In this podcast, Steve Sawczyn discusses the Direct Touch Typing input mode first introduced in iOS 8 and shows how it works with VoiceOver.
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In this podcast, AnonyMouse walks us through the process of setting up your iPhone for use with Apple Pay, the recently launched mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets you make payments using your iPhone 6 or 6 Plus.
Note: at the time of posting, this service is only available to US users.
In this podcast, Harrison introduces us to Grail to the Thief, a new interactive audio adventure for Mac, Windows and Linux.
The game has been designed with the needs of the blind and vision impaired in mind, but can be enjoyed by everyone. It stars Hank Krang, a dirty thief from the near future who recently had a self-aware time machine called the Time Excursion Digital…
In this podcast, Alex Hall takes a look at the Chess application which comes preloaded on all Mac computers. This is a companion to his guide to the Chess app.
You can use the Chess application to play chess against the computer or another person, or watch the computer play against itself. You can choose the level of difficulty for each game, get hints from the computer, and make moves using spoken…
In this podcast, Crayton gives us a walk-through and demonstration of QCast, a podcast manager and player for Mac OS X.
QCast gives you an accessible and intuitive interface to subscribe and listen to your favorite podcasts. It’s features include:
- Listen to thousands of podcasts from all over the internet, right from your desktop.
- Automatically receive new episodes as they are posted.
- Search for new podcasts to listen to
- Rewind, fast forward and…
In this podcast, Khalfan Bin Dhaher gives us a demonstration of Inquisitor's Heartbeat for iOS, an audio game that catapults the player right into the 1300s at the height of the brutal Inquisition.
Accused of heresy for being in possession of a forbidden book, Nicholas Eymerich, the game’s main character is imprisoned in the dungeon of a castle: he must escape from his cell and retrieve the precious book that has been stolen from him, before it is taken to the monastery…
In the first of a planned series of podcasts, Alex Hall introduces us to programming with Xcode by creating a new project, logging a line of code, checking that log, and carrying out some basic debugging.
If you are unfamiliar with Xcode, it is an integrated development environment containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for OS X and iOS.
The text guides mentioned by Alex in this podcast can be found on the AppleVis website at…
In this podcast, Scott Howell and Keith Watson sit down to talk about the popular Mac application, Keyboard Maestro.
Scott and Keith discuss the giant steps taken by the developer to make the latest version more accessible with VoiceOver, what Keyboard Maestro does, and how you can use it to automate tasks on your Mac.
There’s no easy way to describe Keyboard Maestro, but essentially it allows you to take existing…
- Unused caches
- Unused logs
- Old email attachments
- …
This app is a free download in the US App Store, and is only usable by eligible patrons of the National Library Services for the Blind…
- Display of the charge state in the Dock: This is useful if you cannot or do not like to use the display…
In this podcast, BlindEducator introduces us to Podcast File
In this podcast, Holly gives us a demonstration of Robo-E, a newly-released iOS game that has the title character in charge of cleaning up the galaxy from toxic waste.
To do this, he needs your help to guide him through hundreds of levels, all of which are fully accessible with VoiceOver.
Holly shows us just the first 2 of these levels. If you want to do…
In this podcast, David Woodbridge gives us a demonstration of ChangeReaction, Draconis Entertainment's classic audio puzzle game which is now available on OS X with new audio, three entirely different modes of game play and a host of other new features.
Primarily intended for blind and visually impaired gamers, ChangeReaction is played via the keyboard and…