Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, March 14, 2019 - Volume 700
The Week's News in Access Technology
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This Week's Featured Advertisement: Come Join The Paciello Group Team at CSUN 2019
20 years ago this month I had the pleasure of working my first CSUN Conference. Two decades later, and I couldn't think of a better way for me to celebrate my 20 year CSUN Anniversary than by working alongside, and standing with the most comprehensive, competent group of Digital Accessibility Professionals that this Industry has to offer. I am fortunate to be a part of a team with so such depth of Accessibility know-how.
I'm looking forward to meeting, and reconnecting with those of you planning to attend next week's proceedings in Anaheim, CA. Be it in the Exhibit Hall, during my Presentation, or in our Hospitality Suite, I'm very excited to be making new friends and spending more time with current ones.
Please visit the link below for a list of Paciello Group presentations, and be sure to swing by Booth 409 in the Exhibit Hall to say "Hello"! May your travels be uneventful and safe as you make your way to Anaheim next week!
2019 CSUN Paciello Group Presentation Schedule
https://tinyurl.com/y292lqba
Respectfully
Larry L. Lewis, Jr.
Greetings,
Yes, this is our 700th issue, dating back to late 2004, and it comes at a most auspicious moment for me personally (Dean Martineau) so we will be taking a short two week hiatus as of today. The next issue of Tidbits will arrive in your inbox on April 4th 2019. I'll be largely off the grid during this time, though I will peruse email.
A tweet from last Christmas Day listed fifteen things that did not exist in the world fifteen years ago, in other words, a year before Tidbits was launched. This list includes iPhone, iPad, Twitter, DropBox, Instagram, Netflix, Streaming, Snapchat, Android, Spotify, Facebook, Android, Uber, Lift, Alexa, AirBnb, App Store, Google Chrome, WhatsApp, Fitbit, Waze, Slack, Square, Hulu, Bitcoin, Kindle, and Venmo. To that list I'll add: HIMS, BARD, NVDA, Subscription JAWS, Fusion, viable Narrator, Chromebook, Victor Stream, and Office 365. A lot has happened, and we won't even address the organizations and services that no longer exist now that existed then. Much to reflect upon as we peruse this, our 700th issue of Tidbits.
1) Table of Contents for New Book
My (Dean Martineau) under $20 book, Windows Keyboard Power User Guide will appear in April 2019. This link will give you a version of the Table of Contents in Word format:
http://techforblind.us/WindowsKeyboardPowerUserTOC.docx
2) Controlling Cookies
This 2017 Consumer Reports article explains cookies, how to distinguish the ones you want to keep from the ones you may not:
https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-control-web-cookies-and-boost-online-privacy/
3) Seeing AI Update
iOS users can navigate a picture to learn where people and objects are. The app works on the iPad:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seeing-ai/id999062298?mt=8
4) Be My Eyes Can Connect with Google Accessibility Support
Users of Be My Eyes can connect by video with Google Accessibility Support during their open hours of 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific:
https://www.bemyeyes.com/
5) Add Alternative Text to Facebook Photos
The Tech Abilities podcast provides full transcripts, and this one talks through the process of adding alternative text to your Facebook photos:
http://blindabilities.com/?p=4600
6) Fedora Outlier Courses
Fedora Outlier offers thorough courses on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac:
https://teach.fedoraoutlier.com/
7) Replacing Your Computer with an iPad
The free online course, "Replacing Your Traditional Computer With an iPad" starts on 9 April 2019. Skill with VoiceOver is mandatory. For information, put "Wish to Join Online Course" in the subject line and send a message to:
info@ttjtech.net
8) Cutting the Cable
Access Tech Watch offers a podcast detailing a way to get rid of cable bills:
https://accesstechwatch360.podbean.com/e/accessibly%e2%80%99-cut-the-cable-pay-less-get-more-for-your-accessible-entertainment-needs/
9) Blind Bargains Qast #175
This is the last BBQ before CSUN, and the podcasts with transcripts will start appearing toward the end of March 2019:
https://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=19975
10) iOS App to Teach Coding to Children
Bally Land Code 2 helps children learn to code:
http://www.sonokids.org
11) Stascom 2019
This is a free Windows program with a lot of useful utilities:
https://www.stascom.co.za/stascom.html
12) Weather Gods on Eyes on Success
Eyes on Success #1911 focuses on the highly accessible app Weather Gods and the process for making it that way:
http://eyesonsuccess.net
13) NFB Newsline App on Kindle
Hear about the NFB Newsline skill for Kindle on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 19 March 2019 at 00:00:
https://zoom.us/j/839935813
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