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For users who have no useful hearing ability.

Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study - Chicago

Context Sensing & Assistive Technology Study - Chicago

The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology at Northwestern University is working on a project to build and evaluate new original technologies for users with disabilities. They are currently recruiting subjects with a variety of impairments (cognitive, sensory or motor) from the Chicago area.

Weekend Roundup: Apple.com, GarageBand, and old advertisements

Weekend Roundup: Apple.com, GarageBand, and old advertisements

A round-up of bits and pieces we haven’t had time for, including Apple’s own accessibility website being updated, new guides for VoiceOver users mastering GarageBand, and some old Apple advertisements featuring American sign language.

Accessible iTunes, Accessible iPod - Apple's September Special Event

Accessible iTunes, Accessible iPod - Apple’s September Special Event

Apple put on a September Special Event yesterday, announcing iTunes 8, the iPod Nano 4G and other smaller upgrades to software and to the iPod Touch. These announcements, especially that of iTunes version 8 now with full accessibility for Windows and OS X Mac, are fantastastic for users with a disability and reaffirm Apple’s commitment to accessibility.

Growl - Useful notifications that you control

Growl - Useful notifications that you control

There’s a new version of the Growl notification system available. What is Growl anyway, and why might you want to use it?

MovCaptioner 2.0

MovCaptioner 2.0

MovCaptioner keeps repeating a segment of the movie until you are done typing what you hear. Just hit the Return key and it will save your caption and automatically advance to the next few seconds of the movie, allowing you to zip through your captioning tasks in no time flat.
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CapScribe

CapScribe

CapScribe is an open-source Mac OS X application to help you add captions and/or audio description to audio and video files.

iPhone text accessibility plan for customers with disabilities

iPhone text accessibility plan for customers with disabilities

AT&T and Apple introduce new iPhone text accessibility plan (TAP) for customers with disabilities. This is a great step forward, but do they ever reject application for the TAP and would that leave users saddled with a contract for a plan they can’t use?

Search for captioned movies with iTunes

Search for captioned movies with iTunes

If you’re in the USA, the iTunes Store now allows you to search for movies with Closed Captions available.

Captioned Movies In The USA iTunes Store

Captioned Movies In The USA iTunes Store

The deafmac.org blog has posted a list of captioned movies currently available in the iTunes Store, by which I assume they mean the USA iTunes Store. Only twenty one captioned movies so far, but hopefully the number will grow quickly.
Does anybody have news about iTunes stores in other countries and whether captioned movies are available?
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Simple: Alert Sounds You Can See

Simple: Alert Sounds You Can See

Mac OS X makes an alert “beep” sound if you try to press a key that’s not recognised or do various other things that confuse it. Here’s how to set it up so you will get a visual screen flash instead of the audio beep.