2009
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2009 New Year's Eve Gifts
It’s the last day of 2009, and I have some gifts for my wonderful ATMac readers. A LayoutKitchen resources page for KeyStrokes, Proloquo, and SwitchXS users, and five free postcards (real physical postcards!) to you can spread the new year cheer with your friends.
Give Yourself Backups For Christmas
What would you do if you lost all your files because your computer’s hard drive failed? For less than $100 and with no technical knowledge you can have a backup of all the files on your computer, and you’ll never need to worry about hard drives failing and losing all your files.
Jitouch – More Gestures For Your MacBook
Jitouch is an application which adds eight new sets of gestures to the MacBook multi-touch trackpads. New gestures include ones for window management and some specifically for web browsing.
Troll Touch Touchscreens
Troll Touch Components Our proprietary, custom designed and manufactured touch sensitive overlays feature PSR-1 or Pressure Sensitive Resistive touchscreen technology and are mounted on either optically clear acrylic or chemically strengthened glass depending on the particular application. It is our ability to incorporate a very thin layer of this touch sensitive material inside or on [...]
Keyboard Shortcuts For Moving Around
REWRITE TEXT – FROM http://www.macworld.com/article/140788/2009/05/textmovementkeys.html As it turns out, you can still jump around the Google search box – and nearly any other text field in nearly any program on your Mac – using the keyboard. All you need to do is add the Command key to the Up (or Down) Arrow key, and you’ll [...]
Create Accessible Podcast And iTunes U Content
The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH has written guidelines for content providers who would like to create iTunes U media and general podcast media which is accessible for those people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired.
Multilingual Braille Output For Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard’s support for Braille displays is now fantastic, but did you know that you can install uncontracted multilingual braille output for Arabic, Danish, French, German, Greek/Coptic, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and even US Unicode?
Juergen Manthey – Locked-In Syndrome
Accessible technology has changed Juergen Manthey’s life. Usually, somebody with his disabilities would be expected to exist in a nursing home and watch daytime television which they couldn’t even turn on or off without somebody’s help. Instead, Juergen is really living.
Weekend Round-Up: MacSpeech, MacHeist, Taking Control, and more
There’s a new upgrade for MacSpeech Dictate. MacHeist is giving away six pieces of free software, no strings attached. ATMac is now selling Take Control accessible ebooks. Maccessibility has been reporting on Apple updates. And we have a creative solution to a MacBook trackpad problem.
Switch Users' Introduction To OS X
Marie-France Bru has written an excellent set of tutorials aimed at switch users who are new to Mac OS X, even new to computers, but who are willing to learn to use a computer so they can communicate. These excellent tutorials introduce the user to OS X and the Mac computer, as well as to the SwitchXS switch access program.
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