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As with all lists of links this one is somewhat arbitrary, but with assistive technology (AT) for OS X being a rather specialised area I think that I have included most of what is both relevant and up to date. If you have suggestions or corrections, please contact me.

Sections on this page are:

Announcements and Information

Mac pour Tous (Mac for all, in French) - Resources, information, contacts, solutions, and technologies.

Lioncourt.com - For blind and vision impaired users.

Deafmac.org - For D/deaf and hearing impaired OS X users.

AssistiveGaming - Information about games and how assistive tech users can play OS X games.

Maccessible - Covers issues related to print disabilities, mostly blindness and dyslexia. A new blog.

The Crass Pip - Covers multiple topics sometimes including Mac OS X accessibility.

Podcasts and Vodcasts

Screenless Switchers - Audio podcast by blind OS X users.

Accessibility Tips OS X - Vodcast (Video Podcast) about accessibility for students with disabilities.

Users in Control: A Fresh Perspective on Accessibility - Podcast in Audio and accessible PDF formats profiling assistive technology users with different disabilities and how they use computers.

Exploring the Frontiers of Assistive Technology - Vodcast showing how people use Mac-based assistive technology to communicate, express their creativity, play games and make so much more out of life.

BlindWorld Blog and Podcast - Often talk about Mac-related topics, including tutorials, in their podcasts.

Windows 2 Apples - Podcast about various Microsoft and Apple related topics which touches on accessibility issues, especially those around speech recognition. Transcripts for each podcast are also available.

Support

Apple Universal Access Support Forum for Tiger (OS X 10.4)

Apple Universal Access Support Forum for Leopard (OS X 10.5)

MacVisionaries Mailing List - For blind and vision impaired OS X users. Mostly focussed on VoiceOver users but some discussion about other vision-related assistive technology. Archives of the MacVisionaries list are also available.

Mac Voiceover Mailing List - For blind and vision impaired OS X users.

MacVoice Mailing List - For speech recognition on OS X.

Music/Audio Related

MacMusic Disability-related Support Forum

MacVisionaries ProAudio Mailing List

References

Apple - Accessibility

Apple - Accessibility in Education

VoiceOver compatiblity list - Maintained by Greg Kearney.

For Developers

Accessibility-Dev Mailing List - Support for developers wishing to use Apple’s Accessibility APIs.

MacVisionaries Developer Mailing List - Support on all topics related to software development for Mac OS X by the blind.

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