Category: Developers
For programmers of Apple software. This category is applicable both to programmers who write software which they wish to make accessible to users with a disability, and programmers who write software specifically designed to help people who have a disability.
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MacSpeech Dictate International: Multi-Language Speech Recognition
Finally, multi-language continuous speech recognition is available for OS X. MacSpeech has released Dictate International, which offers recognition in US and UK English, French, German, and Italian. It has been implied that Spanish will soon be added also.
Weekend Round-Up: Link Soup
There are a lot of websites and articles that I’ve collected lately and haven’t had time to share with you all, so I’ve designated this weekend “Link Soup Weekend” to give me a chance to do just that.
M Cubed Pledges Software Accessibility
Martin Pilkington of M Cubed Software has made a blog post entitled The Accessible Mac. In the post he discusses the challenges and difficulties involved in making OS X software accessible. Martin pledges that all M Cubed’s software will be fully accessible by the end of 2009, challenging fellow developers to do the same.
Ghotit Seeks Mac OS X Developer
Ghotit is a spelling checker especially designed for those with spelling and language issues, especially dyslexia. It will pick up, for example, the mistakes in a sentence like “I will meat you their tomorrow” where a regular spell checker would miss these as each individual word is correctly spelled.
iPhone Accessibility By Tim O'Brien
Tim O’Brien’s blog is about photography and accessibility. He recently got an iPhone and had trouble finding information about its accessibility to the blind, so he’s doing something constructive about it.
Laptop Orchestras – Making Music With Unusual Inputs
In the Apple Pro Profiles section there’s a great article about a group called the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) who use MacBooks and a variety of unusual input techniques and devices to make computer music.
Speech-to-Text: Dictation software for Mac OS X
An overview of the types of speech-to-text software that are available for Mac OS X. Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, lets you talk to the computer and have the computer react appropriately.
Firefox and VoiceOver – the Mozilla perspective
The Firefox web browser offers an interesting alternative to Safari, but at the moment it’s not compatible with Apple’s accessibility API. VoiceOver users can’t use it, programs like the Dictionary and the services menu programs don’t work within it, and third party enhancements like Quicksilver can’t access it. Aaron Leventhal from the accessibility team at Mozilla explains some of the reasons the incompatibility hasn’t been fixed yet, and may take a long time to be fixed at all.
Weekend Round-Up
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.
What's missing on the Mac?
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?
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