ttaccessible 1.7.0

v1.7.0 (build 42) — 2026-07-08

This is the stable release that brings everything from the 1.7.0 beta line to everyone. If you were on 1.6.0, here is what has changed.

Highlights

• A brand-new per-user Channel Mixer. Every person in your channel gets their own voice volume, media volume, left/right placement, mute, and solo — all reachable from the keyboard and VoiceOver.
• Sign in with a BearWare account. Use a free bearware.dk login to connect to servers that support it, without creating a separate account on each one.
• A rebuilt, faster, steadier audio engine. Connecting is near-instant again, switching headphones or speakers no longer freezes the sound, and crowded channels stay smooth.

The Channel Mixer

• Each user in the channel has their own strip: voice volume, media volume, stereo placement (pan), mute, and solo.
• Drive it entirely from the keyboard while focused on a person: Up/Down for voice volume, Command+Up/Down for their media volume, Left/Right to move them in the stereo field, and V, P, M, S to hear or reset volume, pan, mute, and solo.
• New: press Command+5 to jump straight to the mixer — it joins the Command+1 to Command+4 area shortcuts as a fifth focus target. (Thanks to Matthew Whitaker for the suggestion.)
• Each person's settings are remembered and come back the next time they join.

Audio

• Switching your output device no longer freezes the sound. Change headphones or speakers while connected and the audio simply follows.
• Connecting is quick again. On Macs with a lot of audio gear, opening a connection used to stall for around 13 seconds while every device was checked — that scan is gone, and it is now baked into every build for good.
• Crowded and high-quality channels stay smooth. Channels using larger audio packets could sound choppy for everyone; the playback path was reworked so it holds up under load.
• Your chosen microphone and output are remembered reliably, surviving unplugging, replugging, and restarts instead of quietly landing on the wrong device.
• Standalone noise reduction. A new Microphone processing setting (Preferences › Audio) lets you pick None, Noise reduction, or Echo cancellation with noise reduction — and it applies live, even mid-transmission.
• You can now hear your own streamed media when you play an audio or video file into a channel.
• Per-user volumes are now kept per server, so volumes set on one server no longer bleed into another. A new setting lets you choose whether these are remembered always, only for the session, or not at all.

Accessibility

• The app is now named tt-Accessible so VoiceOver and speech synthesizers pronounce it correctly.
• Press VoiceOver+Space to join the selected server or channel.
• Sliders and the microphone button now speak their values as you change them — gain, output volume, and the various Preferences sliders.
• Preferences reads more cleanly in VoiceOver: no duplicate labels, each section is a proper heading, scroll areas are named, and Escape closes the window.

Fixes

• BearWare web login connects reliably on servers that respond in slightly non-standard ways.
• An empty nickname now falls back to your default instead of failing to connect.
• The app launches faster.

Thanks

Huge thanks to Rocco Fiorentino, who designed and built the audio rewrite and the Channel Mixer, the accessibility and VoiceOver improvements, and the faster, steadier connecting in this release. Thanks to Matthew Whitaker for the Command+5 suggestion — and to everyone who tested the betas and sent feedback.

Install

tt-Accessible will install this update for you automatically. To install by hand:

1. Download ttaccessible-1.7.0-42.zip below.
2. Unzip and drag ttaccessible.app into your /Applications folder, replacing the previous version.
3. Double-click — no Gatekeeper warning thanks to notarization.

Download

ttaccessible-1.7.0-42.zip