Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, February 2, 2017 - Volume 596
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
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1) The January 2017 issue of AccessWorld includes articles such as,
"2016: The Year of Braille," "The Quest for "The Holy Braille"
Full-Page Refreshable Braille Display: An Interview with Alex
Russomanno," "VizLens and HALOS: Making Touchscreen Appliances and
Other Devices More Blind Friendly," and "A Review of the Mystic Access
Apple Watch Tutorial:"
http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp
2) This BlindCoolTech feature discusses the subject of one of those
AccessWorld articles, VizLens, a promising service that Helps the Blind
Operate Appliances with Digital Screens and Unlabeled Physic
Buttons:
https://coolblindtech.com/vizlens-helps-the-blind-operate-appliances-wit
h-digital-screens-and-unlabeled-physical-buttons/
3) AFB has gotten behind this intriguing developing product: Aira:
Visual Interpreter for t
Blind:
https://medium.com/aira-io/aira-ceo-suman-kanuganti-announces-partnershi
p-with-afb-9ab8680561fc#.aprhplcta
4) Right on schedule, AppleVis tells us "What's New and Noteworthy for
Janua
2017:"
http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-apple-tv-apple-watch-braille-gaming-i
os-ios-apps-mac-apps-macos-news/applevis-unlimited
5) This partially commercial article does a good job of featuring "12
Mighty Clever Apps Making Smartphones Work Harder for Bli
Users:"
http://www.upworthy.com/12-mighty-clever-apps-making-smartphones-work-ha
rder-for-blind-users
6) Here is a YouTube demonstration of Nearby Explorer for iOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlc0Pjv4Qro&feature=youtu.be
7) This video shows how NVDA is changing lives for the blind in India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQiTv-pno0&feature=youtu.be
@enableIndiaTv
8) Have a look at "The Complete List of 3D Touch Shortcuts f
iPhone:"
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/01/complete-list-3d-touch-shortcuts-ipho
ne.html
9) The KNFBReader online school has over an hour of useful video
tutorials on how to use t
App:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW144PTYGib0d3XFZiHS0OKgB5LF-_O1t
10) DuckDuckGo is an intriguing search engine; it has now celebrated 10
billion anonymo
searches:
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14381138/duckduckduckgo-privacy-anonym
ous-searching-10-billion
11) The latest free, self-voicing game release from Spoonbill Software
will interest many throughout the British Commonwealth: With BG 2020
Cricket, you can play with existing teams or build your own, or edit an
existing team to change batting order, batting strength, bowling style
and strength:
http://www.spoonbillsoftware.com.au
12) This YouTube video demonstrates, using speech for demonstration
purposes, how a deaf-blind person can send a text using the iPhone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73amGqTH89A&feature=youtu.be
13) TV systems are becoming more accessible. The Roku has accessibility
features:
https://www.roku.com/accessibility#
14) And so do some TiVo's:
https://www.tivo.com/accessibility
15) Children with low vision may be able to receive free iPads and a
specialized reading app to use for reading the BookShare collection:
http://chrishofstader.com/howard-kaplan-spotlight-gateway-and-me/
16) In podcasts, you can listen to The Blind Side, Episode 21, with
information about a blindness-related Broadway audio-description
lawsuit and Judy Dixon's new book from National Braille Press:
https://soundcloud.com/theblindsidepod
17) Learn about a theater company for disabled actors in the first of a
two-part series on Eyes on Success, Episode 1706:
http://eyesonsuccess.net
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