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Have you ever wanted to make phone calls on the net using a synthetic computer generated voice? If you’re an AAC user, then this is a great way to communicate with people remotely. This article will show you how to set up Wiretap Anywhere to send your speech voice to Skype’s internet phone system.

If you use Skype and MacSpeech Dictate Paul has found a way to make hands-free phone calls with a little help from some simple AppleScript.

Lon has a great new article about some of the issues around remote service delivery and telepractice for special education providers. Using some of the features built into OS X Leopard - iChat’s new screen sharing as well as the video conferencing - on broadband internet connections means the up-front costs of providing remote services are greatly reduced.

The new Microsoft Messenger for Mac OS X is inaccessible to VoiceOver users and it seems like there’s no good reason. We suggest you try alternatives, where they exist.

What’s out there in terms of IRC clients for VoiceOver users?

Here’s a quick-and-easy OS X 10.5 iChat tip (with a bonus OS X 10.4 variant thrown in, along with a little iTunes/iChat tip) for your Thursday morning. iChat, being the good citizen that it is, pops up a dialog box whenever someone initiates a chat with you; you can use the dialog to accept or [...]

For those who use Skype and have trouble answering calls quickly enough, you can set Skype to answer for you automatically.
To do this, open the preferences (from the Skype menu) and select the “Calls” button from the top row. Check the box for “Auto-answer Calls”. To return to answering calls manually, just uncheck the same [...]