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Snow Leopard’s support for Braille displays is now fantastic, but did you know that you can install uncontracted multilingual braille output for Arabic, Danish, French, German, Greek/Coptic, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and even US Unicode?

Accessible technology has changed Juergen Manthey’s life. Usually, somebody with his disabilities would be expected to exist in a nursing home and watch daytime television which they couldn’t even turn on or off without somebody’s help. Instead, Juergen is really living.

There’s a new upgrade for MacSpeech Dictate. MacHeist is giving away six pieces of free software, no strings attached. ATMac is now selling Take Control accessible ebooks. Maccessibility has been reporting on Apple updates. And we have a creative solution to a MacBook trackpad problem.

Marie-France Bru has written an excellent set of tutorials aimed at switch users who are new to Mac OS X, even new to computers, but who are willing to learn to use a computer so they can communicate. These excellent tutorials introduce the user to OS X and the Mac computer, as well as to the SwitchXS switch access program.

An overview of the types of speech-to-text software that are available for Mac OS X. Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, lets you talk to the computer and have the computer react appropriately.

One feature missing from the still-new MacSpeech Dictate program is the ability to control the mouse. This addition won’t let you control the movement of the mouse, but we can teach you how to use your voice for mouse clicks. For those who have the ability to move the mouse, this could make the difference between a usable computer system and an unusable computer system.

There are lots of very simple things which can improve the accessibility of iTunes for those with low vision and reading impairments. This tutorial will take you through them step by step.

MacSpeech have released a major paid upgrade for Dictate users to MacSpeech Dictate 1.5, as well as a new product Dictate Medical for those using MacSpeech Dictate in medical and health-related fields.