‘Development’ Archives

Today, Apple posted its thoughts on Adobe Flash, and the reasons why it has not been included on the company’s line of mobile de ices, such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The piece is well reasoned and clearly presented, although it is interesting that the biggest reason to VoiceOver users not wanting Flash [...]

The Acapela Group has announced an update to their high-quality text-to-speech engine software development kit for iPhone OS, with support for iPhone OS v3.2 and the iPad. Acapela TTS for iPhone SDK has been used in a wide array of talking apps available on the Apple AppStore, adding spoken feedback to rich content and inspiring [...]

Today, Adobe Systems announced their intention to support accessibility with their Flash and Flex tools on multiple OS platforms, including Mac OS X. The full statement reads: Adobe understands how important it is for computer users with disabilities to be able to access the entire Internet. In recognition of the needs of computer users with [...]

This week, Adobe Systems Inc. announced a feature of Flash Professional CS5 which compiles Flash applications into native iPhone ones. According to their FAQ, applications developed in this way are "native" iPhone executables, which would suggest a high likelihood of accessibility in apps which do not rely heavily on graphical interaction. Video games, for instance, [...]

Today, Apple issued a press release detailing their plans for the World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) keynote on 08/June. Specifically, they mention improvements to Snow Leopard that will be shown at the conference, including accessibility. Here’s an excerpt: Snow Leopard and Mac technical sessions will showcase hundreds of refinements to the operating system and dive [...]