iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

Getting started with VoiceOver and Mountain Lion Chapter 9. Customising VoiceOver

This chapter explains how to customize your VoiceOver environment to best suit your needs. You’ll learn how to customize settings for voices, spoken details, braille displays, pronunciations, and more. You’ll also learn how to reset, export, and import your preferences, as well as use portable preferences and VoiceOver activities.

Getting started with VoiceOver and Mountain Lion Chapter 10. Using Braille Displays

This chapter provides information about using refreshable braille displays, both plug in and Bluetooth, with VoiceOver. This chapter also includes a list of the many types of braille displays VoiceOver supports.

Creating web location links on the Mac desktop

I demo how to drag and drop using VoiceOver from Safari, a web address to become a web location link on your desktop or folder in Finder. This way, you can launch websites from your desktop/Folder, rather than going in to Safari first.

Demonstration of Solo-Dx mp3 audio description track to use in conjunction with associated movies.

In the demo, I explain how the Solo-Dx (www.solo-dx.com) audio description track works, do a demo using the audio track for Hunger Games with the actual movie on my Mac as an example, and give contact details for Solo-Dx. As its an mp3 file, you can play the track on any device, and play the movie on your TV, Apple TV, Mac etc..

Demo of ChangeReaction; self voicing game: from the Mac App Store

A great self-voicing coin stack puzzle style game for the Mac. Also show you how to adjust the rate of the system voice that the game uses.

Demo of SilverDollar: self voicing game: from the Mac App Store

This game is self-voicing and contains 3 games: Start a Brawl, Practise your GunSlinger skills, and play the One-armed Bandit. As it utilises the Mac system voice, I also show you how to change the system voice rate.

switching from a Windows screen reader to the Mac using VoiceOver

In this spoken document, I go through the points that I go through to assist someone in transferring from Windows/Screen reader to the Mac/VoiceOver (re-posted).

My personal history of adaptive technology

This is a spoken document I wrote in 2012 as a quick overview of my experience with using adaptive technology from 1970 to 2012.

A run through of the apps on my Mac that I use with VoiceOver

In this demo, I go through the apps on my Mac that I use with VoiceOver and demo a few of the more interesting fun ones.

Demonstration of iTunes 11 on the Mac using VoiceOver

This demo gives you an overview of the iTunes 11 new interface using VoiceOver.

Demo of the AQ SmartSpeaker - portable AirPlay speaker

This demo takes you through setting up the AQ SmartSpeaker to be used as an AirPlay device, plugging it in to the Pocket daisy player, and setting it up as a wifi hotspot speaker.

Demonstration of the iPod nano 7th generation using VoiceOver

iPod nano 7th gen description, iTunes setup, exploring the nano screens, adjusting accessibility, pairing to BT speaker, playing music/radio/audio books.

Downloading and using the I-Access Mac Downloader for the Vision Australia I-Access online service

Using the Mac downloader with http://i-accessonline.visionaustralia.org library service: membership required.

Accessing and reading daisy books on the Mac with ReadHear Pro using VoiceOver

Transferring a daisy book from the Mac using iTunes to REad2Go daisy app on iOS using VoiceOver

Copying daisy books from the Mac to the Pocket daisy player using VoiceOver

Copying daisy books from the Mac to the Victor Stream daisy player using VoiceOver

New Safari address bar for searching and web address's in Mountain Lion

New Gate Keeper security feature in Mountain Lion (not really that scary after all)

New Notifications Centre in Mountain Lion (for Messages, Reminders, Twitter etc)

New Reminders app for Mountain Lion (sync reminders with your iOS devices)

New Notes app for Mountain lion (share with your iOS devices).

New Messages app in Mountain Lion (no longer in beta)

New Twitter integration In Mountain Lion

New iCloud sharing with Textedit in Mountain Lion

New Apple TV air playing feature in Mountain Lion: send your desktop out to the Apple TV.

New Dictation feature in Mountain Lion (turn on in System preferences, Dictation/text to speech).

New Accessibility panel in Mountain Lion System preferences

New Accessibility option dialog in Mountain Lion (Option+Command+F5)

New change of accessing Spotlight via VoiceOver in Mountain Lion

New sound feature of VoiceOver in Mountain Lion

New features of VoiceOver in Mountain Lion

My family and Apple - How all the accessibility within Apple products comes together.

Just a brief story from me how I and my family uses Apple products from an Accessibility perspective.

Basic demo of navigating within iTunes on the Mac using VoiceOver

Demo of navigating the Source and Item lists, changing Views, accessing search, modifying the Source list, playing options, and device tabs.

Demonstration of using your iOS device as a remote microphone for your Mac using VoiceOver

By running Remote Mic on iOS and Remote Mic Console on Mac, you can monitor what the "remote mic" is picking up. More info at http://www.dolejsky.com/remote-mic/

Demo of the Mac app TypeToPhone to enable your Mac to be a Bluetooth keyboard to your iOS device

TypeToPhone comes in useful when you don't have a dedicated Bluetooth keyboard for use with your iOS device, but you have your Mac handy.

Demonstration of remapping the VoiceOver keys on a Windows UsB keyboard on the Mac

How to remap the Control and Option keys for VoiceOver on a Windows USB keyboard where these keys are not next to each other.

Demonstration of using the Dashboard with VoiceOver on the Mac

Using the Dashboard to access widgets, enable/disable widgets, and a demo of a few widgets

Demonstration of using Single Text on iOS and Mac using VoiceOver to share notes

Sharing notes between your iOS devices and the Mac using Single Text

Demonstration of Chrome using VoiceOver on the Mac to listen to audio described content from SAMN

Listening to audio described content from the SA Mobile Network on the Mac with Chrome using VoiceOver

Demonstration of the Dictabulus app on the iPhone 4s to allow Siri to dictate in to the Mac

Dictating text in to the Mac via Dictabulus running on the iPHone 4s using Siri (with the Dictabulus helper app running on the Mac).

Demo of using Messages (iMessages) beta for the Mac with VoiceOver

Enables sending/receiving iMessages to/from Mac and iOS devices (you'll need Lion 10.73.3 to install Messages beta).

How to setup and use the Personal Hotspot feature on the iPhone using VoiceOver

How to share your iPhone as a wi-fi Hotspot for your Mac.

VoiceOver for the Mac Overview of the navigation options

Navigation options overviewed VO Lock, QuickNav, Trackpad, Numpad, and Keyboard Commanders.

Installing and using the Looktel Money Reader with VoiceOver on the Mac

Using Night Owl (YoruFukurou) Twitter application with VoiceOver on the Mac

Creating and adding items to a Playlist in iTunes on the Mac using VoiceOver

How to use your iPod shuffle or nano as a USB stick 18022010

Using Word Completion Suggestions in Mac OS with VoiceOver

Using Auto Spelling Suggestions in Lion with Voiceover