ATMac

G’day, and welcome to ATMac!

This website aims to be of interest to all OS X users, educators, other assistive technology supporters, content developers and programmers with an interest in disability.

Some of the topics we cover are:

• Accessibility news about OS X itself
• New and updated assistive technology (AT) software
• AT hardware that works with your Mac
• Getting the most from your existing software in terms of accessibility
• Hints, tips and tutorials
• Using OS X to produce accessible content
• Coding accessible software

Much of the existing accessibility information available for OS X users and developers centres around the VoiceOver spoken interface for blind users. ATMac will include relevant information about VoiceOver, but other areas of accessibility will be covered in detail also. Some examples are: users who need alternative input devices, deaf users, using the Mac to control other devices (environmental control or ECU), and anything else we can think of!

ATMac was started by Ricky Buchanan, who writes most of the articles. Joe Barnick and Paul Nasch are regular contributors, and several other people write less frequent guest articles. We are actively looking for other regular contributors as well as people interested in submitting occasional articles or guest posts.

Ricky started ATMac because she uses a bunch of assistive technology to access her Mac, and couldn’t find any sites that dealt with all types of assistive technology for OS X. It seems important to have a central place where people can investigate all kinds of assistive technology (AT) for the Mac - both what’s provided by Apple and what’s provided by third party developers.

If something moves you to write an article I suggest that you contact us first just to make sure nobody’s already started writing it. Any other feedback is welcome also.

Everyone is encouraged to comment on existing posts to add experiences, ideas, or anything else related to the post. You don’t have to have an account to make a comment, and if you don’t feel comfortable leaving your name then that’s fine too - anonymous comments are also very much welcome.

Also, we’d be pleased if you would add ATMac to your Technorati favorites.

- The ATMac team