Category: Users
Users are the people with a disability. Most posts will have the users as the intended audience!
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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?
New MacSpeech Scribe For Transcription
One of the major things that the MacSpeech Dictate family has been lacking is the ability to take pre-recorded files and convert them to text. Not any more: MacSpeech Scribe will do just that for you, with up to 99% accuracy.
Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks, Head Pointers, and Styluses
When Apple announced the iPad the first thing I thought was “how, as a quadriplegic with limited use of my arms, will I be able to use this device?”. Fortunately I immediately already had a pretty good idea on how this could be accomplished being that I’ve been an iPod Touch 2G user for almost 18 months. Ultimately the iPad is probably going to be able to do quite a bit more than the iPod Touch but the iPod Touch is still essentially the iPad’s “little brother”. So I thought I’d share the methods I use to access my iPod Touch in hopes that these ideas may be useful for people with physical disabilities hoping to get an iPad.
Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project
The Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles Project captions Apple’s tutorial vdeos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.
Dictation For Your iPhone/iPod Touch
In December, Nuance surprised everybody by releasing two apps for the iPhone – Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search. Those apps are now also available for iPod Touch users and they’re free for a limited time.
Make Your Own Macspeech Dictate Commands
This video shows one way to create new commands for MacSpeech Dictate – using the “Menu Item” command type. The article also discusses using the “Press the key combo” command to accomplish things which have no menu entry.
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