There are a lot of websites and articles that I’ve collected lately and haven’t had time to share with you all, so I’ve designated this weekend “Link Soup Weekend” to give me a chance to do just that.
We have a new MacSpeech Dictate Review from Smoking Apples. This review has lots of screen grabs and a great screencast which shows how difficult dictation itself can be. If you’re thinking about buying MacSpeech Dictate, this is a great video for showing how it works in the real world.
I’ve joined the Assistive Technology Ning social network and information exchange. It says it’s only for people interested in assistive technology for students up to year 12, but most of the same things apply for the rest of us. It looks potentially useful!
There’s a great post On Getting Started at the new Lead Neophyte blog. It’s about working on projects and the “head down, bum up” style of getting stuff accomplished, as my parents would have said!
Lioncourt have written about a Talking Email Keyboard for iPhone which could be very useful for those who have trouble reading the screen while they type.
Teaching All Students is hosting the next AT blog carnival on the very odd topic of “Sabotage“. I’m totally baffled by this topic, despite more than one person’s attempt at explaining it to me. I guess only the cool kids understand it! Get your posts in by the 6th of April to be featured.
There is a brilliant article on the North Temple blog called Accessibility to the Face. It talks about the human face of accessibility and how once we start thinking about it our brains recognise it everywhere we go. This is one of those posts you want to share with everybody who ever failed to understand why AT and accessibility is important.
The Apple Blog has given us Quicksilver: The Guide which has some great resources for Quicksilver users, appropriate to both beginners and advanced users.
Daytime Software has taken up Martin Pilkington’s accessible Mac software challenge, and also points out that accessible websites are a necessary part of the chain. The blog posts has links to sample code that Apple used at WWDC 2006 to demonstrate levels of accessibility too – a recommended read for developers especially.
David Bolter has written about Firefox Accessibility Goals for the next several months, listing OS X accessibility at the top of his list. Interested people, especially those willing to help, can join the Mozilla Accessibility mailing list.
And last, Marco Zehe has wrote a great post on the 20th birthday of the web explaining some of the things in his life that are made accessible by the existence of the internet. Read Happy birthday, world wide web! and think about it.
I hope you’re all travelling well, learning, laughing, and getting up again after you fall down. What links would you like to share? They can be assistive technology related or just something you loved – leave a comment!
- Ricky Buchanan
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