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1) Top 3 Most Clicked Tidbits From Last Week

A.) 21 Ways You Didn't Know You Could Use Shortcuts on Your iPhone: (13.9% of all clicks.)
https://mashable.com/article/iphone-shortcuts-app-uses/
B.) The Biggest Technology Failures of 2020: (11.2% of all clicks.)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/31/1015552/biggest-technology-failures-2020/
C.) A Complete List of VoiceOver Keyboard Shortcuts Available on MacOS: (7.7% of all clicks.)
https://www.applevis.com/guides/complete-list-voiceover-keyboard-shortcuts-available-macos

2) Vorail Joins Top Tech Tidbits as 10th Sponsor

We would like to open this week by welcoming aboard our 10th Sponsor in the form of the Vorail Community. From all of us here at Top Tech Tidbits, readers included, we sincerely thank you for your ongoing support. For those of you not familiar with them, Vorail is the only platform in the world for the low vision and blind community where everybody can join conversations by voice on equal footing. Learn more today at:
https://www.vorail.com/

3) How to Answer iPhone Hands-Free

This blog post may teach you some intricacies of Apple device use:
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2021/01/dqc-iphone-hands-free/

4) A Week in the Life of Jill's Apple Watch

The answering iPhone item led me to this post for some creative Apple Watch use:
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2021/01/apple-watch-week-jill/

5) Zoom Webinar | Exploring the Apple Watch with Accessibility in Mind

January 14th 2021 | 3PM PT, 4PM MT, 5PM CT, 6PM ET, 11PM GMT | Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvduqtrjouE9VtNZACkfOSsM7z8GEZLqrC

6) Zoom Webinar | Apple Presentation | Creating Blogs and Websites

January 15th 2021 | 12PM PT, 1PM MT, 2PM CT, 3PM ET, 8PM GMT | This is an ACB Zoom webinar. Join the meeting at:
https://acb-org.zoom.us/j/84439933345

7) Zoom Webinar | An Introduction to Windows Keyboard Commands

January 16th 2021 | 12PM PT, 1PM MT, 2PM CT, 3PM ET, 8PM GMT | This is an ACB Zoom webinar. Join the meeting at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82133188270?pwd=M1RoRkFFUElYbWZvRWo5UHArUnovdz09

8) How to Change the Windows 10 Startup Sound

Courtesy of Help Desk Geek:
https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-change-the-windows-10-startup-sound/

9) Getting Started with Windows 10: Using Windows 10 with Screen Readers

This National Braille Press book, at $22.00 - $24.50 depending on the chosen format, is something that a lot of people have been asking for:
https://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/WINDOWS.html

10) Scribe for Meetings

Pneuma Solutions (formerly Serotech) introduces a way for you to read PowerPoint slides and other shared documents via Zoom "in real time" and promises to expand to other platforms in the near future. It's free while it's in beta. With this new tool a meeting host can upload the slides for a meeting ahead of time and then share a link to accessible versions of the slides that are automatically synchronized with the presentation during the meeting:
https://scribeformeetings.com/

11) Podcast | Episode #31 | Chaos in the Capitol Building from Talk Description to Me

This creative podcast for the blind continues to fill a useful purpose providing descriptions of images from the January 6th 2021 events:
https://talkdescriptiontome.buzzsprout.com/1136756/7186318

12) Podcast | Eyes on Success #2103 | Supersense | January 13th 2021

Making use of advanced artificial intelligence algorithms, Supersense is a powerful and versatile scanning app that can be used to explore your environment, find specific objects, scan text, and much more. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Shane Lowe of the Supersense team about the capabilities of this app and what makes it unique:
http://www.eyesonsuccess.net/show%20notes/show%20notes%202103.htm

13) An Even More Comprehensive List of Google Docs Keyboard Shortcuts Directly From Google

