ATMac

These articles are aimed at specific impairments or assistive technology needs not covered by the other categories.

Did you know that there is a very simple way to get your Mac to speak pretty much any piece of text?

SloMotionX is a utility program that can be used to slow down games - or other programs - to make them more accessible to OS X users with disabilities.

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

Interactive fiction games are interesting and accessible to users with a wide range of assistive technology needs.

ChatterBlocker plays soft sounds designed to reduce distraction from nearby conversations or other noise. It may be especially useful for those who are easily distracted or startled, and people with tinnitus or hyperacousis.

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.

Limit your attention to one application—any application—at any time, bring other apps up quickly if you need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly.
Let’s rediscover how to focus, and get back to thinking.
I usually just enlarge apps manually to fill the whole screen to cut down on the visual clutter, but [...]

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 really simple daemon program that lets you use return and/or enter to open icons in the Finder.
The “usual” way to open a file or start a program in the Finder is to double-click with the mouse, or press ⌘o. Pressing “enter” will let you edit the name of the file, not open it. Many [...]

AssistiveWare(R) / ConvenienceWare(tm) today announced the release of GhostReader(tm) text-to-speech software for Mac OS X.