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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.
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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.
MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. I’ve put together two documents to help you learn and remember all the global commands found in Dictate version 1.2.1.
OS X only offers US English text-to-speech voices, and they are not of a very high quality. Leopard’s “Alex” voice is a great improvement, but even that voice is jarring and mechanical to listen to for more than a few minutes and only offers American English. So what are your alternatives for text to speech?
This video shows one way to create new commands for MacSpeech Dictate - using the “Menu Item” command type. The article also discusses using the “Press the key combo” command to accomplish things which have no menu entry.
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.