model now used by Apple and others and make their titles available. This is a fantastic development for visually impaired book lovers, providing unparalleled access to published works to them at the same time as said works [...]

With much fanfare, News Corp launched its long anticipated and much hyped iPad publication The Daily. This new vision of journalism is a blend of multiple traditional news mediums into an iPad app, incorporating textual, video, audio, and interactive content. Unfortunately, though the Daily’s web site appears to be largely accessible, no effort to make [...]

Today, Apple updated the software for its second generation AppleTV device to version 4.1, which brings AirPlay functionality as well as VOiceOver support. VoiceOver allows visually impaired users to navigate the device and use its many features, and is a tremendous breakthrough for blind home theater enthusiasts. We will be reporting on this further as [...]

Today, Apple released iOS 4.2.1 for its iPhone, iPod, and iPad devices. In addition to bringing all of the 4.X functionality to the iPad, the update introduces some new features to VOiceOver. Among these are improved web navigation options, such as enhanced table navigation. The ability to add a speech rate setting option to the [...]

In this episode of the Round Table, our knights discuss FaceTime for the Mac, iLife 11 accessibility enhancements, (including GarageBand), and more. Notes: Holly’s picks – NewsRack for iOS and The AppStore Pundit podcast Darcy’s picks – Hazel for Mac and RememberTheMilk.com (service) M.J.’s picks – oMoby for iOS and StoryMill for Mac Josh’s pick [...]

We have received a little more information on GarageBand accessibility in the iLife 11 suite. Here are the highlights: Record and edit track information Accessibly select Software instruments Select, edit, and paste audio or MIDI loops Modify instrument parameters, (i.e. software instruments, and effects) Modify regions, (i.e. loop points, selecting cycle takes, moving start and [...]