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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, January 12, 2023 - Volume 893The Week's News in Access Technology A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in access technology. Subscribers: 7,190 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 159 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email. This Week's Featured Advertisement: No Sponsorship Packages Currently Available. Please Consider Joining Our Waiting List Today! This Issue Made Possible By Support From The Following Sponsors:
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Company Unveils Latest Generation Of Assistive Device For The Legally Blind (4.3% of all clicks.) D.) How To Turn On Walking Steadiness Notifications In iOS 16 (3.8% of all clicks.) E.) 5 Easy Ways To Make Desktop Shortcuts On Windows 11 (3.6% of all clicks.) 2) Sponsorship Package UpdatesAvailability: There are no Top Tech Tidbits Sponsorship Packages currently available. Waiting List: If you would like to support Top Tech Tidbits by becoming a Sponsor in the future please add your name to our waiting list today. We will add your name to the list, let you know what position you currently hold within it, and then notify you the moment a package becomes available. Waiting List Position: There are currently THREE future Sponsors on the waiting list. List Addition: Just send an email to our Publisher at: 3) Premium Subscriber UpdatesNext Issue: Premium Subscribers will receive their 4th issue of the 60 Most Clicked Tidbits for January, February and March 2023 on Monday, April 3rd 2023. 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WayAround is the app for your smart device that provides on-demand details about everyday things. The simple tag-and-scan approach lets you quickly and easily identify things around you. It also provides extra details, like how something works or when it expires. The result? Doing more of the things you want, with more confidence and more independence. Get all the information you want with just a tap of your phone. No more waiting around to ask someone. You need just two things to get started: The free mobile app for iOS or Android and some smart WayTags ®: 5) CES 2023 Coverage Begins Here | Jump To Tidbit Heading #16 To SkipWe open this week with some pretty extensive coverage of CES 2023. If you find at any point that you just can't take it anymore, we certainly understand, and provide you with the following link to skip directly to Tidbit Heading #16 below, which ends CES coverage for 2023: 6) Smart Home, Health Tech, and Everything Else We Saw at CES | WiredIn the world of consumer tech, there's no palate-cleanser for the new year quite like the annual CES, the giant electronics show. What better way to kick off 2023 than to find your way through the maze of metal and screens (and germs) and Alexa-equipped toothbrushes and pet-feeding robots (and germs) and hyper-futuristic electric vehicles that may never actually ship (also, probably germs)? Our WIRED editors are on the ground at CES, keeping an eye out for the most important developments to emerge from the gadget extravaganza: 7) 9 More Of The Wild And Strange Things We've Seen At CES 2023 | WiredTech's big show rolls on, with more visions of the future on display. Here are some more of the coolest gadgets we've seen: 8) The Best Cars, Rides, and Auto Tech of CES 2023Aside from color-morphing concepts and Tron-inspired bikes, this year's show was about how car and tech companies will work closer together in the future: 9) The Silly, Wild And Absurd Tech We Found At CES 2023 | GizmodoCES is usually bursting at the seams with absolutely pointless stuff that's been given a technology injection for absolutely no reason. Unlike many before it, this year's CES was a little less stupid, but 2023 still brought with it some silly stuff. The following is a wrap-up of everything that made me stop and go, 'hmm. Do we really need that?' or 'Wow this is bizarre, but I kinda really like it'. It's a very scientific scale, so without further ado: 10) CES 2023: Samsung Previews A New TV Mode For People With Low VisionRelumino Mode is coming to select Samsung TVs later this year: 11) The Best of CES 2023 | WiredThese are the products, prototypes, and ideas that most clearly signaled the future at this year's consumer tech showcase: 12) I've Seen The Future Of AR Glasses At CES 2023 — And It's Amazing | Barry Collins | ForbesAugmented reality glasses are going to be big, and I've been given a sneak preview of the technology that will power the glasses from major manufacturers. And it's astonishingly good: 13) Panasonic Announces Smart Glasses For The Visually Impaired At CES 2023Panasonic and Biel Glasses have announced a new pair of smart glasses to aid mobility for the visually impaired. Panasonic is partnering with Barcelona-based start-up Biel, the two companies have announced a pair of 'life-changing' smart glasses for aiding in mobility for visually impaired individuals at CES 2023: 14) The 14 Best Gadgets From CES 2023 You Can Buy Right Now | WiredFrom gaming headsets to electric in-line skates, here's everything