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Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses

When Apple announced the iPad the first thing I thought was “how, as a quadriplegic with limited use of my arms, will I be able to use this device?”. Fortunately I immediately already had a pretty good idea on how this could be accomplished being that I’ve been an iPod Touch 2G user for almost 18 months. Ultimately the iPad is probably going to be able to do quite a bit more than the iPod Touch but the iPod Touch is still essentially the iPad’s “little brother”. So I thought I’d share the methods I use to access my iPod Touch in hopes that these ideas may be useful for people with physical disabilities hoping to get an iPad.

Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions

As expected, at their press gathering this morning Apple announced their new product: the iPad. So what’s an iPad? Will the iPad be accessible, and what will it mean for accessibility in general?

Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles project

The Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles Project captions Apple’s tutorial vdeos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.

Round-Up: Discount Software, Accessible PDFs, Best App Ever

Cheap Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch software on the 20th of January to benefit Haiti. Accessible Podcast/iTunes U Guidelines are now really accessible. Is Proloquo2Go the best app ever? And it’s AT blog carnival time soon - get your submissions in today.

Dictation For Your iPhone/iPod Touch

In December, Nuance surprised everybody by releasing two apps for the iPhone - Dragon Dictation and Dragon Search. Those apps are now also available for iPod Touch users and they’re free for a limited time.

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.

iPhone Voice Commands Cheat Sheet

The iPhone doesn’t have a lot of voice control commands, but like most computer programs it’s very picky about you getting the wording precisely right. We’ve compiled a printable cheat sheet you can store with your iPhone while you’re learning them.

Dictating Well: Principles From A Master

For most people, dictation results in better structured and more creative writing of letters, essays etc. than either handwriting or typing out your own thoughts. Learn the principles of excellent dictation from somebody who’s dictated documents professionally for nearly fifty years.

Speech-to-Text: Dictation software for Mac OS X

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.

Mail.app Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.2.1

MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Mail.app with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2.1.

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