It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at DeskConnect.
The first 3 names drawn from our virtual hat will each win a US$25 iTunes Gift Card. The next 5 people drawn will each win a promo code for Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple. This iOS app usually sells for US$4.99…
It's the week of the fifth birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the wonderful developers behind 1Password.
Enter to win one of 5 copies of 1Password for Mac OS X. 1Password usually sells for $49.99.
1Password is a password…
It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at Slinkyware.
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 promo codes for VisionAssist. This iOS app usually sells for US$5.99.
"VisionAssist is a very impressive app that, over time, could make portable…
It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great developer behind Spoken Games.
Enter for a chance to win one of 10 promo codes for Spoken21. This iOS game usually sells for US$0.99.
Spoken21 is an audio blackjack game with casino, shuffling, and…
It's the week of the 5th birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at MPaja.
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 promo codes for Viskey. This iOS app usually costs US$4.99.
Viskey is the Visible Keyboard
With large text preview and good contrast, Viskey…
It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at A Sharp.
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 promo codes for King of Dragon Pass. This iOS game usually sells for US$9.99.
Create your own epic saga of conflict, mythology, and community! This acclaimed game of…
It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at Prizmo.
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 promo codes for the Mac app Prizmo 3 - Scanning, OCR & Speech. This application usually sells for US$49.99.
Prizmo 3 is…
It’s the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and this giveaway comes from the great people at Mobience.
Enter for a chance to save up to US$100 when you purchase a RiVO (Remote Interface to VoiceOver) Bluetooth Keyboard from Mobience. The RiVO keyboard costs US$129 plus US$15 shipping. The coupons will be valid for 1 month.
The first 10 people selected will each receive a US$100 discount coupon. The next 20 will receive…
As a thank you to the people in the AppleVis community for their longstanding support of the app, the wonderful developers behind MBraille are reducing the price of its in-app purchases during the week of our 5th birthday.
As a thank you to the people in the AppleVis community who have provided great feedback and helped to make their app even better, the wonderful developers behind visor - low vision magnifier are making the app available for free during the week of our 5th birthday.
Visor is a magnifying glass for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Enlarge…
It's the week of the 5th Birthday of AppleVis, and to start off our celebrations we have a tremendous giveaway brought to us jointly by the great people at BlindSquare and AfterShokz.
If ever there was a pairing of hardware and software that made sense for the vision-impaired, it would be the combination of the BlindSquare navigation app and an Aftershokz bone-conduction headset. BlindSquare "makes the world…
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Apple has today launched a special App Store collection of accessibility apps beneficial to users with a variety of disabilities.
For blind and low vision users, Apple has included the following apps in the new Accessibility collection:
We have now sent emails to everybody who won one of our giveaway prizes. Congratulations to you all!
If you haven’t received an email, please accept our commiserations. However, you should probably first check your ‘Junk’ folder, just in case any email has been wrongly filed.
For one final time, we would like to publicly thank all of the wonderful people who helped to make this such a great event by donating prizes. We really couldn’t have hoped…
Today, for the first time since 2012, Apple released updated versions of the iPod line of products. This includes updates to the Touch, Shuffle, and Nano, all of which now come in more colors than before. The …
Nine months after its launch in the United States, Apple Pay has today finally arrived in the UK. So, geek and early-adopter that I am, I found an excuse first thing this morning to visit my local convenience store to find out if they are among the reported 250,000 UK locations which will support Apple Pay from launch.
The good news is that they are. Even better news is that setting up and using Apple Pay on my Apple Watch really couldn’t have been any easier.
The first step…
As first reported by Blind Bargains, a member of Apple's Accessibility Team will be presenting a session at this year's American Council of the Blind (ACB) Conference and Convention.
The session, entitled "Accessibility and Apple," will take place on July 7, 2015, from 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. According to a statement provided to AppleVis, the session will focus on how the accessibility…
Welcome to the June 2015 edition of AppleVis Unlimited, our monthly series which aims to highlight what’s new and noteworthy in the accessible app landscape. Below, you’ll find a recap of the best content posted to AppleVis - from new app entries, to app updates, to podcasts and blogs. For easier navigation, the major sections of this post are at heading level 3, and each individual item is at heading level 4.
Following the release of Apple Music and iOS 8.4, Apple has today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 to the public.
According to Apple's release notes via Mac Rumors, OS X 10.10.4 includes the following bug fixes:
The OS X Yosemite v10.10.4 update improves the stability, compatibility…
Apple has today released iOS 8.4, bringing with it Apple’s new music streaming service and the usual "under the hood" fixes and enhancements.
The focus for this release has clearly been on making sure that everything is in place for the introduction of Apple Music and Beats 1. Consequently, we were not surprised to hear from Apple that it includes no accessibility-related changes or fixes.
What you will find in this update…
We are pleased to announce the launch of the AppleVis Apple Watch App Directory.
Posts to the site and on social media suggest that the number of people in our community who own an Apple Watch increases daily, so we are excited to now offer everyone the opportunity to share information about the accessibility of Apple Watch apps.
Submitting and browsing app entries is almost identical to our existing iOS and Mac App Directories. The easiest way to access the Apple Watch App…