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Following simple guidelines, developers can take advantage of built-in Mac OS X features that make the user interface of their applications available to external assistive applications. An assistive application interacts with an application to allow persons with disabilities to use it, such as allowing a person with a visual impairment to use an application to convert menu items and button labels into speech and then perform actions by verbal command.
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Title Topic Date
  Force Feedback (HTML)
Describes the public interfaces to the Force Feedback implementation in Mac OS X, including support for plug-ins.
User Experience, Device Drivers 2003-05-13  
  Speech Recognition Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for recognizing and accepting spoken input.
Speech Technologies, Carbon, User Experience 2003-02-01  
  Speech Synthesis Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for converting text into synthesized speech.
Speech Technologies, Carbon, User Experience 2003-02-01  
  Accessibility (HTML)
Explains how Cocoa applications make their user interface available to external assistive applications.
Cocoa 2002-11-12  
  Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (HTML) (PDF)
Introduces the Mac OS X user experience and explains how to design an application for Aqua.
User Experience 2002-06-01  
  Making Carbon Applications Accessible to Users With Disabilities (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to make Carbon applications accessibility aware.
Carbon, User Experience 2002-06-01  

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