Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 4, 2016 - Volume 546
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
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1) Hear about how one member of the Freedom Scientific Training
Department put together a synchronized Christmas light show using
hardware and software controlled by JAWS, on the latest edition of
FSCast:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/FSCast/FullListing#Episode120
2) This author suggests 75 Twitter feeds to follow, in the areas of
career, job search, productivity and self-betterment, personal finance,
business an
news:
http://mashable.com/2016/02/02/twitter-accounts-your-career/?utm_cid=mas
h-com-Tw-main-link#TaC5rJM8eOqK
3) Here is a handy listing of the Top 100 Picture Books with Image
Descriptions in Bookshare:
http://www.thinkinclusive.us/image-descriptions-bookshare/
4) Here is an updated listing of the "Basic Screen Reader Commands for
Accessibilit
Testing:"
https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/01/basic-screen-reader-commands-
for-accessibility-testing/
5) Check out these "Tips for Using the TurboTax Website and iOS App as
a Blin
User:"
http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/tips-using-turbotax
-website-and-ios-app-blind-user
6) The monthly AppleVis Unlimited post, "What's New in Accessible Apps
for January 2016" has been out since the first hours o
February:
http://www.applevis.com/blog/advocacy-apple-apple-tv-ios-ios-apps-ipad-m
ac-apps-mac-os-x-news-opinion-rumors/applevis
7) Some subscriber to The Blind Perspective Newsletter can win a free
copy of the KNFBReader App for their preferred type of phone:
http://www.theblindperspective.com/
8) Here is an interview with the owner of Accessibility Partners, about
"Leveling the Playin
Field:"
http://reidmymind.com/reid-my-mind-radio-accessibility-partners-leveling
-the-playing-field/
9) Thanks to the Microsoft Accessibility Blog we learn about an
important Accessibility Update for Windows 1
Mail:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/archive/2016/02/01/accessibility-u
pdate-for-windows-10-mail.aspx
10) Eyes on Success turns its attention to Audio Exercise Programs in
episode #1606:
http://eyesonsuccess.net
11) The next PEAT talk (courtesy of the Partnership on Employment and
Accessible Technology) will take place on Wednesday, 17 February at
19:0
GMT:
http://www.peatworks.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=340&;
qid=40242
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