‘Third-Party Products’ Archives

?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 [...]

Though usable, the Dragon Dictation iOS app from Nuance.com had a number of accessibility challenges for VoiceOver users. At last, these problems have been correcte din the latest version of the software. Dragon Dictation provides voice recognition for iOS devices. Text generated can be copied to the clipboard, sent via SMS or email, posted to [...]

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 [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact person: Davey Hulse Cell: 503-559-3787 Email: PressRelations@digitalmiracles.com DIGIT-EYES AUDIO LABELING SYSTEM ADVANCES INDEPENDENCE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED Digital Miracles, LLC, is pleased to announce a major advancement in assistive technology for people who are blind and visually impaired. The Digit-Eyes Audio Labeling System has been approved for sale on the Apple Apps [...]

Despite declaring their intention to implement accessibility in a future version of their Flash player, Adobe Systems continues to display a seeming disregard for accessibility of their products. Indeed, things just keep getting worse. Last week, Adobe released version 10.1 of their Flash player plugin for both the Mac and Windows operating systems, which included [...]

No Tie, LLC has recently released AutoVerbal Talking Soundboard for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The application provides a way for those who have difficulty communicating the ability to speak to others. From the description: 3 ways to speak: (1) 100′s of built-in phrases in over a dozen categories (2) Program several buttons to [...]

In this special edition episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table and Screenless Switchers podcasts, our knights discuss the WWDC keynote announcements, the new iPhone 4, iOS 4.0, iBooks, and mobile accessibility in general.

Today, AT&T announced in a press release that changes are coming to its data plans for iPhone and iPad 3G users on 07/June/2010, as well as a tethering option. The $30 unlimited data plan is being replaced with two cheaper plans that impose restrictions to the amount of data users can consume per month. The [...]

MRRSoftware’s popular Twitter client for Mac OS X, Syrinx, has been updated to version 2.4, and includes a number of new features in addition to some VoiceOver enhancements and fixes. VoiceOver support enhancements include a significantly improved timeline display. Problems with reviewing tweets word-by-word with VoiceOver, the double reading of tweets, and more have been [...]

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, [...]

The National Braille Press (NBP) have published a new book entitled “Using the Accessible iPod, iTunes 9 Edition”, by Ana Dresner. This book provides the latest information on the accessible iPods created by Apple – the fourth and fifth generation iPod Nanos and the third generation iPod Shuffle – and the latest version of iTunes. [...]

Solona.net, in addition to its Captcha solution and RAIVE services, recently began offering tactile iPhone screen protectors, which provide tactile feedback to ease typing on the iPhone. Now, Solona is offering similar protectors for the iPad and iPod touch devices as well. In addition, new tactile layouts have been created for a variety of uses [...]