Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 7, 2016 - Volume 555
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) Here, find a "Huge Cheat Sheet That Tells You Everything You Can Do With Google Now Voice Commands:"
http://bgr.com/2016/04/01/google-now-ok-google-commands/

2) Here is one person's modus operandi, "Tools of a Blind Programmer":
https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/

3) This post is called "What You Should Know About Accessibility + SEO, Part I: An Intro:"
https://moz.com/blog/accessibility-seo-1

4) Brian Hartgen has launched a short course, £50, (about $70,) "Catching up with JAWS", for those who may not be familiar with the features of JAWS versions 16 and 17. The course begins 3 May, and is three hours in length:
http://www.hartgen.org/jawscatchup

5A) Doubtless the most exciting and innovative news to come this week relates to Facebook providing some image descriptions to users of their iOS app. Here is a podcast with their chief engineer:
http://applevis.com/podcast/episodes/applevis-extra-41-matt-king-accessibility-specialist-facebook

5B) Eyes on Success conducts an interview about the above Facebook developments:
http://eyesonsuccess.net

5C) And here is the Facebook Press Release:
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/using-artificial-intelligence-to-help-blind-people-see-facebook/

6) Our very own Larry L. Lewis, Jr. has written a book, "iOS in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Students with Visual Impairments, iOS9 Edition" An online version is $17.95, and EPUB and Kindle format versions are available for $20:
http://bit.ly/iOS9-ITC-AFB-FBLLC

7) A First Public Beta of TalkBack 4.5 with Enhanced Web Support has been released:
http://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=15086

8) Mystic Access has produced a 6-hour audio tutorial on the use of the Amazon Echo and related products from a blindness perspective:
http://www.mysticaccess.com/index.php?crn=208&rn=567&action=show_detail

9) This being the first issue of Tidbits for April, we can be assured that "AppleVis Unlimited: What's New in Accessible Apps for March 2016" is ready for our perusal:
http://www.applevis.com/blog/advocacy-apple-apple-tv-apple-watch-braille-gps-ios-ios-apps-ipad-iphone-mac-os-x-news/applevis

10) On Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 12 April at 00:00, yours truly (Dean Martineau) will extoll the many benefits of Codex, a donationware program designed to make the reading of Kindle and other electronic books very easy. Remember, you can always write if you don't understand how to convert GMT to your time zone, and Tek Talk programs are always recorded:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

11A) The Blind Bargains CSUN wrap-up awaits:
http://blindbargains.com/audio/

11B) Cool Blind Tech gives us their CSUN summary:
https://www.coolblindtech.com/get-geek-csun16-coverage-vip-room/

11C) And Slides from Freedom Scientific's presentation are available:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/Events/csun_presentations

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