Universal Access. Zoom.
What?
- Universal access includes more than screen readers, such as VoiceOver
- screen magnification, speech recognition, etc.
- makes or breaks in built-in or third-party apps for Zoom/low vision users
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Voice Over On: Episode 28: “Universal Access. Zoom”
Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:16:44 GMT
On this issue of SeroSpectives, Lisa Salinger is joined by Alena Roberts, a private contractor and feature writer for the Matilda Ziegler Magazine, Michael McCarty, Director of Social Media at The American Printing House for the Blind, and Serotek’s own Mike Calvo to discuss the top stories in technology for November, 2011.
In the Community
The NLS Materials Development Division Modifies the Digital Talking Book Management Software
From blastbay Studios: audio demo of our upcoming game, Perilous Hearts!
NEW FAQ on Code Factory’s Noke Screen Reader
Qwitter replacement in alpha testing called Twit Monger.
A user has modified Qwitter 4.5.1 to use the new API, so it can now receive direct messages and mentions streaming.
Another Qwitter spin-off: The Qube
Kudos to Qwitter, the program that proves once and for all, that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Japanese Company Develops Robot Guide Dog
Serotek Conquers a New Frontier for Blind Veterans:
Braille
NFB - National Federation of the Blind Partners with Santa to Promote Braille Literacy
More information on Top Braille
If you use Braille with your iPhone, iPad or iPod, there’s a Braille User Group on AppleVis to connect with others
Cell Phones
From CNETNews: A Windows 8 smartphone could be coming next year
Google unleashes Android Ice Cream Sandwich Coming Nov. 17
iOS
Oregon Puts iPad Voting on the Map
http://t.co/sLF5LZ3yUpdated information on obtaining a refund for inaccessible iOS apps
From Yahooaccess: 10 things blind people can teach us about Apple’s #Siri on the #iPhone 4S. From macstoriesnet: Apple Releases GarageBand for iPhone
http://t.co/xIiJa3VPA Comprehensive Audio Demonstration of Siri
Microsoft
More Accessibility maybe? Office 365 updates begin to percolate through Microsoft’s line-up Windows 7 continues to roll as XP fades away
http://t.co/3R4YBdKWMicrosoft Internet Explorer 10 to add spell checking, auto-correct
Apple
Apple confirms Siri isn’t coming to any other devices as of now
MacBook Air supplies almost one-third of Apple notebook sales
Conclusion
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Serospectives: This Month in Assistive Technology for November, 2011
lisas
Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:12:03 GMT
Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 86: Everybody’s Side Is Right
This week, Jamie Pauls, Joe Steinkamp, and Mike Calvo discuss the news of the week. Also, Mike reviews several SoundDock options from bose for iOS and other devices including the following:
Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile Speaker – Nylon
Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System (Gloss Black
Bose SoundDock Series II Digital Music System for iPod (Black
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The twitmonger users list is now active. subscribe using twitmonger_users-subscribe@lists.shaned.net
Qwitter replacement in alpha testing. go to: http://twitmonger.shaned.net and grab a copy.
HumanWare is seeking input on the future of the Victor Reader Stream via Survey Gizmo
ZoomText 10 feature leak alert – introducing the ZoomText Camera!
November 2011 AccessWorld is now live! Holiday edition (gift ideas 4 ppl w/vision loss)
Self Promotion
Serotek Conquers a New Frontier for Blind Veterans.
SeroSpectives Deck the Dogs.. and the Canes Too!
Amazon
New on Suntimes: My review of the Kindle Fire. At last, a great alternative to the iPad.
A Kindle smartphone may be coming in 2012
U.S. authors: Kindle lending library is ‘contract breach’
Amazon’s cloud is the world’s 42nd fastest supercomputer:
Holidays
NFB – National Federation of the Blind Partners with Santa to Promote Braille Literacy:
Assistive Technology for Young Children: A Parent’s Perspective – YouTube
Chicago Lighthouse pairs with electronics retailer to help the visually impaired
Starbucks Holiday Cups Come to Life With Augmented Reality App
DAISY Player for Android goes live, on sales for a limited time.
arwin Reader Website:
Best Android Apps and options for disabled users
Ivona free update for Android voices
Google Music hits almost all the high notes
Cloud Music Showdown: Google vs. Amazon vs Apple
Apple
Apple launches iTunes Match: music hoarders need not apply:
More on iTunes Match’s new ID3 tags
Apple Can’t Handle The Demand For iTunes Match, Temporarily Halts New Sign-Ups
Apple kicks off worldwide iPod nano first-generation replacement program
Apple’s iCloud inaccessible for some users
iPhone owners might want to avoid iOS 5.0.1 update
RT @papasangre: I’m back. Hit the App Store now-ish.
