December 2007

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Simple: The Computer Tells You The Time

By Ricky Buchanan on December 2, 2007

This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Mac Accessibility 101

It’s easy for anybody to loose track of time when they’re using a computer, and if you have a neurological or attention problem then you may get even more lost than most. Here’s how to get your computer to regularly announce the time.

Posted in Information, Neurologically Impaired, Simple, Text to Speech, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged computer voice, mac voice, speak text, speech synthesizer, text speak, Text to Speech, tts, voice output, voices for mac | 5 Responses

Leopaque

By Ricky Buchanan on December 1, 2007

Note: Since the Leopard 10.5.2 Update this functionality is now built into Leopard so this program should no longer be needed. Leopaque allows users to disable translucency to get an opaque menu bar in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The translucent menu bar in Leopard makes for nice eye-candy unless you have low vision or [...]

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged appearance, free, menu bar | 1 Response

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