Real World Accessibility
Disabled computer users putting assistive technology to work.
Posted 23 Oct 2007, mid-morning.
Tagged with accessibility, apple, assistive technology, gaming, hardware, mac, osx, software, technology.
Apologies, I meant to post about this a few weeks ago. AssistiveWare have made available a series of excellent short videos demonstrating how disabled people are able to use their Mac OS X software solutions to do everything from online shopping to multiplayer gaming.
My favourite example features Mike Phillips, a gamer and freelance technology writer born with SMA. He uses his thumb to operate a Mac running SwitchXS with Swifty and a proximity switch; amazingly, this is enough to allow some serious fragging in WoW and Unreal Tournament.
I was also interested to see the somewhat oldskool Opticon system being used by Anne Robertson (an Apple VoiceOver user) to read her print dictionary.
