Talking Tech for June 28 2016

VFO group adding AI Squared

 

I’m not sure what the implications of this will be, but now e have a single company selling the two major screen readers: JAWS and Window-Eyes, and the two major screen magnification programs: Zoomtext and MAGic.  Then we have OpenBook as well plus all the low vision hardware from FS and Optalec.

 

http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/News/Article/167 

Conferences coming up in the US and the UK

 

National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Convention June 30 to July 5 2016

 

https://nfb.org/convention 

ACB Conference and Convention July 1-9 2016

 

http://acb.org/2016program 

Sight Village Conferences Uk 

 

Various dates and locations: July, September, and November in the uK.

 

http://www.sightvillage.co.uk 

This App Makes the iPhone or iPad Accessible for Deaf Blind People: 

Open Access Captions

 

Developed by the Brisbane-based Conexu Foundation, the app directly connects callers via a live captioner so that phone conversations can be read as they happen.

 

Currently in trial, use app (free) to indicate interest in the trial or email hello@conexu.com.au.

 

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/06/this-app-makes-your-smartphone-accessible-for-deafblind-people/ 

9Now on the Apple TV

 

Finally got a useful live or replay shows app on the Apple TV, 9Now use is quite usable.

The only issue I had was when trying to sign up via the iOS app the agree to privacy agreement checkbox wasn’t accessible, so ended up doing the signup to get a 9Now profile via the website.

 

 

Creating a Shortcut file for Mac/Win to open webpages

 

I’ve been asked this over the years, and only rediscovered this in the last week or so when I got several questions about the same thing.

 

Very very easy: simply create a file with two lines: [InternetShortCut] URL=“insertWebLink” without the aquotes, and save as a text file with the .url extension.

Note - if your using Textedit on the Mac, turn the rtf Textedit in to a text file via Shift+Command+T.