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Leopard Guides: User Experience
User experience encompasses the visual appearance, interactive behavior, and assistive capabilities of software. Mac OS X provides a number of user interface technologies, such as speech recognition and speech synthesis, that can enhance the user experience for people with disabilities.
A guided introduction for developers who want to make their applications accessible to all users.  
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Mac OS X Technology Overview (HTML) (PDF)
Introduces Mac OS X and its technologies.
 2008-10-15
Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HTML) (PDF)
Introduces the Mac OS X user experience and explains how to design an application for Aqua.
 2008-06-09
Accessibility Overview (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use the accessibility features built into Mac OS X.
 2008-03-11
Accessibility Programming Guidelines for Carbon (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to access-enable Carbon applications.
 2007-02-08
Accessibility Programming Guidelines for Cocoa (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how Cocoa applications make their user interface available to external assistive applications.
 2007-02-08
Speech (HTML) (PDF)
Explains Cocoa's interfaces to the speech synthesis and speech recognition technologies.
 2003-08-08