Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 11, 2016 - Volume 547
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
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1) This post to the Fred's Head Blog summarizes Apple's accessibility
resources:
http://www.fredshead.info/2016/02/apple-accessibility-web-resources-and.
html
2) CAVI will offer short courses on Windows 10 and Skype during March
2016:
http://wiki.cucat.org/index.php?n=Main.Shortschedule ;
3) Speaking of Windows 10, Users of NVDA who have the App Essentials
add-on installed can now hear Cortana's text responses read
automatically:
http://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/wintenApps.en.html ;
4) And speaking of CAVI, they continue to develop their Audio Editing
Fundamentals course, and there's still time to enroll for this term:
http://wiki.cucat.org/index.php?n=Main.AudioEditingFundamentals ;
5) You can buy a $39 tutorial on Amazon Echo aimed at users of adaptive
technology:
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6) The MacCessibility team gives us Podcas
#101:
http://maccessibility.net/2016/02/07/mrtp-101-consistently-and-competent
ly-squashed/
7) In this edition of the RNIB Insight Radio podcast we learn about a
blind YouTub
sensation:
http://www.insightradio.co.uk/podcast-episode.html?category=morning_mix&;
name=2016-01-12_tommy_edison_tx_podcast.mp3#.VrvacNAjYed
8) The website for HIMS has been revamped, and works much better on
mobile devices:
https://hims-inc.com/ ;
9) You might want to explore the Age and Accessibility blog from IBM
Accessibility:
http://ageandability.com/ ;
10) Hear about United in Stride, an organization to match blind runners
with sighted guides, on Eyes on Success #1607:
http://eyesonsuccess.net ;
11) Perkins School brings us, "Q&A: Everything You Need to Know About
Unified Englis
Braille:"
http://www.perkins.org/stories/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-un
ified-english-braille
12) This post purports to contain "iPhone Features: Hidden iOS Tricks
That Are Actually Hidden:"
http://bgr.com/2016/01/22/iphone-features-ios-9-hidden-ios/ ;
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