Weekend Roundup: Apple.com, GarageBand, and old advertisements

By Ricky Buchanan • September 21, 2008

Lots of good bits of accessibility news this weekend. This is my way of catching up, as I’ve got a virus or something so individual articles for all these things just isn’t happening at the moment.

Firstly Apple’s own accessibility website has been completely overhauled. This has been a long time coming, and it’s great to finally see proper up to date accessibility information about Mac OS X Leopard as well as the new iPhone and iPods. They put a link to ATMac in too, which I’m inordinately pleased about!

Lioncourt.com have two new guides for VoiceOver users who want to get the most out of GarageBand. That makes three GarageBand Guides now:

Remember you’ll need Leopard and iLife ‘08 for the accessibility you need to use GarageBand with VoiceOver.

The Deafmac blog points out to us two old Apple advertisements which feature the use of ASL - American Sign Language. The first one is about schools using the internet:

I don’t know what date the advertisement was made but apparently the little girl who uses ASL in the advertisement is MarloJo Lovitch and is currently a Gallaudet Univesity student.

The other advertisement seems a bit newer and features Marlee Matlin, a well known Deaf actress:

I like the use of silence in this one - there’s only the occasional soft sound of typing and it’s very effective.

So what’s new on your side of the world?

- Ricky Buchanan

Categories: Deaf, Information, Supporters, Users, VoiceOver, Weekend Round-Up, Windows Users
Tags: apple advertisements, apple website, garageband with voiceover, round-up post, tv advertisements, youtube

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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