Category: Users
Users are the people with a disability. Most posts will have the users as the intended audience!
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ShapeWriter – iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad Typing Without Lifting Your Finger
ShapeWriter lets you write on the iPhone and iPod Touch by tracing your finger over the keys you want on the keyboard, and using smart prediction to do the rest. It also features automatic spacing and capitalisation, and the ability to add new words and acronyms just by typing them once. You can write in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish.
PinPoint 3 – Never Lose Your Mouse Again
PinPoint 3 is a program which puts a great animated or static graphic around your mouse pointer when you want it, so you can always locate the cursor. Great for people whose eyesight isn’t the best, or who have large or multiple screens.
iPad Assistive Technology/Disability Round-Up
There have been a lot of articles on a lot of websites about accessibility and disability and assistive technology as they relate to the iPad since the specifications were first released. Now that people obtain the iPads to use themselves, the pace of articles is still increasing.
Fluid – Create Site Specific Browsers
Have you ever wished that you could have one copy of Safari for Facebook, and a different copy for your “serious” work? With Fluid, you can! Fluid is a nifty utility which lets you create site-specific web browsers (SSBs). These are web browsers which only work on one (or a few) specific websites. If you click on a link for any other website, it will open in your regular browser.
Ventrilo For Communication For The Chronically Ill
Ventrilo is a free speech-based chat server that you can set up on your home network so that people can communicate using speech between different computers in the same house. It doesn’t access the internet to work, so even if your net connection is broken Ventrilo will still work.
Control Your Cable Box With Your Mac On The Cheap!
If you’re a digital cable TV subscriber in the United States you may have noticed the FireWire port on the back of your cable box. The most common assumption about this port is that it’s something for service technicians only but it’s actually something you can use to control your cable box, if you ask the right questions!
The Ultimate MacSpeech Dictate 1.5 Global Commands List
MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands all at once can be very intimidating. I’ve put together a full list of all the known commands for MacSpeech Dictate 1.5.*, ordered by their function, to help you learn and remember them.
Morse Code For Computer Control: TandemMaster
The TandemMaster Morse-2-USB interface is a fantastic device which converts morse code entered by two switches into keyboard presses and mouse movements. It gives the user complete control of a computer, as much as any regular keyboard/mouse user would have and can be used on any computer, with no drivers or software needed to be installed on the computer itself.
SpeakingFox: Tell Firefox To Talk
Firefox generally doesn’t let you use a lot of OS X’s accessibility features, including the services menu and some of OS X’s regular keyboard shortcuts. Setting your Mac up to speak highlighted text when you press a key also doesn’t work in Firefox. The Firefox extension SpeakingFox fills this gap with some nifty context menu options to fill this gap.
Nuance Buys MacSpeech: What Now?
It’s been announced that the MacSpeech company has been purchased by Nuance. Nuance are the company behind the Windows product “Dragon NaturallySpeaking” and other recent Dragon products for iPod Touch and iPhone. So what does this mean for MacSpeech Dictate and the other MacSpeech products? What would you like to happen?
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