It has come to our attention that there are new terms for Apple’s Non disclosure agreement or NDA this year. It appears that we are able to discuss what users will find when they update to Mac OS X and iOS 8. In the future, we will be posting articles about what new accessibility features… Continue Reading Changes to Apple’s 2014 NDA: What this means for this site.
On Monday June 2, 2014, Apple Inc started its WWDC 2014 week. WWDC stands for the World Wide Developer Convention, and it happens about this time each year. Apple usually uses this time to talk about new software that will be released in the fall with betas for developers released that day. This year, Apple… Continue Reading A summary of WWDC 2014
Since iAccessibility has moved to Squarespace, I thought it would be a good idea to post a review on the Squarespace apps. Since we have several new authors who will be posting to this blog, I wanted to start with the Squarespace blog app. Function The Squarespace blog app lets users of Squarespace write blog… Continue Reading The Squarespace Blog App and VoiceOver
in an effort to provide our users with the best app experience, VisualBraille will be the next app to be updated to iOS 7. With this change we will see a few new features, and the biggest will be the addition of notes. Notes VisualBraille will now have a basic note taking feature that will… Continue Reading VisualBraille Updates and Notes
Google’s social network Google+ is a nice way to keep up with friends, family acquaintances and more in what are called circles. A Google+ user can add their people they wish to keep in contact with or people who they would like to share information with to certain circles, and only selected circles will see… Continue Reading Google+ for iOS
There are thousands of choices on the iOS App Store for reading books. For individuals with disabilities, there was no way to utilize the free resources of the National Library Services Talking Book Program on Mainstream devices like the iPhone or iPad until now. Recently, NLS released the BARD Mobile app for iOS which allows… Continue Reading Bard Mobile for iOS
Hello everyone, I apologize for not writing any new articles on the iAccessibility Report, but a lot is going on, and I think that everyone will like to hear what is coming up. Future of this blog. The iAccessibility Report has always been hosted here at iAccessibility.net, but in the future, users will have to… Continue Reading Changes and New Beginnings.
So now that Fleksy has been released for a few weeks now, I would like to look at the app, and see if it measures up to the hype that surrounded it at #NFB12? How does Fleksy work? Fleksy is a new keyboarding app for iOS that allows blind or visually impaired users to type… Continue Reading Fleksy – Does Fleksy change the way the blind uses the iPhone?
Yesterday, I was able to get a look at the new keyboarding technology from Fleksy. Fleksy is going to be a new app for iOS that lets the user type text without having to use exact placement fingers on the screen. All you have to do is tap where you think letters should be and… Continue Reading Fleksy – A new way of using a keyboard on mobile devices!
I have always felt that the iPad would be a perfect device for Web Design, but I have not yet found the perfect web editor to accomplish this. I have tried Markup, Gusto and others to accomplish this but none of these completely made a great experience as some editors on the Mac or PC… Continue Reading Diet Coda
One limitation of any application that uses custom fonts is that that font cannot be copied or used in any other app on an iOS device. Due to some research, this limitation can be overcome. Now, Braille can be copied between apps on all iOS devices. Look for the AppBraille technology In all future releases… Continue Reading AppBraille
With the iPad 2 and the New iPad, many hardware and gadget vendors have decided to build all new accessories to enhance the use of our favorite tablet. One device that I have recently purchased is the new iConvert Scanner from Brookstone. This device lets a user connect their iPad to a document feed scanner… Continue Reading Brookstone iConvert Scanner for iPad 2 and the new iPad