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For users who have no useful hearing ability.

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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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.

A few days ago, Apple added a page to their website detailing 300+ New Features In Leopard which was divided into various categories. There are 17 features listed under the Universal Access Features category,
mostly relevant to users of VoiceOver such as support for refreshable braille displays, the new “Alex” voice, new VoiceOver features, and so [...]

A new version of iTunes was released yesterday, and the notes about new features includes this:
You can now also play purchased videos with closed captioning (when available).
Does anyone know how much iTunes Store material is captioned? Does it also play existing video with captions like QuickTime Player? I don’t use iTunes for video myself and [...]

Some utilities for dealing with subtitles or captions:
SubCleaner
Blurb:
SubCleaner can:

remove unnecessary characters & formatting errors
limit the number of chars per line & the number of lines per subtitle
convert MicroDVD, SubViewer, SubViewer 2.0, and TMPlayer subtitle formats to SubRip (.srt) format.

SubSync
Blurb:
You have encoded your favorite series, a friend sends you the subtitles, but the filenames don’t match, [...]

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. You don’t need to be [...]

Access Firefox presents and showcases some the accessibility tools and features that are available for the free Firefox Web browser.

Blurb:
CAPS Warn is a Preference Pane that provides: A) on-screen indications of when the Caps Lock, Shift, Function (Fn), Control, Option, or Command keys are pressed (or stuck on by Sticky Keys) or B) warnings that: 1) you have turned on the CAPS Lock and/or 2) you have typed a specified number [...]

Merge your subtitle files with your movies. Then you can easily watch subtitled movies in iTunes, Front Row or on your Apple TV.
Website: Submerge
ATMac comments: This is a great example of software that is written for a non-disability use - watching movies in a language that the user doesn’t know - but which has an [...]