Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, December 20, 2018 - Volume 688
The Week's News in Access Technology
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1) InProcess with Latest NVDA News
Learn about the official release of NVDA 2018.4, and get an explanation about Emojis:
https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-18th-december-18/
2) Text Tutorial on Emojis
Speaking of Emojis, now that NVDA 2018.4 and JAWS 2019 support them more robustly, here is a tutorial about how to use the Emoji panel:
https://win10.groups.io/g/win10/message/30067
3) How to Set Up an iDevices Switch as a Blind Person
This short post gives the needed information:
https://kevinrenatojones.wordpress.com/2018/12/18/how-to-set-up-an-idevices-switch-as-a-blind-person/
4) Microsoft Reveals Accessibility Goals for Chromium Browsers on Windows
With the demise of Microsoft Edge as we know it, here is some news about its successor project:
https://www.windowslatest.com/2018/12/15/microsoft-reveals-accessibility-goals-for-chromium-browsers-on-windows/
5) Web Accessibility Laws & Policies
This is a good place to learn about web accessibility laws throughout the world:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/
6) I Threw Away My Mouse
In this 24 Accessibility Talk, the speaker discusses using keyboard-only navigation on over 200 web pages, and the difficulties he encountered:
https://www.24a11y.com/2018/i-threw-away-my-mouse/
7A) Major New Alexa Skills
NFB Newsline is now available via Alexa. Articles are read using your Newsline phone settings:
https://www.amazon.com/National-Federation-the-Blind-NFB-NEWSLINE/dp/B07KZZZ8C9
7B) Apple Music Too
Apple Music is also becoming available via Alexa:
https://www.facebook.com/1179121802205288/posts/1881039538680174/
8) Improvements Made to Horizon and Aira Service
Some of this information is pertinent to those accessing Aira using free offers:
https://aira.io/horizon-updates-dec-2018
9) CNIB Podcasts
The CNIB Podcast Network is a collection of audio programming designed to give a voice to people across the CNIB community as they share their personal stories of life with sight loss:
https://cnib.ca/en/node/4496
10) Hadley Discussion of Digital Assistants
Tthis is the replay of the December 2018 Tech it Out Forum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuPN3KKsy4&feature=youtu.be
11) FS Open Line Replay
FSCast #174 is a replay of the December 2018 Open Line Talk Show (MP3):
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/f/1/4/f14d57021bbed1a4/FSCast164.mp3
12) Maccessibility Roundtable Podcast
Episode #168 includes discussion of Apple Music on Alexa, Shortcuts, updates and new purchases:
http://maccessibility.net/2018/12/09/mrtp-166-failing-differently
13) Golden Apples of 2018
The AppleVis Community names Weather Gods, FEER, Seeing AI, and Microsoft as its Golden Apples of 2018:
https://www.applevis.com/blog/applevis-assistive-technology-gaming-ios-apps-news/applevis-community-names-weather-gods-feer
14) AccessWorld for December 2018
The December 2018 issue of AccessWorld includes information for gift shoppers, explanation of the new JAWS and ZoomText subscription plans, explanation of ABLE accounts, and reviews of the NVIDIA Shield TV and the Insignia Smart TV, Fire TV Edition:
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pubnew.asp?DocID=aw1912toc
15) Last Blind Bargains Qast of the Year?
There is usually a Year End Edition, but here is episode #168:
https://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=19784
16) Blindfold Games and ObjectiveEd
Episode 1851, presumably the next-to-last one of the year, of Eyes on Success, covers these two endeavors of Marty Schultz:
http://eyesonsuccess.net
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