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Our latest episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast is a special edition. Join some of our Knights of the Round Table Podcast as we informally discuss our initial thoughts and exploration from iPad launch day. This will be the first in a series of podcasts exploring the newest member of Apple’s family of accessible products.

In episode #8 of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, we introduce our newest contributor, M.J. Phoenix. Our knights of the Round Table Podcast recap and discuss recent Mac-cessibility news stories, including iBooks accessibility, Adobe’s announcement for Flash and Flex accessibility on the Mac, and the recent update to Frotz for iPhone, which provided substantial accessibility enhancements. The bulk of the show is given over to a discussion of screen reader scripting, its pros and cons, and why it is not discussed widely among VoiceOver users. In a follow up show, we will be discussing this topic further with Window-Eyes script writer Jeff Bishop.

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In the seventh episode of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, knights Cara Quinn, Eric Troup, Darcy Burnard, Holly Anderson, Steve Sawczyn, and Josh de Lioncourt discuss Apple’s big event to introduce the iPad slate computing device, its accessibility, speculation on how VoiceOver may differ from the iPhone, and what we think it means for the future.

In this special edition episode of the Mac-cessibility Podcast, we interview Slau Halatyn who spearheaded the ProTools Petition, which requested that Digidesign implement Apple’s accessibility standards into its ProTools product, an application for professional-level audio production.

Slau had a chance to visit Digidesign in San Francisco, and got to experience first hand the tremendous progress being made toward ProTools accessibility with VoiceOver. We discuss his experiences with Digidesign, the developer behind ProTools access, the progress being made, and what we can expect from ProTools in the future.

In the latest installment of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, "Coo Coo for CocoaTouch!", our knights of the round table discuss the recent updates to Mac OS X, the iPhone OS, and iTunes, as well as the iPod touch, the AFB iPhone review, the NFB’s "second look" at VoiceOver, Josh’s cursor tracking experiment on the Mac, and much more.

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In this special joint episode of the Screenless Switchers and Mac-cessibility Round Table podcasts, our knights discuss the Apple media event on 9/9/09, just after it ended, including VoiceOver on the new iPod Touch, the new iPod models, and iPhone OS 3.1. (We’ll discuss the accessibility changes in the new iPhone OS in depth on a future episode.)

In This joint episode of the Screenless Switchers and Maccessibility Podcast we primarily discuss Snow Leopard, the new version of the Mac Operating System. We also discuss the maccessibility.net adobe petition

In the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast #5 - "Now Available in Natural Flavors", our knights of the round table Darcy Burnard, Holly Anderson, Steve Sawczyn, Cara Quinn, and Josh de Lioncourt discuss the recent launch of the Mac-cessibility Network, review the recent minor updates to the Mac OS X and iPhone OS’s, get Steve’s thoughts on his new iPhone 3GS, and explore the pros and cons to MobileMe versus free alternatives.

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In episode #4 of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast, knights Darcy Burnard, Holly Anderson, Cara Quinn, and Josh de Lioncourt discuss our impressions of the iPhone 3GS after a few weeks, how VoiceOver for the iPhone has been accepted by the visually impaired community, third-party applications for the iPhone, what Apple has revealed about gestures in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Safari 4.0.2, the National Federation for the Blind’s reaction to criticism of their VoiceOver review, and more.

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In this special edition episode, the knights of the Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast gather to discuss the launch weekend of the newly accessible iPhone 3GS, give our thoughts on VoiceOver for the iPhone, and much more. Stay tuned at the end for a particularly substantial blooper reel as an added bonus! We were all a little giddy over the iPhone.

This episode features knights Holly Anderson, Darcy Burnard, Josh de Lioncourt, Cara Quinn, Steve Sawczyn, and Eric Troup.