Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, December 8, 2016 - Volume 588
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
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1) A useful new book comes from Jackie Brown of the British Computer
Association of the Blind. Braille on display tells you about the
features found in most of today's popular Braille devices, and offers
the author's opinion on their pros and cons. It is available for $35 in
various electronic formats:
http://mosen.org/brailleondisplay/
2) Microsoft is taking automatic picture recognition a step further in
an online demo which recognizes and describes images. It's called
CaptionBot:
http://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=16240
3) CAVI will offer a "Music Composition with Reaper" course next
semester. The course costs $150 for those paying out of pocket. A
knowledge of tracks, items, folders, effects and the ability to
successfully save and render a project in reaper are prerequisites:
http://wiki.cucat.org/pmwiki.php/Main/MusicCompositionWithReaper
4A) You can read here about Microsoft's accessibility plans for Office
365:
https://blogs.office.com/2016/12/02/accessibility-in-office-365-enabling
-greater-digital-inclusion/
4B) And here, for a post saying some of the same things, but detailing
planned improvements to Narrator and Window
10:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/accessibility/2016/12/02/making-microso
ft-products-more-accessible-what-to-expect-in-2017/
5A) Identifi is another object-recognition app (iOS only at present) to
add to our portfolio. Amazing what we can do today that we couldn't
even three years ago!
http://www.fredshead.info/2016/12/identifi-object-recognition-for.html
5B) Meanwhile, Envision has released ELI, an iOS app apparently
destined to emulate the capabilities of the Pen Friend. The user
purchases special labels from the company, then records or re-records
messages of any length to identify th
object:
http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/introducing-envisio
n-eli-personal-assistant-visually-impaired-help
6A) This article is called "Amazon Echo As An Accessibilit
Support:"
https://luisperezonline.com/2016/12/05/amazon-echo-as-an-accessibility-s
upport/
6B) Speaking of the Echo, you'll be able to hear it compared and
contrasted with Google Home on Tek Talk for GMT 13 Dec at the special
time of 00:30
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2
7) This page details the current state of accessibility of LibreOffice,
one of the free Office alternatives:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/accessibility/
8) As they have in previous years, AFB offers its "Gift Ideas for
Friends and Family Members Who Are Blind or Visuall
Impaired:"
http://www.afb.org/blog/afb-blog/gift-ideas-for-friends-and-family-membe
rs-who-are-blind-or-visually-impaired/12
9) CNET presents "21 Shortcuts for Safari You Need to Know:"
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/shortcuts-for-safari-you-need-to-know/
10) This talk by "Blind Scooter Guy" tells his story and gives his
account of how he uses technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjgHtV8Ohw&t=95s
11) This AppleVis guide covers "Sharing Data from a Tex
Message:"
http://www.applevis.com/guides/gps-ios-ipad-iphone-ipod-touch-miscellane
ous-voiceover/sharing-data-text-message
12) This site aims to be a social networking platform to bring the
disabled communit
together:
https://mydisabilitymatters.club/new-site-bring-disability-community-tog
ether/
13) Hear about "Building Electronics Projects," from two of the
participants in the Blind Arduino Project, in Eyes on Success Episode
#1650:
http://www.eyesonsuccess.net/show%20notes/show%20notes%201650.htm
14) I'm sure that within the next couple of days the official version
will be released, but for now, the release candidate of NVDA 2016.4 is
ready. It features improved performance with the Microsoft Edge browser
and the implementation of Browse Mode in Windows 10 Mail, among other
enhancements:
http://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2016-4rc1-released/
15A) Other podcasts include the AT Junkies talking about access to
Google products:
https://audioboom.com/boos/5366828
15B) Blind Bargains Qast #84:
http://blindbargains.com/b/16238
15C) And the Blind Sight podcast, Episode #17:
https://soundcloud.com/theblindsidepodcast/episode17
16) iAccessibility announces a product to make Spotify for the Mac
accessible:
http://iaccessibility.net/index.php/downloads/accessible-spotify/
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