Accessibility in Mac OS

In this section you can find some accessibility resources about Mac OS, the operating system that is developed by Apple and comes installed on every Macintosh model (iMac, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, etc.). Information on how to make mac OS apps accessible will be provided as well.

Resources

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Pico TTS

Vincenzo Rubano
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Initially developed by SVox (a Swiss company acquired in 2011 by Nuance), Pico TTS is a multilingual, open source speech synthesizer that can run many operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Android.

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Tesseract User Manual

Vincenzo Rubano
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As the name implies, this is the User Manual for [Tesseract]({{z ref “tesseract.md” }}), an open source project that provides both an OCR engine (available as a library) and a command line tool that provides all the features a standalone OCR solution should provide.

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Tesseract

Vincenzo Rubano
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Initially developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP), and after by Google, Tesseract is an open source project that provides two different (yet related) things: an OCR engine (called libtesseract), available as a framework; a command line program (called tesseract), that allows performing a complete OCR process leveraging the features provided by the “libtesseract” framework.

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Support Hardware Keyboards in Your App (WWDC 2020)

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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020, you can discover how to support hardware keyboards for your iPadOS and Mac Catalyst apps: you can learn how the so-called “responder chain” works, how to get up and running with common system keyboard shortcuts, use modifier flags with gesture recognizers, and leverage the raw keyboard event API to respond to key down and key up events.

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What's new in Web Accessibility? (WWDC 2022)

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this video from Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2022, you can discover some techniques for building rich, accessible web apps by using custom controls, Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), and the dialog element.

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Add Accessibility to Your Unity

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The Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) is a plugin that allows you to make the interface of your Unity based games accessible to blind and visually impaired players.

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Unity UI Accessibility PluginDocumentation overview

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In this page from the MetalPopGames website, you can find a lot of (very useful!) tutorials on how to use the Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) to make the interface of your Unity based game accessible to blind and visually impaired players.

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Unity UI Accessibility Plugin- Basic Tutorial

Vincenzo Rubano
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In this short video from MetalPopGames, you can learn how to get started making the interface of your [Unity]/https://unity.com) game accessible for blind and visually impaired users by leveraging the Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP).

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Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP)

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The Unity UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP) allows you to make the User Interface (UI) of your Unity based game accessible to blind and visually impaired players on Windows, Android, iOS, Mac and WebGL.

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Accessibility Principles

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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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