‘Site News’ Archives

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 [...]

We’ve published a new editorial piece on the new third-generation iPod Shuffle, its VoiceOver implementation, and what all this could potentially mean for the future of other Apple products. You can read the editorial here.

Today, the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) announced a cooperative agreement with Apple Inc. to make Apple’s iTunes software more accessible to the blind and visually impaired. Earlier this month, Apple released iTunes 8 with substantial improvements to accessibility for both Mac and Windows users. Under the agreement between Apple and the NFB, Apple [...]

Lioncourt.com is pleased to announce that you can now keep up with the latest Mac-cessibility news on Twitter! Simply follow the user name "Maccessibility", or visit our Twitter page. To learn more about Twitter, or to register, click here.

In episode #26 of the ScreenlessSwitchers Podcast, hosts Darcy and Holly are joined by Josh de Lioncourt of the Mac-cessibility site, Steve Sawczyn of the Assistive Technology Show, and Shane Jackson of the BlindWorld Blog and Podcast. The quintet discuss iTunes 8 accessibility, the new iPod Nano 4G and its speaking interface, Apple’s new accessibility [...]

Shane Jackson has had some quality time with the new iPod Nano 4G, and has written up a review for Lioncourt.com. In "Shake, Shuffle, and Roll", Shane discusses thevarious methods blind and visually impaired users have employed to utilize their iPods in the past, and what makes the new Nano, with its speaking interface, such [...]

We’ve just published a new Lioncourt.com editorial. In "Don’t Panic: Your First Trip to the Apple Store", Josh de Lioncourt provides the basics to get you up to speed with the Mac and VoiceOver before you take your first trip to an Apple Store. The article can be applied to any first-time Mac experience for [...]