Tests suggests iPhone battery issue not a hardware problem
The iPhone 5 Was Real, Says A Source Who Played With A Prototype
Mac OS X has its own sandbox security hole:
Apple fixes iTunes man-in-the-middle security hole
OS X Lion growth stagnates at 16% Mac market share
Web stats indicate Mac OS X Lion still growing very fast
MacBook Air supplies almost one-third of Apple notebook sales:
Sirispective
A Comprehensive Audio Demonstration of Siri
Siri’s security sabotaged, developer releases crack tools
SPN Launches Triple Click Home
Kickers
Support new regulations encouraging service dog relief areas within security @ airports.
[NFBAustin] awesome BELL Video, complete
SeroTalk Podcast 86: Everybody’s Side Is Right
jpauls
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:25:18 GMT
He’s back, due to popular demand, and wealth of knowledge, we have James Teh of NVAccess http://NVDA-Project.org and developer of NVDA back on.
Voice Over On: Episode 27: Screenreaders. Developer’s perspective. NVDASR Part II
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:53:14 GMT
Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 85: I Want Food!
This week, Jamie Pauls, Ricky Enger, and Joe Steinkamp discuss the top news stories of the week. Stories covered in this episode include:
Browsing
AOL still has 3.5 million dial-up subscribers
Adobe Stops Development of Mobile Browser Flash [REPORT]
Will there be a Silverlight 6 and does it matter?
New extension for Liber and Open Office
What’s new in accessibility in the Firefox 8 update?
Kindle Cloud Reader Comes to Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 to add spell checking, auto-correct
Which of the big five Web Browsers is the Best? (Review)
General Tech
RIM can’t catch a break. New troubles push PlayBook OS 2.0 to February.
Google to end support for Gmail on Blackberries
Apple
Oregon Puts iPad Voting on the Map
Apple App Store Hack Makes Good Apps Go Bad
Unlike iPhone 4, Consumer Reports recommends iPhone 4S | The Digital Home – CNET News –
iPhone 4S speakers don’t play stereo correctly, tests show
TA Daily Tip 330: iOS 5.0.1 Over the Air Update
Five other fixes I want in iOS 5.0.1 | iPhone Atlas – CNET Reviews –
SiriSpective
Apple confirms Siri isn’t coming to any other devices as of now
Want To Use Siri To Control Your Mac? Now You Can!
How to Quickly Launch Apps With Siri
Braille
Type in Braille on your iOS device – EveryWare Technologies:
More information on Top Braille
The UK adopts standard for English Braille
AT
Why We’re All Wrong About the Future of User Interfaces
blastbay: audio demo of our upcoming game, Perilous Hearts!
NEW FAQ on Code Factory’s Noke Screen Reader
Amazon buys a voice recognition company to add Siri functions to Kindle?
Mailbag
iReport from Edward Alonzo on GW Micro OCR device and the Blind iPhone
From Michael Bryant, we are promoting the show notes at serotalk.com here.
Hello all,
I am interested in the free download of the Jaws 12 and the Windows 7 downloads. Both by Kathy Ann Mertha.
It has be difficult to find it. Would you forward me thelinks?
My name is michael Bryant
Thanks so much
Best regards and love your podcasts.
From Ben King
Dear serotalk team,
You did an excellent job with the show. My question is to you. Is the windows seven book using system access going to be in Braille? Please let me know.
Keep up the great work! Look forward to the next show.
Blessings,
Ben
From Gary, no last name given on the Twitter and iPhone
Hey all. Great podcast. Another good twitter app for the iPhone is twitterific. I use that one.
Another one from Dan about NLS
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in what we are thinking about!
