‘Development’ Archives

Here at Maccessibility, we would sincerely like to thank Steven Melzer, the developer of “domino train”, for adding VoiceOver support in the latest release of his game.  It is important for us to recognize and applaud developers who make the effort to make their apps accessible to those of us who are visually impaired.   [...]

In this episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, the knights discuss the latest features of iOS 5 (including VoiceOver), accessibility improvements in Xcode 4.2, VoiceOver changes in AppleTV 4.4, Siri, and the new iPhone 4S. Also, on 29/October/2011, the knights will be recording a special Q&A episode of the podcast. You can send your [...]

Among the avalanche of updates released by Apple this week was a new version of Xcode. The latest changes to Apple’s integrated development environment for Mac OS X and iOS includes vast improvements to access for VoiceOver users. In general, Apple has taken an approach to Xcode which mirrors that which they employed in making [...]

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. [...]

Ananse Productions has just released a new accessible puzzle game for IOS called Stem Stumper. The basic premise of the game is that you are Mimea, a vine who needs fertilizer to grow. You navigate around a garden, avoiding or destroying obstacles and finding and eating the fertilizer. It sounds like a simple enough premise, [...]

iOS developer Matt Gemmell recently wrote a piece which makes the case for third-party developers to ensure accessibility of their iOS applications, as well as the ways in which they can easily do so. It is a must-read for developers considering application accessibility, and will be of interest to users of iOS in general. It [...]

?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 [...]

Tonight, Apple released Safari version 5.0. Our initial impressions are of enormous speed gains where regards the browser’s performance when using Safari 5 with VoiceOver. The latest version of Apple’s popular web browser features the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, and [...]

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, [...]

Last week, Google released Chrome for Mac, its web browser product. Despite being built on the open source WebKit HTML rendering engine, which itself provides accessibility support for the Mac OS X platform with VoiceOver, Google’s final release provides no accessibility to web content whatsoever. Indeed, apart from menus and a handful of standard controls, [...]

Earlier this month, Wired took a sneak peek at some of the upcoming features in beta 3 of iPhone OS 4.0. Some of these, such as a screen orientation lock and possibly file sharing seem to be making their way over to the iPhone from the iPad. The article also shares a bit of detail [...]