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Today, Apple will be streaming their media event live at Apple.com. Afterward, the Mac-cessibility Round Table will be streaming live our reactions to today’s event. You can listen to the stream at this link, and participate live on Twitter by using the hash tag #VOLive. Apple’s event today is expected to focus primarily on iPods, [...]

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, [...]

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After our recent editorial where M.J. Phoenix voiced her concerns about the Royal National Institute for the Blind‘s recent review of the Apple iPad and some apparent misconceptions, Shaun Leamon, the author of the original review, took the time to write up a response in the hopes of clarifying the RNIB’s stance on the latest [...]

In our latest editorial, Apple in the "Blind" World, Mac-cessibility contributor M.J. Phoenix voices her frustration with an article from the RNIB regarding the iPad, which includes some blatant mis-statements.

In part 2 of our iPad review, we explore the Mail app which is included on Apple’s new iPad device. We focus primarily on its usage and accessibility with the VoiceOver screen reader. For additional coverage, be sure to read part 1 here.

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 [...]

Spring is here! Have you been contemplating ways to clean up your Mac’s files and folders? In our most recent editorial, we look at a simple way to use Mac OS X’s built-in Automator utility to help keep your "Downloads" folder tidy, so such cleaning projects are needed less often.

One of the most frequently asked questions by VoiceOver users is some variation on, "When will we have access to Flash?" The answer has been, as far as we have been able to determine, that Adobe Systems Inc. has no plans to provide accessibility in Flash, or any of their other products for that matter, [...]

In the week since the launch of the Mac-cessibility Network, we’ve received some feedback from users, and have begun implementing some new features and changes in response. We’d like to draw your attention to a few of these, and there are more on the way. In the upper left corner of all pages, there is [...]

Lioncourt.com editor Holly Anderson has been compiling a list of third-party iPhone applications that the growing community of visually impaired iPhone users has used in the first week of the iPhone 3GS’s release. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and will doubtless grow as users become more comfortable with the new platform, but [...]