I received my NLS digital Talking Book player about a year ago. In 2009 and 2010, there were quarterly reports about it in the News; I live in Northern California and receive the Talking Book Lending Library News in both print and Braille. I’ll admit not using the player much for NLS reading material. I have received a few cartridges from the library in Sacramento, but more from Christian Record Services library, and I bought a personal 2 gig cartridge from Perkins School for the Blind. I use it mainly for Librivox books and for playing high fidelity music in jam situations and at church, where mp3s and wma files come in handy. 2 Gigs is a lot of space and I only occasionally have to use compression to reduce the size of movie files or larger music files. I have the upgrade for the new player, and I have found it easy when necessary to download the upgrade software and install it from the cartridge.
So I don’t know about the claim that the digital players are not distributed well in Northern California or how accurate it is. I think it might be more fair to say that there may be a yawning disinterest on the part of some of the qualified blind people who could, if they wished, receive it. Many of them seem to think the tapes they want are simply more widely available than good books on cartridges. What good is the player if you can’t get the books or magazines you want to play on it? As books on cartridge and thumb drive become more widely available, the player may become more popular. I would love it if you keep commenting regarding thoughts regarding your use of digital talking book players, distributions, other applications of said technology, and the BARD Web site. Mentioning some of the lesser known libraries would help, too.
Oh, by the way, my friend Sheila in Philadelphia bought a cartridge, too, and she likes having Librivox books and music on it, too, and we have also been reading some recordings from http://www.fcbh.org
Sincerely,
Dan Shelley
More on NLS, this time from Beth.
Hi, way to go on podcast 84! Mike’s thoughts about book-writing are great and I have a site which may make future publishing and writing easier, here is the link for more info and you guys can explore the whole site at your leisure and as you prefer:
http://www.hyperink.com/platform
I love my NLS player, the sound is exemplary, hope the Stratus is that good too! Regarding the new Read Easy Plus: I see a couple of genuine markets. Sometimes, blind tech users just want simplicity and, in this case, portability, with just one machine, no lugging around a laptop, camera, plus your material to scan. Some seniors would also definitely benefit. You discussed Facebook, a funny thing happened on Skype the other night. I got one call announcing some kind of I.D. number, what was that? I also got 2 requests to be added to my contacts from people I never heard of and I blocked those and found the list of status indicators and I now am invisible on Skype, except if I know I have a call scheduled. How did those people get my Skype name? Keep up the terrific work, guys! Beth
From Mike Arigo
Just listened to pod cast 84, a few comments. I like the android shoes idea. Hopefully they would have a speaker, this would allow you to have spoken directions as well. That GW Micro reading thing is silly, I would also like to know who would waste money on that, notice I said waste, not spend, because that’s what it is. You could get a nice computer, scanning software and a scanner or camera for so much less.
Why pay more for a device that only does one thing, even for someone who doesn’t want to do anything else, get a computer and put the scanning software in their start up folder in windows, or log in items on the mac and it will automatically start when you turn on the computer. I cannot think of any reason to get that at all. This new version of keysoft is another example, charging for an update and the main new feature is PDF support. Let’s see, I’ve been able to read PDF files since 2001 when Adobe made acrobat reader accessible in Windows, and on the mac, the preview application which comes with the mac reads PDF files and is very accessible. Another example of how these specialty note takers are way behind the times, cost too much and need to be replaced by main stream products that are now available, again, there’s really no reason to buy one of those when you can get all of that functionality and more much cheaper.
SeroSpectives from October 20th Email from Laney
I put up a post about the the U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed regulations on airline web and check-in kiosk accessibility. Information on how to comment and areas where I think the regulations need to be strengthened, is included. (Comments due November 25, 2011).
The direct link is: http://lflegal.com/2011/11/dot-proposed-regs-2/
Kickers
Japanese Company Develops Robot Guide Dog
Serotalk Podcast 85: I Want Food!
jpauls
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:06:33 GMT
This is a very different episode, where instead of having a primary focus on VoiceOver, we have NVAccess Vice President and Co-Lead developer, James Teh on to talk about NVDA, specifically how it compares and contrast to Apple VoiceOver for Mac OS X and iOS. James answers to who and the what of NVAccess, himself, and NVDA.
Voice Over On: Episode 26: “Screenreaders. Developer’s perspective. NVDASR”
Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:27:40 GMT
