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As expected, at their press gathering this morning Apple announced their new product: the iPad. So what’s an iPad? Will the iPad be accessible, and what will it mean for accessibility in general?

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.

Cheap Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch software on the 20th of January to benefit Haiti. Accessible Podcast/iTunes U Guidelines are now really accessible. Is Proloquo2Go the best app ever? And it’s AT blog carnival time soon - get your submissions in today.

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.

Now that KeyStrokes and LayoutKitchen work together, I have adapted the stardard KeyStrokes keyboards to work more the way I want them to. Here’s how to do the same for yourself.

MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Mail.app with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2.1.

How much stuff is there on your computer that you would be heartbroken to loose? How long would it take you to get your computer going again if the hard drive stopped working? Can you afford to loose that stuff and spend that long with no functioning computer?

The following list is not all inclusive, but it does provide information on the most commonly held Mac myths in the VI community. I hope you find this list informative and helpful.