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Growl – Useful notifications that you control

By Ricky Buchanan on June 10, 2008

Growl – Useful notifications that you control

There’s a new version of the Growl notification system available. What is Growl anyway, and why might you want to use it?

Posted in Deaf, Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Other Impairment, Text to Speech, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged audio alert, free, free download, growl notifications, growl style for low vision, opensource, system alerts, system messages, visual alert | 3 Responses

Simple: Alert Sounds You Can See

By Ricky Buchanan on October 28, 2007

Simple: Alert Sounds You Can See
This entry is part 4 of 11 in the series Mac Accessibility 101

Mac OS X makes an alert “beep” sound if you try to press a key that’s not recognised or do various other things that confuse it. Here’s how to set it up so you will get a visual screen flash instead of the audio beep.

Posted in Deaf, Information, Simple, Users | Tagged visual alert | Leave a response

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