announced at the tech trade show that you can actually order today: 15) These Trends At CES Are Shaping The Future Of Technology | CNetIf you want to know where the future of technology lies, then CES 2023 is where you needed to be. The show floor was filled with buzzy, headline-grabbing products of the week, like a toilet sensor that can read your pee or a color-changing car with AI sass. But these are products you likely aren't buying soon. The real value of the world's largest consumer electronics trade show is how it lays out a vision for where tech may go in the coming months and years: 16) Windows 11 January 2023 Update Comes With Hidden FeaturesMicrosoft has released January 2023 update for Windows 11 version 22H2 and 21H2 with security improvements. On the surface, Windows 11 January 2023 updates include only security features, but it looks like Microsoft has left more than a few things out in the update: 17) New Details Emerge About Apple's Mixed-Reality HeadsetIf you're into virtual reality, you were probably focused on the news coming out of CES this week. There was no shortage of new augmented reality glasses and virtual reality headsets. But the biggest AR-VR news came from a company that very deliberately did not announce it at CES: 18) Using ChatGPT As A Translation Service With A KickSince ChatGPT's public release in November 2022, users from all over the world have discovered applications for it. From handing out recipes to spicing up search engine results and using it to get TV show and movie recommendations. Another application that may be useful to some users is translation: 19) ChatGPT And Programming: Incredible. Terrifying. I Love It. | Iestyn LloydPublisher (Di Blasi): I, personally, began my programming journey as a child on a Tandy TRS-80 that I bought from Radio Shack. I bought it. I brought it home. I hooked it up to the TV. Yes, to the TV. Via RCA I think? White, yellow and red? Turned on the power and the whole screen glowed a light blue except for a single blinking white cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen. I pressed the keys on the keyboard and the characters appeared on the screen. That was the level of knowledge I began with. From there I digested all of the documentation I could find and eventually learned the BASIC programming language. This acronym stood for Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. I used it to write a software program to help me study for my SATs. And I was off. From there I moved on to a Commodore 64. And then a 128. Ooh. That stood for 128K. And then came DOS. And then came IBM. And then came Dell. I was pretty much Microsoft Windows all the way. I didn't venture into the Apple camp until I held a position as a graphic designer at a firm that used only Apple workstations. So I'd like to think I know a few things. But reading this particular article humbled me so deeply that it reminded me of those first days again, staring at a blank screen, not knowing what a cursor was, what it did, or what was behind it. The magic. The horror. I feel like that is exactly where we are right now with AI. This author's comment, "I feel like a farm worker that has seen a tractor for the very first time," is what made me realize that once again, I know nothing. Iestyn Lloyd: The future is here. I've seen it. I've used it. It has blown my mind. ChatGPT has been released in free research preview and it is incredible. While ChatGPT can do many different things, it's the programming side that I'm particularly interested in. You can ask it — in plain English — to generate code for you by describing what you want the code to do. Recently I've been using MicroPython and Python a lot, so focused on that. Here's some examples: 20) The Fourth Age Of Programming | Jon Stokes | ReplitPublisher (Di Blasi): Following our theme above regarding ChatGPT and the future of programming, I offer you this incredibly informative piece that explains in layman terms exactly what the "singularity" is, and just how close we might be to achieving it. Wikipedia: The technological singularity — or simply the singularity — is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization. According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.J. Good's intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence. Jon Stokes: In normieland, where I still spend plenty of time both online and IRL, software's newfound ability to write, draw, and speak like we humans is often taken as evidence that the machines are about to remake our entire society (again) and totally change the nature and value of labor (again). I don't think the normies are wrong about this, but as flashy as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT are, old heads know that the Robot Apocalypse has exactly one and only one horseman: computer programs that can write computer programs: 21) ChatGPT Generated AppleScript for Music | Kevin Shaw | AppleVisHave you ever been listening to the Music app on Mac OS and went, "Oh, I wonder what song this is?" For me, that means command-tabbing to the Music app, getting to the LCD area, interacting and then reading the song title and artist. Wouldn't