iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

This chapter introduces OS X and key features such as the desktop, Finder, Dock, and Spotlight. You’ll learn how to use menus, buttons, and accessibility features that make it easier to use your Mac, as well as how to work with apps and windows.

Text is found in many places, such as in windows and dialogs, in content areas like webpages and help files, and in documents. This chapter explains how to use VoiceOver to read, select, and edit text.

VoiceOver provides numerous ways to navigate content and text. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to navigate content such as tables and text, and how to use navigation features such as Quick Nav, the Item Chooser, and hot spots, among others.

This chapter provides information about using VoiceOver to browse and navigate webpages effectively using two different navigation modes, tables, images, frames, and web spots, as well as the VoiceOver Web Item rotor.

OS X comes with many accessible apps that you can use with VoiceOver, such as Mail, Messages, and iTunes. This chapter provides information about using some of the OS X apps.

This chapter explains how to use features that enhance collaboration between users. You’ll learn about the caption panel, the braille panel, the screen curtain, and tiling visuals. You’ll also learn how to mute speech and sound effects.

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.

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.

This chapter explains how you can control your Mac using VoiceOver gestures on a Multi-Touch trackpad.

Appendix A. This chapter lists VoiceOver commands and gestures, organized into categories.

Appendix B. This chapter lists the options on each VoiceOver Utility pane and explains how to use the options.

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.

For folks still wishing to use the Kindle free 3g/wifi or now the Kindle Keyboard, this orientation for using the Kindle with speech output may help.

In this demo, I take you through most of the functionality of the updated and free Fleksy app (word prediction keyboard) for iOS using VoiceOver. Adding words to the custom dictionary and advanced punctuation are not covered in this demo.

Demo of using Narrator with the on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT. Also show you how to change between standard and touch typing.

In this demo, I give you a taste of what it is like to navigate and dictate with speech recognition on the Surface RT with Narrator.

In this demo, I describe the Microsoft Surface RT, and go through some Narrator keyboard and gesture commands in navigating Windows 8, Internet Explorer, and accessing the Charms window.

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..

This demo takes you through using, upgrading, inputting Braille, tweeting, and copying text.

In this demo, show you how to pair, and navigate the Apple TV using a bluetooth keyboard which became possible with this new update of the Apple TV software.

This demo shows you how to use the builtin dictionary in iOS using VoiceOver by highlighting a word with the pinch open gesture, and using the Define option under Edit in the rotor. iBooks is used for the demo, but works in other apps including Mail, Safari etc.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

This demo goes through what is in the box, main features, physical description, navigating the iPod touch with VoiceOver, locking orientation, Siri/dictation.

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

In this demo, I put the Ford Sync in my Ford Focus 2012 through some of its paces: never thought I'd be doing a podcast on a car.

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.

This demo takes you through the major features of the iPhone 5, physical description, a run through of some VoiceOver gestures, and a bit on Siri.

This demo takes you through the features of the iPad mini, physical description, using an iPad verses a smaller iOS device, and a bit about Siri.

This demo takes you through adding another Apple ID and shows you how to switch Apple IDS to access TV or Movie content etc on either Apple ID.

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

How to hide icons on the Apple TV home screen to save navigating thorugh icons you don't use.

This demo describes how to change the rate of speech for Talkback, the language of the synthesizer, and where to find the Talkback settings/tutorial.

In this demo, moving icons on the Apple TV home screen is demonstrated, as well as the new Accessibility menu enabling the toggling of VoiceOver/captioning.

A look at some of the major features in iOS 6, some changes to the Settings panel, and an overview of some of the new accessibility features.