ATMac

For users of ECU - environmental control units. Primarily for those who use their OS X machine for the purposes of environmental control to replace remote controls and perform functions such as turning lights on/off, changing TV channels, and so forth.

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.

Have you ever wanted to make phone calls on the net using a synthetic computer generated voice? If you’re an AAC user, then this is a great way to communicate with people remotely. This article will show you how to set up Wiretap Anywhere to send your speech voice to Skype’s internet phone system.

Ever realised that you can set up your computer so it will do different things depending on whether you are close with your Bluetooth phone, and on what wireless networks are available.

iSoftPhone VoIP software now supports SMS as well as voice calls and also sports tight integration with OS X.

If you use Skype and MacSpeech Dictate Paul has found a way to make hands-free phone calls with a little help from some simple AppleScript.

Xmart Volume listens to the ambient sound level and turns down your headphone volume when there’s a louder-than-average sound outside - like somebody trying to get your attention.

Dialectic - a versatile telephony tool for Macintosh - provides system-wide dialing of phone numbers using Bluetooth mobile phones, landlines, many VoIP services and more. It integrates with leading contact management applications including Marketcircle Daylite, Microsoft Entourage, Now Contact, Palm Desktop, FileMaker Pro & other databases as well as Apple’s iCal and Address Book.

Macworld 911 explores ways to have your computer turn itself on when you want it on.

If your computer already has the assistive technology you need, then accessing things via a computer means you don’t need to deal with yet another set of accessibility aids. So what amazing things might your Mac be able to do?

I have finally finished a long document describing my own assistive technology and technology set up - all the things I could think of that involved my Mac in some way and even some that don’t.