http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/assistive-technology-and-apple Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 21:18:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/assistive-technology-and-apple#post-279425 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:40:30 +0000 Nitro 279425@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I would not give up on the idea of finding a software solution via the Google search engine. I&#39;m sure some app writer, if the poor things have managed to run the incredibly odd gauntlet Apple forces them to run, has done something assisstive by now. </p> <p>I can&#39;t prove it to myself, or you, right now as I&#39;m nowhere near my macs but I could&#39;ve sworn that there&#39;s assisstive tech if you go in through System Preferences. If it&#39;s text magnifcation you need, this can usually be achieved by a hotkey combo of Ctrl and +...or cmd and +...and Apple does have text to speech features built in if you need that...heck i&#39;ve used that many times to read my emails to me so i could zombie around trying to make coffee...</p> <p>is there a particular assistance you need? be that specific in your google search and good luck &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.stephenfry.com/bb-content/plugins//bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/assistive-technology-and-apple#post-279367 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:49:53 +0000 pamfran2 279367@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Why oh why does it seem that AT producers can&#39;t seem to make software etc that works on my beloved iMac, iPad and iPhone? Is it the Apple OS? I had a demo of Eyegaze yesterday and it would suit me down to the ground to communicate and operate my environmental controls (tv etc) just using my eyes but, it doesn&#39;t work on Mac!!!</p> <p>PLEASE Apple can you do something for us Mac loving people with disabilities?? </p>