Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 25: Welcome Back to the Present

It's hard to believe that we have arrived at the end of another year. This month, the Triple-click Home team takes a look at the top Apple stories of 2013. Also, Lisa Salinger brings us a review of the Dropbox app for iOS.

This Year in Apple News

One year, four departed execs, and a lot to be determined for Apple

So, what is Apple's next big thing going to be?

Insiders "now confident" Apple will launch lower-priced, lightweight iPhone as early as June

Apple beefs up iCloud, Apple ID security with two-step verification

Jony Ive Leaves His Mark As Skeuomorphism Concept Vanishes From One App

Apple announces WWDC 2013 details, promises new iOS and OSX builds

Tim Cook issues an apology to Apple's Chinese customers

Apple reveals details of 50 billionth App Store download

SeroTalk Podcast 153 Discusses the Accessibility of the Kindle App

WWDC 2013, A Lot of Announcements | MacForTheBlind

Apple posts OS X Mavericks preview page

Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

Voice Dream Interview by Alena Roberts

An App For All Creatures Great and Small — Zoomed In

Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

Apple's cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

Blind Bargains: A Review of the BARD Mobile App

Mailbag

Hello,

This is for the Triple Click Home team.

Perhaps you guys can cover this in the mail bag for the next podcast.

For those of you that are using Mail in standard view, with organize by conversation

enabled, in messages that contain original messages part of a reply, and it says

"see more from sender”. When you activate the link with Control+Option+Space, have

you guys found Voice Over does not do anything when you press the up and down arrow

keys after expanding the rest of the conversation?

Thank you,

Ali Moosa

Hello there!

As always, I was looking forward to the new episode, and, as always, you did not

disappoint me. It was a pleasure to listen to it! :)

• I have got very little problems with TouchID on my new 5S. Actually, when I first

set it up, I didn|t have much time to listen to all the instructions and saved one

finger print with three different fingers / right thumb and index finger when holding

iPhone in left hand and left thumb when holding iPhone in right hand. this worked

although I saved it as one finger print.

I did delete it in the meantime and saved the three digits in three finger prints.

;)

• A few days ago, you retweeted a review of Open Office - was it a CNet article_

I think it was.

Has anybody tested Open Office for its accessibility recently? I remember that this

wasn’t too good a while back. Have there been improvements? I am in the middle of

writing my PhD and don’t have much time to play around with office suites. It was

time-consuming and therefore annoying enough that I had to convert a few work-in-progress

documents from RTF to docx. Aaargh!

• quite a large number of people are looking forward to getting RTF back in Pages.

Me too! However, is there a risk that the navigability of tables in Pages is going

to go again, at least in RTF format?

• One last question for now to you and your listeners, a question for which I have

not yet got an answer from Apple nor from an Apple accessibility mailing list in

which I am active:

For links in emails and on websites we can adjust in the VoiceOver settings how they

are announced. That’s fine. Nonetheless, when there is a link in an email and I arrow-key

my way into it, VoiceOver says: “web url detected” - with a voice as if she was breathing

through a helium balloon. There must be a separate setting for this as the verbosity

settings in the VoiceOver Utility don’t seem to have an effect on this phenomenon.

any ideas?

That’s it from me.