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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.

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.

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.

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.

We wrote about MovCaptioner before, but there have been significant improvements in both the interface and in the type of captions MovCaptioner can create. The website now lists all these types:

Embedded QuickTime Caption Tracks
SMIL Caption Tracks
Flash Caption Tracks
SubRip SRT and SubViewer SUB Caption Tracks
Spruce STL (imports into DVD Studio Pro)
Adobe Encore Caption Tracks
SAMI Caption Tracks [...]

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!