Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, September 12, 2019 - Volume 722
The Week's News in Access Technology
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1) JAWS For Kiosks
Vispero has released a variant of its JAWS For Windows screenreader designed to provide access to Windows-based Kiosks:
https://www.paciellogroup.com/products/jaws-kiosk/
2) Summary of Apple's "By Innovation Only" Event on September 10th 2019
We now know about Apple's new hardware, and here's a summary from AppleVis:
https://www.applevis.com/blog/editorial-summary-apples-innovation-only-event-september-10
3) Applevis Podcast on New Hardware
Here's more of the same from an AppleVis podcast:
https://www.applevis.com/podcast/applevis-extra-68-recapping-apples-september-10-2019-innovation-only-event
4) MRTP #181
The Maccessibility Round Table podcast gives us yet another perspective on Apple's pronouncements:
http://maccessibility.net/2019/09/10/mrtp-181-promax-use-as-directed
5) Smart Kitchen Gadgets on Tech it Out
The Hadley Tech it Out for September concerns smart kitchen gadgets. It will take place on GMT Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 01:00. Recording and transcript will be available shortly after the event. Recordings and transcripts of previous months' events, like the August one on reading print, are on the site:
https://hadley.edu/discussions/techitout.asp
6) CNIB Podcasts
CNIB has launched a set of podcasts covering technology, entrepreneurship, fitness, family and other topics from a positive blindness perspective:
https://www.cnib.ca/en/node/4496?region=gta
7) Coding Class for Visually Impaired Adults
Our Space Our Place offers a $260 class on HTML and CSS, via Zoom, for nine weeks starting Thursday, 3 October 2019, with two-hour sessions starting at 23:30 GM. Register or ask questions here:
http://www.ourspaceourplace.org/register_coding.php
8) September 2019 AccessWorld
The September issue of AccessWorld contains discussion of Dungeons and Dragons accessibility, the Thawmistry text adventure game, indoor wayfinding from American Printing House, and the Sonos 1 with smart speakers, among other information:
https://www.afb.org/aw/20/9
9) JAWS 2020 is coming
The first unveiling of this year's JAWS, ZoomText and Fusion versions will take place on FS OpenLine on GMT Friday, 20 September 2019 at 00:00:
https://zoom.us/j/7278038000?status=success
10) Google Accessibility on YouTube
There are 50 videos with more coming on different aspects of Google accessibility:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL590L5WQmH8dvW6kLjd5jRDN0IiCJHLZZ&disable_polymer=true
11) iACast #128
The iACast team discuss the current state of accessibility in Mac and PC games and gaming consoles:
https://iaccessibility.net/iacast-128-access-perspective/
12) Sprint Accessibility on Tek Talk
Hear about what can be had from Sprint Accessibility on Tak Talk on GMT Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 00:00:
https://zoom.us/j/839935813
13) Entrepreneurship on Eyes on Success
Two people talk about starting their small business on Eyes on Success Episode #1937:
http://eyesonsuccess.net
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1.) The Paciello Group - Introducing Your One-Stop Shop for All of Your Accessibility Consulting and Training Needs - Flying Blind, LLC Online Store
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Struggling to manage the adverse risk posed to your organization by the deployment of inaccessible content? Seeking guidance on building accessibility best practices into your development cycle? We offer a comprehensive range of services to address your accessibility needs - from accessibility testing of your websites, web applications and mobile apps to identify accessibility issues ...
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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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