In a follow up to a post from last week around this same topic a reader by the name of Sergei brings us an even more comprehensive resource. Includes a complete list of all PC, Mac and Chrome OS keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/179738?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en#zippy=%2Cpc-shortcuts

14) Teaching Braille Remotely During the Pandemic

This comes courtesy of the APH Family Connect blog:
https://familyconnect.org/blog/uncategorized/louis-brailles-legacy-literacy-for-people-who-are-visually-impaired/

15) GoodMaps Explore Aims to Bring Step-by-Step Navigation to Indoor Spaces

Engadget provides information about this app for the blind:
https://www.engadget.com/goodmaps-explore-app-blind-visual-navigation-185053165.html

16) Accessibility Devices Playing Larger Role at CES

While much of the tech unveiled at this year's CES aims at easing daily life, some of the latest gadgets go one step further to improve the accessibility options for those with disabilities or impairments:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/conventions/ces/accessibility-devices-playing-larger-role-at-ces-2250127/

17) The Best of CES 2021

Wired Magazine gives us the products, prototypes, and ideas that did the best job of signaling the future at this year's consumer tech showcase:
https://www.wired.com/story/best-of-ces-2021/

18) Sony's New Lip-Reading Technology Could Boost Accessibility — or Invade Privacy

Sony's Visual Speech Enablement uses cameras and AI to read lips from far distances, no matter the noise. But are its accessibility benefits overshadowed by the potential for privacy violations?
https://www.pcmag.com/news/sonys-new-lip-reading-technology-could-boost-accessibility-or-invade-privacy

19) Firefox 86 Will Block the 'Backspace-Key To Go Back' Action by Default

The Firefox web browser is one of the few web browsers left that supports using the Backspace-key to go back. Starting in Firefox 86, Firefox users won't be able to use the Backspace-key anymore to navigate back in history by default. The key won't have the action mapped to it anymore. The organization suggests that Firefox users start using Alt-Left-Arrow instead to navigate back. Here's how to restore this functionality if you need to:
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/08/firefox-86-will-block-the-backspace-key-to-go-back-by-default/

20) IRS Services for the Visually Impaired

Visually impaired taxpayers who need assistance with a notice or letter in print format or need other information about the services available through the Alternative Media Center may contact the IRS at (800) 829-1040. In addition, the IRS has also made recent updates to its Accessible Forms & Publications page:
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/accessible-irs-tax-products

21) Bookshare Special Promotion for Veterans

Bookshare is an online library that offers over 927,000 ebooks including textbooks, bestsellers, award-winning favorites, career resources, periodicals, and more in audio, large text, and Braille. Veterans with vision loss, dyslexia, or physical disabilities that impact their ability to read a print book can use Bookshare to read in ways that work for them. For qualifying veterans who are students, membership is free. Veterans who are non-students are eligible for a three-month complimentary membership using promo code VET2020:
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22) Microsoft Backs Development of Smart Cane for Visually Impaired

Jean Marc Feghali has Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, a disease that reduces his peripheral vision and renders him effectively blind at night. But the intelligent walking cane he's helping to develop has been life-changing, he says. It's also won support from Microsoft Corporation. Feghali said the company's goal is to create a product that blends key elements of devices like the FitBit or Apple Watch with hardware that's specifically built for people with limited or no vision. But at close to $600, the product is about ten times more expensive than a conventional white cane. It also requires a smartphone to make the most of its features and the company's free mobile app, which could put it out of reach for many people:
About: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-backs-development-of-smart-cane-for-visually-impaired/ar-BB1cvQAn
Buy The Cane: https://wewalk.io/en/

23) Segway Is Bringing the Hoverchairs From The Movie WALL-E to Life

Next week, Segway will debut new personal transporter pods at CES, the huge annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. It's called the S-Pod, and it doesn't float. Instead, it uses Segway's self-balancing technology to propel the user forward on two wheels, while sitting down:
https://www.wired.com/story/segway-bringing-hoverchairs-wall-e-life/

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