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Ovolab Phlink turns your Mac into a powerful answering machine and telephone information center.

Simple Switch Scanning and Voice Output in MS Word 2004 for OS X
Website: Simple Switch Scanning and Voice Output in MS Word 2004 for OS X
ATMac comment: This is a simple and brilliant suggestion - it could very likely be implemented in other applications in a similar way.
It’s in no way a replacement for a full [...]

DockColor provides a simple interface to changing the color of the Mac OS X Leopard “shelf” Dock. With a simple color-picker interface, you can change the color of your Dock quickly and easily. DockColor automatically backs up the original files, and you can easily revert back to the original Dock from within DockColor as well.
I [...]

VisiKey, makers of large print keyboards, have introduced VisiSkin — keyboard skins for Mac and Windows laptops that feature extra large lettering for people who might have trouble seeing the printing on the keyboard. They cost US$24.95 each, and come in sizes designed to fit MacBooks, MacBook Pros and PowerBook G4s.
Each VisiSkin is made [...]

I posted a few days ago about VoiceOver in languages other than English for Leopard. When I realised I couldn’t find a document anywhere explaining what languages VoiceOver was localised in, I emailed Apple with the question. Here’s the response I received last night:
VoiceOver is localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, and [...]

The Lioncourt site for VoiceOver users has a new offering: A Visually Impaired User’s Guide to iCal for Leopard users.
Prior to the new Leopard version of OS X iCal wasn’t accessible to VoiceOver users, but it’s now mostly usable. I expect that Apple will continue to gradually fix the parts that aren’t fully accessible in [...]

Bamboo is a new category of pen tablets that help everyday people convey their ideas more clearly. With the natural feel of pen-on-paper, Bamboo and Bamboo Fun plug into your computer and make it quick and easy for you to get your point across.
Whether you’re preparing a slide presentation or making a unique collage of [...]

The following description has been slighthly edited and put together, with permission, from several emails by Anne Robertson:
To get VoiceOver to work in a non-English language, you need to create a user in that language.
Assuming you already have VoiceOver working in English, you will need to create a second user, log in as that user, [...]

I missed an announcement by Greg Kearney from the start of November - sorry about that. Here’s the announcement:
I have produced VoiceOver Getting Started for Leopard as a DAISY 2.02 and DAISY/NISO 2005 book. This is a full text/full audio book with images and image descriptions.
The voice is Alex, navigation is by chapters, sub-chapters and [...]

With the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Lioncourt.com is starting a new series of short tips to help Voiceover users improve their Mac experience. Not all the tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most tips will be applicable to both Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Website: Lioncourt.com
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