Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, August 14, 2014 - Volume 470
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) Learn about using the camera on the iPhone to solve all sorts of blindness-related challenges, as well as take great pictures, on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 19 August at 00:00:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

2A) Join Seminars@Hadley on Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at 19:00 GMT for i-device training on using Zoom, pairing a refreshable Braille device, setting a calendar event, and checking voicemail. To register for the seminar:
http://bit.ly/1ovXsIi

2B) Also, you will find an instructional video on each of the seminar topics posted on Hadley's YouTube channel at:
http://www.youtube.com/hadleyschool

3) Following up on last week's pro-Android piece, Marco from Mozilla is writing a daily journal about his 30-day testing process:
http://30dayswithandroid.blogspot.de/

4) The popular iBlink Radio app from Serotek is now available on the Mac:
http://www.serotek.com

5) Ffrom TUAW, learn about "Using the iPhone Compass App to Hang Pictures Straight"
http://bit.ly/1l4M8m2

6) The NVDA developers are looking for input about their default speech synthesizer:
http://www.nvaccess.org/speech-synthesizer-survey-1/

7) Quick action will be required on this one: CAVI offers a one-session, $25 course on using Skype with any screen reader, on GMT Saturday, 16 August at 01:00. Also, the start date for most of CAVI's second semester 2014 courses have been pushed back to September, so you may still be able to register for some of them:
http://wiki.cucat.org/index.php?n=Main.Skype

8) The August 2014 issue of AccessWorld contains evaluations of the Fitbit Flex, the UN50H6400 Television, and a book review of Learn to Use the Mac with VoiceOver: A Step-by-Step Guide:
http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp

This week's audio offerings include:

9A) Serotalk Podcast 207:
http://serotalk.com/2014/08/12/serotalk-podcast-207-ricky-drops-her-charm/

9B) A demonstration of Gmail, Drive and Google Docs:
https://audioboo.fm/boos/2366439-a-demonstration-of-gmail-drive-and-docs

9C) The Tech Doctor podcast for this time is called Painting the Back of the Apple Accessibility Fence with Rene Ritchie:
http://www.dr-carter.com/

9D) From Eyes on Success, #1432 talks about STEM education for the blind, and #1431 offers tips for finding a job:
http://www.eyesonsuccess.net

From AppleVis:

And from BGZ:

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