Hello and welcome to this week's Blind Tech Adventures podcast.  We have a lot to cover, starting with Kirt's review of his new Galaxy s22.  Nimer then demos the Twitter web app with Jaws (no, you don't need yet another app on your phone), and we finish with our thoughts on the current state of cane travel-- what works, what could be better, and our different approaches to this well-worn tool we both rely on. In the News: 1.  For those of you who use new Humanware braille displays, the...

Hello and welcome to this week's Blind Tech adventures.  We still see popular misconceptions regarding gmail Standard view accessibility, so today we're exploring Gmail standard view with Jaws.  Nimer also shares his thoughts on guide dogs as he prepares to send an old companion to a new home. In the News: 1.  Sonos is launching a voice assistant for their audio devices called Sonos...

Today's show is fairly packed, starting with accessibility updates from Apple and Google.  Kirt then revisits web apps with jaws to demo Discord, and Nimer shares his experiences with airport travel. In the News: 1.  In case you missed it, here's Nimer's announcement of Android's improved Braille support from last week's Google IO conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Ve29skMr8&t=0s 2.  Apple also announced new accessibility features. These include door detection and voiceover...

the BlindTechAdventurers are joined by Keith and Julie Harrison to discuss an innovative new modality for teaching and learning Braille. At the heart of this is an app called Tonal Braille. We discuss this innovative method, and demo the app. * To download Tonal Braille, check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... We discuss some news articles, including Google I/O, and the introduction of new accessibility features to Android. Next, we demo the new Sound Recorder app in Windows 11...

Hello and welcome to this weeks' Blind Tech Adventures. Departing from our tech exclusive fair lately, Kirt takes us on a walk around his neighborhood and sares some travel tips along the way. Nimer shows us how to set up the Windows Subsystem for Linux, with Kirt sharing some powerful - and somewhat obscure- windows keystrokes during Nimer's inevitable reboots throughout the setup process. In the News: 1.  In case you somehow haven't heard, Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Reports now indicate...

Last Wednesday, Apr 27 2022,Nimer and Kirt sat down with Diego, CEO of Strap.tech in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) webinar. The webinar was open to individuals who had placed pre orders for Ara. Nimer and Kirt asked some tough questions. We also took the opportunity to ask questions from individuals that placed their pre orders. Individuals from the audience were able to ask their questions as well. We learned a lot from this session, and we hope you will, as well. To learn more about Ara, or to...

Hello and welcome to this post-Easter Blind Tech Adventures.  Today we have a lot to share, starting with our channel branding updates. The team behind Ara (strap) also have some updates, especially relevant for people with device pre-orders. Finally Kirt tells us why he decided to buy a Raspberry pie 400, a full computer inside a keyboard. In the News 1.  Freedom Scientific recently released Jaws updates for 2022. I've not yet had the chance to test in detail but improvements include web...

On this episode of the pod, we sat down with a number of accessibility specialists and continued our series on digital accessibility and showcased why it is so important to continually advocate towards making our world truly accessible, from computers and websites to banking apps and touch screen products.

On this week's pod, we were live on ClubHouse with Taylor Arndt from Taylor's Tech Talk discussing WordPress, from how to find an accessible theme, to what plugins you should consider using, and how to go about making your website visually appealing.

On this week's bonus episode, Marco sat down and updated us all on what happened at the latest ClubHouse TownHall event.

On this bonus episode of the pod, Marco and Kirt wrap up the goings on at this year's Apple WWDC conference. Many announcements were made, but was it all just a whole lot of hot air?

On this episode of the pod, Marco demonstrates GoogleKeep, Marco also runs us through using ClubDeck, Kirt demonstrates ClubHouse on his Android phone and in our settings series, Kirt shows off notifications on his iPhone 8.

On this episode, Marco spoke with accessibility specialist and all-round great guy Neil McCullough, who walked our listeners through how to use ClubHouse, and the developers of ClubDeck, Pierre Stanislas and Philippe Breuils.

On this episode of the pod, we compare the web apps of Dropbox and Google Drive, Nimer demonstrates Spotify on the web and Marco runs us through sound settings on a Samsung S21 Ultra.

On this episode of the pod, the team sits down with Carrie from LiveAccessible to discuss technology and innovation from the past, present, and future, both from low vision and blindness perspectives, and Nimer demonstrates YouTube Music.

On this episode of the pod, the team sits down with Michael Curran and Quentin Christensen from NVAccess to learn more about them, and discuss the screen reader landscape, and Nimer demonstrates Google Calendar.

On this week's episode of the pod, Nimer continues our series on web apps by demonstrating how accessible Facebook and Twitter are on Android, iOS and Windows and in our Did You Know section, we continue our series on phone settings by exploring the bluetooth settings on both Android and iOS.

On this episode of the pod, Nimer shows us how accessible Google Sheets actually is, we demo Google Chat on both Android and on the web, and we continue our series on Android and iPhone settings by concentrating on WiFi settings.

On this week's episode, Nimer continues our current series on web apps accessibility by running through Google Docs, and in our Did You Know Section, we continue exploring settings on both Android and iPhone.

On episode 79 of the pod, we chat with the team from Hable about their brand new keyboard now out in Europe, and we commence our latest series, this time concentrating on web apps and accessibility, with Nimer kicking things off with Gmail.

On this week's pod, Clare McLaughlin, an artist from Ireland, joined us to discuss her project, Seen – Unseen and we interviewed Brendan Lewis from RealThing AI to talk about their new offering RealSAM.

On this episode, Neill from Dolphin Access responds to our critique of their screenreader, Thomas reviews how accessible Netflix is on both Android and iPhone and Kirt demonstrates voiceover command settings, a powerful feature for iPhone customization.

On this week's episode of the pod, Nimer delves further into Talkback 9.1, providing many helpful tips and tricks, Nimer also demonstrates Network Manager Pro and Kirt shows off a great new voice feature using Talkback 9.1.

On this episode of the pod, Nimer demonstrated Dolphin ScreenReader, Marco ran through how to use Samsung Health and Kirt showed off hotspot, plus we welcome a special guest.