‘Hardware’ Archives

Today, Apple announced many new products at its annual September media event. Here are some highlights, with emphasis on accessibility. More details regarding access features will likely be forthcoming. The iPod shuffle models have been physically redesigned, but still include VoiceOver navigation of their playlists and content. Buttons have been re-introduced. Pricing begins at $49 [...]

In this first minicast episode, Cara Quinn demonstrates the new features of the iPhone 4′s camera and their remarkable accessibility. This entire podcast was recorded and edited on the iPhone 4.

Today, Apple unveiled the next generation of its popular mobile phone device, iPhone 4. new features include a forward facing camera, stainless steel and glass enclosure, gyro-scope, quadruple the screen resolution of the previous generation iPhone, enhanced camera with 5MP resolution and LED flash, Apple designed A4 processor, approximately 40% longer battery life, and much [...]

Today, Apple will be taking the wraps off of new products and services at its annual World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, if history is any indication. Also historically, Apple’s advancements in accessibility tend to be announced during WWDC, though not always necessarily during Steve Jobs’s keynote presentation. For example, last year brought [...]

On Monday, 07/June, Steve Jobs will take the stage at APple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco. The Screenless Switchers, ATMaine.com, and Mac-cessibility are joining forces to bring you live discussion of the event as it happens. You can tune in at approximately 12:30 PM EDT, (9:30 AM PDT), at this link. Additionally, [...]

In the May 2010 issue of AccessWorld, a publication of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), readers are presented with a first look at the Apple iPad. In an article entitled "24 Hours with the iPad", Bradley Hodges discusses his impressions of the iPad in his initial 24 hours with the device. It is [...]

Today, Apple announced iPad availability for several countries will begin on 28/May/2010. Among the countries where availability has been confirmed are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple’s online store beginning on Monday, 10/May. In July, Apple plans to expand iPad availability [...]

If you’ve been waiting for the release of the Apple iPad with 3G connectivity, your wait is over. Starting this evening, Apple stores will be briefly closed from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM local time to roll out the new iPad 3G models thereafter. If you had pre-ordered an iPad with 3G connectivity from the [...]

Electronista reports that the iPad Camera Connection Kit, designed for importing photos from a camera or memory card to Apple’s iPad device, has a number of other unadvertised capabilities. Among these are support for USB microphones and headsets, ideally suited for use with the Skype application, as well as support for standard USB keyboards. This [...]

In "A First Look At the iPad – Pt. 1", we take an initial look through the iPad’s accessibility features, including the changes to VoiceOver, iBooks, text navigation and entry, and more. In future installments, we’ll be covering many of the included applications, third-party applications, and other features of the latest innovative technology out of [...]

Our latest episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast is a special edition. Join some of our Knights of the Round Table Podcast as we informally discuss our initial thoughts and exploration from iPad launch day. This will be the first in a series of podcasts exploring the newest member of Apple’s family of accessible [...]

In the seventh episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, knights Cara Quinn, Eric Troup, Darcy Burnard, Holly Anderson, Steve Sawczyn, and Josh de Lioncourt discuss Apple’s big event to introduce the iPad slate computing device, its accessibility, speculation on how VoiceOver may differ from the iPhone, and what we think it means for the [...]