Category: Hearing Impaired
For users who have problems hearing, but still have some useful hearing ability.
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MovieCaptioner 4.2
Use Mac OS X’s MovieCaptioner to quickly and efficiently produce captions, subtitles, and transcripts for your iPod, iPad, DVD and Flash film and video segments. MovieCaptioner is now upgraded to version 4.2 and can also read YouTube’s captioning format so you can let YouTube try to auto-caption your video and then correct and re-upload the results.
Back To The Accessible Mac: Accessibility Implications From Apple’s 20 October Event’
There was a special Apple event in Cupertino on the 20th of October entitled “Back To The Mac”. We were treated to a plethora of Mac-related announcements which have plenty of fantastic accessibility implications. I’m going to briefly run down what each announcement was, and why it matters for Mac accessibility.
How Do I Use ZVRS With My iPhone or iPod Touch?
This video describes how to set up your iPhone 4 or iPod Touch with the ZVRS app and use it to call the ZVRS ASL video relay service in America.
Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project
The Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles Project captions Apple’s tutorial vdeos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.
Give Yourself Backups For Christmas
What would you do if you lost all your files because your computer’s hard drive failed? For less than $100 and with no technical knowledge you can have a backup of all the files on your computer, and you’ll never need to worry about hard drives failing and losing all your files.
Create Accessible Podcast And iTunes U Content
The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH has written guidelines for content providers who would like to create iTunes U media and general podcast media which is accessible for those people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or visually impaired.
Accessibility Changes Lives
This is the first post in a series about assistive technology. I want to show you why accessibility, adaptive technology, assistive technology, and other disability-friendly practices matter more than you think.
The Accessible iPhone 3GS
The iPhone 3GS has many new accessibility features, including a fully working screen reader. So what experiences are people having with this phone so far, and which applications are accessible?
Auslan Tutor for the iPhone/iPod touch
The RIDBC Auslan Tutor is a portable video-based teaching resource for Auslan – Australian Sign Language. It’s been developed by Australia’s Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children specifically for use with the iPhone and iPod touch.
Sign Smith ASL – Animated dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
Sign Smith ASL is a tutorial and phrase book for American Sign Languane (ASL) from VDCom3D. The program is available in three versions, containing animated phrase books of between 20 and 1200 signs.
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