Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, October 18, 2018 - Volume 680
The Week's News in Access Technology
A Flying Blind, LLC Publication
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This Week's Featured Advertisement: Webinar: The 'What,' Why,' and 'How' of Digital Accessibility for Business by Larry Lewis, Director of Channel Sales and Strategic Partnerships at The Paciello Group - October 25th 2018
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What: The 'What,' 'Why,' and 'How' of Digital Accessibility For Business by Larry Lewis, Director of Channel Sales and Strategic Partnerships at The Paciello Group
When: Thursday, October 25th at 2:00 PM EST
Where: https://www.3playmedia.com/resources/webinars/webinar-registration-10-25-2018/
About: In this webinar, Larry Lewis, Director of Channel Sales and Strategic Partnerships at The Paciello Group, will explain "what" digital accessibility encompasses, the benefits and importance of embracing accessibility best practices, and how best to achieve a conformant result using finite resources.
Participants will learn how digital accessibility is defined and how it impacts electronic content developed for desktop, mobile, and kiosk platforms.
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This webinar will cover:
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Greetings,
1) 3D Printing for the Blind
This podcast and the related show notes discuss ways to use 3D printing for people with vision loss:
https://www.eastersealstech.com/2018/10/12/atu385-see3d-3d-printing-for-the-blind-with-caroline-karbowski/
2) Watch Live TV with Narrator on Xbox One
This blog post explains how Narrator makes this feat possible:
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/ease-of-access/watch-live-tv-with-narrator-on-xbox-one?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral
3A) Latest in Windows 10 Accessibility
This blog post details the various accessibility enhancements in Windows 10:
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/03/windows-10-accessibility-in-the-october-2018-update/#3xGXSxGh6CdiHvUr.97
3B) Narrator
This YouTube video focuses on Narrator; the same man did a video on the new low vision features last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBuyWie6-Gs
4) Use a Screen Reader to Explore and Navigate Office Lens
Finally from Microsoft, Office Lens can be used with Narrator for image, document and business card scanning:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Use-a-screen-reader-to-explore-and-navigate-Office-Lens-9ac73db6-d07a-4b46-ba2b-28ce32f8839b#PickTab=iOS
5) Courses for IT Certifications
The Cisco Networking Academy offers many free, self-paced courses as well as instructor-led courses leading to a variety of professional certifications:
https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses
6) Dialogue Magazine and Other Free Reading Material from North Carolina
NOBLE is a State of North Carolina download site offering free access to locally produced and recorded Braille materials. Dialogue Magazine from Blindskills, which covers a variety of topics relevant to people with vision loss anywhere, can be obtained free. No application is needed, and audio material is played on NLS equipment:
https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/lbph/read/download/noble
7) JAWS Support of Chrome 70
This quick post describes a change in navigating drop-downs in Chrome V. 70 and the FS response:
http://blog.freedomscientific.com/chrome70/
8) Amazon Echo Show
This podcast is a demo and description of the Amazon Echo Show (MP3):
https://s103.podbean.com/pb/a1e3015e6ea964f90ad663c3ba8b5deb/5bc7b8d5/data1/fs54/339150/uploads/Amazon_Echo_Show_demo.mp3
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If you are employed by, or lead an Organization committed to providing manual, accessibility test services for web content using the JAWS screenreader, but your testing and developer teams have individuals who are not JAWS users, then the newly released JAWS Inspect Solution is your missing ingredient for optimizing your test processes while maximizing your accessibility efforts ...
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Have you been directed to make a website or mobile app 'accessible', but have no idea where to begin? Or perhaps you know a bit about accessibility and really want to immerse yourself in the field, but you can't afford to have you or your ...
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