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The Apple Website
Apple has long had a great reputation of making their products accessible to users with restricted capabilities. The Apple site has a lot of wonderful information about the features available in their products.
Apple's Commitment to Accessility
Apple has numerous assistive technology and accessibility features built in to almost all of the wide range of products that they produce and market.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
Resources
The Apple site lists a number of Resources.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/resources/
Third Pary Solutions
The Apple site lists a Third-Party solutions for Mac OS X.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/resources/macosx.html
Apple Accessibilty by Product
Accessibility on the iPad
Built in accessibility features include: VoiceOver, Zoom, display contrast effects, word correction, predictive text entry, external Bluetooth keyboards, audible alerts, headset compatibility, closed captioning, visual alerts, and an accessible iPad User Guide. More information is available at
http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/accessibility.html
Accessibility on the iPhone
Built in accessibility features include: VoiceOver, Zoom, display contrast effects, word correction, predictive text entry, external Bluetooth keyboards, audible alerts, headset compatibility, closed captioning, visual alerts, and an accessible iPad User Guide. More information is available at
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
Accessibility on the iPod
Built in accessibility features include: VoiceOver, Zoom, display contrast effects, word correction, predictive text entry, external Bluetooth keyboards, audible alerts, headset compatibility, closed captioning, visual alerts, and an accessible iPad User Guide. More information is available at
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/itunes/ipodtouch.html
Accessibility in the OS X operating system
The are many built in accessibility features and a number of apps that might benefit persons with disabilities. These assists include:
Visual Enhancements:
VoiceOver, Zoom screen magnification, cursor magnification, display contrast effects, Safari Reader, Safari CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), multiple Finder views, View Options, Dock magnification, Talking Alerts, Talking Clock, Text to Speech. |
| Hearing Enhancements: Closed Captioning, iChat, QuickTime recording, Screen Flash, and mono audio. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/hearing.html |
| Physical and Motor Skills Assists: Slow Keys, Sticky Keys, Alternative Keyboard Layouts, Custom Keyboard Shortcuts, Mouse Keys, Adjustable Mouse and Trackpad Sensitivity, Assignable Mouse Buttons, Multi-Touch Trackpad Gestures, Full Keyboard Navigation, Adjustable Key Repeat and Delay, Assignable Modifier Keys, Inkwell Handwriting Recognition, Onscreen Keyboard, Character Viewer, Automator, and Speech Recognition commands are available in certain menus. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/physical.html |
| Literacy and Learning: Simplified Finder, Spotlight, Assignable Window Background, Dictionary, Thesaurus, automatic word completion, word correction, predictive text entry, Text to Speech, Text to spoken track in iTunes, Calculator for Math and Conversion, Grapher, iChat, and Video Recording. More information is available at... http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/literacylearning.html |
VoiceOver Application Support: page lists applications that are accessible via VoiceOver. |
Websites about Apple/Mac Accessibility and Software
ATMac.org
ATMac provides usable and understandable information about all Apple and Mac products for users with disabilities, chronic illness, or other impairments.
http://atmac.org/
christopherreeve.org
The Paralysis Resource Center at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation has a Guide to the Best Apps for People Living with Paralysis. Apps for the iPhone and the iPad are included in the guide.
http://www.christopherreeve.org/
MacGamesandMore.org
Mac Games and More has a page dedicated to Assistive Technology software for the Mac OS X.
http://www.macgamesandmore.com/assistivetechnologymac.html
Pure Mac
Pure Mac list many software products for the Mac. The Accessibility page offers information on a number of assistive and adpative software programs .
http://www.pure-mac.com/access.html
Special Education Technology
SET in British columbia has some very good Tutorials and Demos for Universal Access Preferences in Mac OS X.
http://www.setbc.org/setbc/access/mac_os_x_access.html
Special Link
Special Link lists many shareware and Freeware software products for the Mac for people with disabilities.
http://www.specialink.com/mac.htm
Third Party Mac AT Software Vendors
AssistiveWare
AssistiveWare makes a number of great adaptive software packages for the Mac. For some ACLab tutorials about a number of the AssistiveWare products go here.
http://www.assistiveware.com/
Nuance
Nuance is the supplier of high quality voice recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking or Windows and MacSpeech Dictate for OS X). For an ACLab tutorial on MacSpeech Dictate go here.
http://www.nuance.com/