Resources

Past ATMac posts can be accessed in several ways:

Archives by date will show you the posts arranged in date order.
Category listings will let you scan all posts in a particular category.
The tag cloud lets you see all the topics used in the blog and pick which ones to browse.
The poll archive will show you all the polls we’ve run, and people’s responses.

Series run by ATMac:

Mac Accessibility 101 is for absolute beginners, and shows you OS X’s built in accessibility features step by step, with lots of screen shots for assistance.
EBook Resources series includes posts relating to reading ebooks, electronic texts, on Mac OS X or separate devices such as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Speech-To-Text Compilation puts together articles about the speech-to-text and dictation tools available for OS X and their use.
Accesibility Changes lives is a new series for personal stories about accessibility and assistive technology and the profound way it can change people’s lives.

Aside from our own archives, these are the other resources available here:

Free Downloads of cheat sheets, applications, and more.
Headlines from some particularly relevant assistive technology for OS X sites.
Links to other websites, mailing lists, and chat groups relevant to the topics.
Bookmarks recently saved by ATMac at Delicious.com.
LayoutKitchen Resources including tutorials and free panels you can download for KeyStrokes, Proloquo, and SwitchXS

If you have other resources you think would work well here, please contact me and I’ll see about adding them.

- Ricky

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OneThingToday: Focus On What’s Important

OneThingToday looks like a great task manager to help you focus on what’s important today. Once you’ve used the calendar view to input your tasks, switch to the “Today” view to get a single box (optionally transparent) which floats on top of your workspace, constantly reminding you of what you’re working on.

Free PDF To Word Converter For OS X

A PDF to Word converter will only work on text-based PDFs, not image-based ones, but it’s very useful if there is a PDF that you need to convert back to a document format so you can edit it. AnyBizSoft is giving away free licenses via their Facebook page until August 8, 2010.

Apple Announces Magic Trackpad

Amongst updates to the iMac series of computers, Apple yesterday announced an external bluetooth trackpad. This works exactly like the MacBook’s built-in multi-touch trackpad but has a working area of approximately 4.3 by 4.3 inches (11cm by 11cm). A full set of gestures, including the VoiceOver “trackpad as screen” gesture control are available.

Digit-Eyes uses iPhone + Printer to label things

Digit-Eyes uses your printer to print barcode labels which you can then associate with text or audio recordings. To read the labels back, you photograph the labels with your iPhone camera and then the iPhone will read the text or replay the audio for you.

iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch AAC Apps Rundown

Jane Farrall has constructed a great table listing all the important features about all the known assistive/adaptive communication (AAC) applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. She’s actively updating the table in response to feedback, this is a great resource for those looking for information about AAC out there.

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.

SloMotionX 1.0

SloMotionX is a utility program that can be used to slow down games - or other programs - to make them more accessible to OS X users with disabilities.

Doing Math on a Mac

Doing math can be a big problem for students who can’t write or work with rulers and protractors and compasses. It’s hard to type math problems in a regular word processor, and it’s impossible to work out “protractor and ruler” type problems. Here are some programs which can help students do this type of maths on a computer

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.

Accessibility Changes Lives

This is the first post in a series about assistive technology. I want to show you why accessibility, adaptive technology, assistive technology, and other disability-friendly practices matter more than you think.

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