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Users with cognitive impairments not covered by other categories. This include specific learning disabilities, dyslexia, dyscalculia, autism, attention deficit disorder, memory and concentration problems, and others.

Mindmaps are diagrams used to represent ideas - they use pictures, colours, position on the page and text together. MindNode is a free mindmapping application which is simple to use but does the job extremely well. It is fully keyboard accessible and the developer is interested to receive information about any access problems.

Firefox version 3 has been released for a while now, so a lot of users are exploring its possibilities. One of the great accessibility-related things new to Firefox 3 is full page zoom, where zooming in enlarges not just the text but also the images and the whole layout of the page - so it’s more like magnifying the page than just enlarging the text. I wanted to tweak it to my specific requirements though - here’s how.

MacWorld has released a great new article which has a bunch of productivity tips for those using Leopard. If your disability impacts your computer use then it will take longer for you to get things done, so making sure you’re saving as much time as possible can make a big difference in how much you can do.

AlphaOmega Software’s Function Keys Mapper guides you to set your function keys to launch applications or open specific files or websites.

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a tidbit on ScreenRecycler, an app that allows you to use another Mac’s screen as a second display. In it, I theorized that ScreenRecycler could allow on-screen keyboard and scan panel users to play inaccessible fullscreen games by letting them display the game on their main Mac’s screen [...]

The Mac Tips & Tricks website have a nifty little post up which guides you through how to Print Envelopes From Address Book. Very handy if handwriting isn’t your greatest ability!
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

In the July - August ‘08 issue of MDA’s QUEST Magazine, there is an interesting article in the QuestTech section about Orlando Valle, a young man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and the specialized digital photography equipment he uses for a middle school digital media course. Of particular interest is the motorized pan & tilt mount [...]

Today AssistiveWare released KeyStrokes 4.1, an update to their on-screen keyboard application for those with physical impairments and graphic tablet and touch screen users:
Version 4.1 is now Universal Binary, offers enhanced compatibility with Spaces, and on Leopard provides automatic layout switching when the user changes the keyboard layout in the Mac OS X Input menu. [...]

Awhile back, Mac OS X Hints (via MacWorld online) posted an awesome article on how to get the most out of Leopard’s built-in screen sharing: 
First, here’s a potentially easier way to share the screens of other Macs on your network. First, realize that the screen sharing feature is just an application. It resides in /System/Library/CoreServices, [...]

As part of their Summer of Mac Gems series, MacWorld online profiles ScreenRecycler 1.16:
Wish your Mac had another display so you could spread out your workspace? Most Macs support multiple displays, but for those that don’t—or if you don’t want to go out and buy another monitor—ScreenRecycler 1.16 lets you use another Mac as your [...]