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For those who use Apple products to create content such as web pages, videos, etc., and wish to make sure their content is accessible as possible to users with disabilities.

A weekend round-up post for all those small bits and pieces that aren’t big enough to merit their own post, or don’t quite fit into ATMac but are still interesting.

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. [...]

Now that a built-in screen reader and a powerful speech recognition solution are available, what is the next biggest assistive technology feature missing on Mac OS X?

AudialHub can convert audio files (and even the audio inside video files!) in as little as three steps.

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 a [...]

CapScribe is an open-source Mac OS X application to help you add captions and/or audio description to audio and video files.

ATMac needs more writers! Are you interested in contributing? Do you have what it takes?

Sim Daltonism is a color blindness simulator for Mac OS X. It filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result — as seen by a color blind person — in a floating palette.

Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 1.2 speech synthesiser with new voices and a pronunciation editor.

Lon Thornburg from the NoLimits2Life and NoLimits2Learning blogs has started an Assistive Technology Blog Carnival - come and join in the fun!