Browse tag: accessibility

Browse tag: accessibility

Mi-Football iPod speaker: Sing in style after a match
Mi-Football has introduced a novel looking iPod speaker system shaped like a football (or, if you're on the other side of the Atlantic, a soccer ball).
Snow Watch: 1Password, AssisitiveWare apps 10.6-compatible
Agile Web Solutions says its 1Password password management utility will run on Snow Leopard, while AssistiveWare updated five of its accessibility applications for the new OS. The SmartSleep preference pane will run on 10.6 as well after a recent update.
Snow Leopard makes strides in accessibility
OS X 10.6 adds several features that make the operating system easier to use, including new trackpad gestures and an improved VoiceOver.
Cure for the non-working number pad
You say your keyboard's number pad is non-functional? Here's the cure.
Video: World Tech Update
In this week’s show Iran’s a-Twitter after elections, iPhone 3GS readies for launch, Acer announces new phones for September, Samsung shows off an Android phone, Buzz Aldrin talks tech, new OLED technology is demonstrated and Guitar Hero is adapted for people with visual impairments and for amputees.
What's new in iPhone 3.0
Apple showed off a number of the new features coming in iPhone 3.0 at Monday's WWDC keynote. While we saw many of them demoed earlier this year, there were a few new surprises.
MacSpeech updates Dictate speech-recognition program
A vocabulary editor that lets users add, delete, manage, and train the program to recognize words in their profile highlights the additions in MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, released on Thursday.
Report: iPhone 3.0 may include voice recognition, synthesis features
Frameworks uncovered in the beta version of iPhone 3.0 suggest that the update may also include voice recognition and synthesis.
A Special Phone app helps visually-impaired use the iPhone
Visually-impaired iPhone users have one potential solution for simple dialing with a new iPhone app dubbed A Special Phone.
Google shows off 'eyes-free' touchscreen dialing
Google engineers have devised a clever system to allow vision-impaired users to dial phone numbers on a touchscreen phone without having to look at the screen.
Apple settles San Francisco store disability lawsuit
Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit complaining that the San Francisco Apple Store was not accessible to disabled customers.
Quadriplegic Mac user launches apparel line
A man paralyzed from the neck down has launched his own clothing line with help from his Mac and some specialized software.
Vlingo launches free voice-recognition iPhone app
Vlingo has launched its free voice-recognition app for the iPhone, allowing users to speak certain commands to their devices.
Griffin offers iPod component, composite video cables
Griffin is offering component and composite video cables complete with USB connectors and an AC charging block, to connect your iPod to a home entertainment system.
Apple releases iTunes v8.0.2 with minor fixes
Apple released the iTunes 8.0.2 update on the coattails of the iPhone 2.2 software update.
Voice Recogniation: Apple, Google should talk
Google's latest version of its iPhone search application adds the ability to search by voice. So how come Apple hasn't added voice-recognition yet?
MacSpeech Dictate offers new phrase training
MacSpeech's Dictate speech recognition software gains important additions in its 1.2 release.
VirtualKeyboard adds non-Roman language support
Virtual Keyboard now supports non-Roman languages and other new features in its 3.5 release.
Working Mac: Save time and type less
If you regularly mouse through menus to find the commands you want in OS X and your favorite apps, there's a quicker way: Kirk McElhearn explains how to take advantage of keyboard shortcuts.
Speakapedia converts Wikipedia articles to spoken word
Speakapedia is a new utility that converts Wikipedia text into spoken word tracks.
KeyStrokes on-screen keyboard goes Universal
KeyStrokes 4.1 is an update to AssistiveWare's on-screen keyboard for physically disabled users.
Wow-Pen Joy vertical mouse reduces wrist fatigue
The Wow-Pen Joy is an ergonomically-shaped mouse that enables you to rest your wrist vertically.
'SlipCover' touchscreen offered for iMac
Troll Touch now offers a user-installable touch screen conversion for the iMac.
GhostReader assistive software adds new voices
GhostReader, AssistivWear's text to speech software, adds new voices for some languages and enhances others, and also features other changes.
Mac clones and accessibility
In this episode of the Macworld Podcast we explore long-standing issues that current events sometimes elbow aside: the benefits that OS X brings to visually impaired and blind Mac users, and Mac clones.
Expo Notes: Tomorrow's announcements today
We have a front-runner in our Favorite Press Release from Expo contest.
MacSpeech unveils Dictate
MacSpeech is developing a new dictation product.