• Retweet: @vmwarefusion : Fusion 50% off today, one day only. Details: http://is.gd/9Gqi Coupon code "CyberMondayDeal" # 2008/12/01
• It's Thanksgiving Day in the United States. We're thankful for Apple's commitment to accessibility in their products. # 2008/11/27
• We've added social bookmarking and "Send this to a Friend" to the Mac-cessibility Site as a trial. Let us know what you think. # 2008/11/27
• Apple released Safari 3.2.1 today. No known accessibility changes, but a good update to have nonetheless. Stability is the focus. # 2008/11/25
• News: Comparing Accessibility of the Big Three Operating System http://www.lioncourt.com/?p=247 # 2008/11/21

Olearia, the DAISY playback application for Mac OS X under development by Curtain University Center for Accessible Technology (CUCAT), has reached beta status. The current version, (v0.90b), can be downloaded from the Olearia site.

Olearia is a free and open source DAISY playback application for Mac OS X. The final release will boast playback of multiple DAISY formats, VoiceOver compatibility, and support for other Mac OS X technologies, such as Spotlight.

Today, MacSpeech announced the 1.2 release of their MacSpeech Dictate voice recognition software for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11) and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.2 or later.).

Features new in 1.2 include a "Spelling Mode" which gives you the ability to dictate words or acronyms by spelling them out one letter at a time, phrase Training,many bug fixes, and a "Move" command to simplify verbal editing. Improvements have been made to the interface that will enhance the user experience.

MacSpeech Dictate sells for $199.00 USD, but existing users may upgrade to 1.2 for free. MacSpeech Dictate is VoiceOver compatible.

After three years in development and extensive testing, OpenOffice.org has announced the release of version 3.0 of their office productivity suite. In addition to a native Mac OS X version, OpenOffice.org V3.0 offers support for the Macintosh accessibility API’s, including VoiceOver.

It is not yet known whether this final release sports any significant improvements for accessibility over the previous Release Candidate (RC) versions we previous reported on.

OpenOffice.org V3.0 is a powerful, free and open source productivity suite which includes word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation features, among many others.

You can download OpenOffice.org from www.OpenOffice.org.

The fourth Release Candidate (RC) version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been released and features some accessibility enhancements and bug fixes. While not perfect, this popular office suite of applications is a powerful tool to create complex word processing documents, spreadsheets, and more.

If you need to frequently use the Read-All feature of VoiceOver, (VO-A, or Ctrl-Option-A), this may not be the application for you, as that functionality still is inoperative in OPenOffice.org. The reason is that the application treats each paragraph as a separate control. If you don’t mind using another app, such as TextEdit or Bean for continuous reading, OpenOffice.org is a fantastic alternative to the inaccessible Microsoft Office, which Microsoft has still not improved.

You can download OpenOffice.org 3.0RC4 from www.OpenOffice.org