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Post Thumbnail of FaceTime may have some firewall issues . . .

Unsurprisingly, there are may be some firewall issues cropping up with FaceTime. You may want to check your firewall settings, or talk to your ISP if you are having issues with missed FaceTime calls. This is not necessarily Apple’s fault – it’s the firewall and ISP issue. Apple …

Post Thumbnail of Safari 5 now available, shows captions in HTML5 video

Late yesterday, Apple announced Safari 5, the latest version of their web browser. Many improvements were made to it, speeding it up, adding Instapaper-like Safari Reader capabilities, and so forth. Accessibility took a step forward, because Apple tweaked the HTML5 video tag support to enable captions of HTML5 …

8 June 2010  Accessibility,Software
Post Thumbnail of FaceTime video calling on the iPhone 4

The “one more thing” from Steve Jobs was something we all expected – video calling on the iPhone 4. What was not expected was how it put American Sign Language users in the spotlight, at the very end of the FaceTime video.

At the same time Jobs announced FaceTime, he …

Post Thumbnail of AT&T iPhone TAP Plans updated!

Earlier this week, we briefly mentioned the news that AT&T has changed their data plans for the iPad and iPhone. One of our readers, Josh, contacted AT&T to see if this would also affect the Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) that many of use for our iPhones because we have …

5 June 2010  Accessibility,iPhone
Post Thumbnail of Netflix Streaming adds Subtitles

Whoa. Netflix just announced yesterday that they have enabled captions/subtitles for about 100 titles via their streaming service. Netflix says more are coming. Hearsay is that it also works on the iPad via the Netflix app. We’ll have to investigate. Now we have an alternative …

16 April 2010  Accessibility,Media,Software
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