Post Thumbnail of Apple's FaceTime support - not Deaf-friendly for now.

Apple has announced a new FaceTime support line that can be called at 1-888-FACETIME. Unfortunately, this solution requires you to talk on the line to a hearing person, then they will do FaceTime with you, and of course they can’t be expected to sign back to you.
I …

25 June 2010  Accessibility,FaceTime,iPhone
Post Thumbnail of Having problems with FaceTime incoming calls? We have a solution.

I have had issues with receiving FaceTime calls, and thought it was a firewall issue or ISP issue. It was frustrating, only to stumble upon a completely different solution to my issue.
I was browsing the MacRumors forum trying to find a solution, and came across this post.
Like the original …

25 June 2010  Accessibility,FaceTime,iPhone
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 Link of the Day for June 23rd

These are the Links of the Day for June 23rd

FaceTime and the iPod Touch – First, FaceTime is just plain awesome. Second, can you imagine a FaceTime enabled iPodTouch as a cheap portable VP? :D

23 June 2010  Links of the Day
Post Thumbnail of Quick thoughts on the iPhone 4

[I've been quiet here because my wife just had our fourth child and first son! :D So things have been a bit mad @ home!]
I was lucky enough to get my iPhone 4 upgrade today. I wanted to share a couple of thoughts with you about it. First …

23 June 2010  Featured
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 WWDC is here, chat with us all day!

I’m sure all of you feel like this is Christmas morning…waiting for the parents to wake up and let us go ahead and open the presents, hmm? ;-) Join us for the fun!
First, here’s a quick round-up of what’s buzzing right now:
People have been re-tweeting on Twitter a …

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 Links of the Day for June 3rd

These are the Links of the Day for June 3rd

Modulr unveils extensible iPad case system – if you liked K'nex or Lego/Technic, you'll probably want this funky iPad case system.
Google mobile search now includes iPhone apps – Neat!
HTC’s Droid Incredible, Sprint EVO 45 make Droid great – This is what …

3 June 2010  Links of the Day
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