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Use Your Regular Keyboard As A Perkins Braille Keyboard

Use ControllerMate to turn your regular keyboard into a Perkins Braille Keyboard for Grade 1 English Braille input!

Scrolling tricks

Macworld explores advanced applications of scrolling!

Accessible IRC Clients

What’s out there in terms of IRC clients for VoiceOver users?

Using GarageBand with VoiceOver

Using GarageBand with VoiceOver is now possible if you have iLife ‘08 and Leopard - here’s how.

Interactive Fiction Games

Interactive fiction games are interesting and accessible to users with a wide range of assistive technology needs.

Voice Commander

VoiceCommander helps you expand Mac OS X built-in speech recognition technology to control any application.

Input via Morse Code

Use ControllerMate to let you input via morse code with a mouse button!

Making Communication Boards Using PowerPoint and Audacity

Lon Thornburg explains how to make your own communication boards using Audacity with PowerPoint or OpenOffice.

Making the most of SwitchXS

Read about Marie-France Bru’s ultra efficient SwitchXS writing method.

ChatterBlocker blocks background noise so you can concentrate

ChatterBlocker plays soft sounds designed to reduce distraction from nearby conversations or other noise. It may be especially useful for those who are easily distracted or startled, and people with tinnitus or hyperacousis.

Weekend Round-Up: See You In January 2009!

The ATMac team have been working hard all year and now we’re exhausted! We will be taking a break for Christmas and to come up with more great information and articles for you next year. There’ll also be a competition to give away some great software. We’ll be back in January, so don’t forget to check up on us.

AssistiveWare’s Giesbert Nijhuis Launches Apparel Line

I thought I’d pass on the news that MacWorld just published an interesting news item about one of our very own, Giesbert Nijhuis. Giesbert has started selling his own line of T-Shirts under the label, AssistiveWear. Congratulations Giesbert!
You can check out the full article here.
- Paul Natsch

MacSpeech Dictate Global Commands List & Cheat Sheet for 1.2.1

MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. I’ve put together two documents to help you learn and remember all the global commands found in Dictate version 1.2.1.

VoiceOver For Sighted Users

VoiceOver is a screen reader primarily used by blind Mac OS X users, but sighted people also use it for a variety of reasons, either for themselves or to better support a blind user. So, where would one start with learning to use it?

All I Want For Christmas Is Power!

Power’s what assistive technology gives us, really. The power to communicate, to read, to type, to plan, to play, to control things. The power to achieve things that we couldn’t otherwise achieve. Here are some ideas for gifts to empower assistive technology users.

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