‘VoiceOver’ Archives

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is just a quick notice that we have received word that Apple’s newly released iLife 11 suite of applications includes significant accessibility enhancements. These improvements will be found in iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand. At the time of writing, we have not had the opportunity to test these applications yet, and do not have a [...]

  ?Thanks to the diligence and willingness to share, on the part of some amazing VIPhoners, (you know who you are) we now have a complete list of Voiceover key commands for iOS 4.1   NOTE: The abbreviation VO below, refers to the Voiceover (or VO) keys. These are the control and option keys (held [...]

Today Apple released iOS 4.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Among the improvements for Voiceover users, come not only a host of important bug fixes, such as proper editing of contact phone numbers, as well as the fact that Voiceover will now read tables in their proper order, but VO users now have very [...]

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 [...]

?Dallas, Texas August 19, 2010   Digital Miracles, L. L. C., announced today that washable audio labels are now available for sale on its website.  The labels are read by the Digit-Eyes app for the iPhone and enable people without vision to permanently label clothing and to record detailed information about the garment that is [...]

For Immediate Release   Contact Person: Davey Hulse Cell: (503) 559-3787 Email: PressRelations@digitalmiracles.com Website: www.digit-eyes.com Support: support@digitalmiracles.com   Digit-Eyes Lite Is Free   Digital Miracles, LLC, announced on July 13, 2010, that its Digit-Eyes Lite is now ready on the iTunes Store. Digit-Eyes Lite gives users the full power of the text-labeling portion of the revolutionary Digit-Eyes Audio Labeling [...]

Would you like to select and copy text from web pages or emails in iOS 4, but can’t fine the edit option in the rotor? -Here’s how!   Locate the text you’d like to start selecting, using  Voiceover navigation, on the web page or in the email and then double tap and hold, anywhere on [...]

This quick tip is for users of the iPHone 4. For all you shutterbugs, in the iPhone 4′s camera, you now have access to the zoom feature! Simply bring up the camera; double tap on the viewfinder and then flick to the right, three times. YOu’ll now see the zoom control. Flicking up or down [...]

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.