Category: Deaf
For users who have no useful hearing ability.
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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 [...]
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.
Leopard: 17 Universal Access Features or more
Apple says there are 17 new features in Leopard for people with disabilities, but are there really many more?
iTunes 7.4
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 [...]
Subtitle Utilities
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 [...]
MovCaptioner – Make QT Movies Accessible
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
Access Firefox presents and showcases some the accessibility tools and features that are available for the free Firefox Web browser.
CAPS Warn
CAPS Warn is designed for people who type with one hand using Sticky Keys, or for anyone who presses the Caps Lock key frequently by mistake. It provides audio and visual alerts when you have pressed caps lock, shift, Function (Fn), Control, Option, or Command.
Submerge – embed subtitles in movies
Submerge merges your subtitle files with your movies, to allow them to be played and watched with players which are not subtitle-aware.
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