it be great to hit one key and hear song title and artist, no matter what app you were in? 22) 20 Entertaining Uses Of ChatGPT You Never Knew Were Possible | Mark SchaeferOur RISE community has been on fire, exploring the breathtaking possibilities of ChatGPT. The uses of ChatGPT are simply endless and intoxicating. It's still early days. Companies are trying to figure out the legal and ethical implications of a content world suddenly turned on its head by artificial intelligence. And yet ... applying powerful AI to everyday tasks is awesome. So I challenged my RISE community friends ... let's have some fun and come up with some non-obvious uses and share them with the world. Here we go: 23) OpenAI Begins Piloting ChatGPT Professional, A Premium Version Of Its Viral ChatbotOpenAI this week signaled it'll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. In an announcement on the company's official Discord server, OpenAI said that it's “starting to think about how to monetize ChatGPT” as one of the ways to “ensure [the tool's] long-term viability.” The monetized version of ChatGPT will be called ChatGPT Professional, apparently. That's according to a waitlist link OpenAI posted in the Discord server, which asks a range of questions about payment preferences including “At what price (per month) would you consider ChatGPT to be so expensive that you would not consider buying it?” 24) How To Change Text Size For Individual Apps On Your iPhone | Cool Blind Techhttps://coolblindtech.com/how-to-change-text-size-for-individual-apps-on-your-iphone/ 25) Introducing BARD For The BlindShellIntroducing the BARD mobile app for the Blind Shell Classic 2. BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) is a free library service of downloadable braille and audio reading material for residents of the United States and US citizens living abroad who are unable to read or use standard printed material because of visual or physical disabilities. BARD provides access to thousands of special-format books, magazines, and music scores. The site is password-protected. All files are downloadable as compressed audio or formatted ebraille files. BARD is a partnership between NLS and its network of cooperating libraries. NLS maintains the website, uploads titles, and supplies libraries with circulation statistics: 26) Demonstration: Using BARD With The BlindShell Classic 2 | Michael Babcock | YouTubeIn this video Michael demonstrates how to use BARD, a popular app for the blind, with the Blind Shell Classic 2. He covers all the necessary steps, including installing the app, downloading a book, and playing that book: 27) eSight Launches Its Next Gen Assistive DesignLeading vision-enhancement platform, eSight, has announced the launch of its latest innovation in assistive technology, eSight Go. The wearable device sets a new standard for enhanced vision technology through its heightened visual clarity, lightweight design and expansive field of view, helping those with central vision loss gain independence in their everyday life: 28) How To Quickly Change Windows And Browser Tabs With Your Keyboard On Windows | MakeUseOfIn this article, we'll cover the exact different ways to change your Windows tab easily: 29) Open Source Recording And Streaming App OBS Studio 29.0 ReleasedThe OBS Project has released OBS Studio 29.0 for Windows and Mac OS devices. The Linux version of OBS Studio 29.0 is not yet available at the time of writing on the official project website, but downloads are available on GitHub: 30) 10 Browser Add-Ons to Make Downloading Videos EasyNeed to grab a clip from Twitter or remix that YouTube meme compilation? These tools can help: 31) The Dynamic Tactile Device: A New Solution to an Old Problem | APHThe Monarch, our upcoming Dynamic Tactile Device, wouldn't be where it is today without our partners at @NFB_voice and @HumanWare. Learn more about how we've come together to turn this dream device into a reality: 32) JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver Braille Viewers | Adrian RoselliFirst, a very important qualifier — this does not represent how Braille display users experience the web. All this post does is show how to enable the Braille display emulators in JAWS and VoiceOver. This can be handy when testing issues reported by users and you do not have a Braille display handy, though this is really only handy for sighted readers. In no way is this post meant to suggest you can replace Braille display testing with these emulators. Ok, two paragraphs of disclaimers later, let's look at our options: 33) Microsoft's VALL-E Copies Original Speakers' Voices, Emotions To Synthesize Personalized SpeechesMicrosoft's new language model VALL-E is an interesting artificial intelligence tool that can copy human voices and even the emotions and tones in them. It only needs a three-second recording to be used as an acoustic prompt but can deliver a different message using the original speaker's voice: 34) Learning About the NVDA Review Cursor | Thee Quinn | YouTubeIn this video I will explain and demonstrate the use of the NVDA review cursor: 35) Sony Releases Its First Accessible ControllerThe company unveiled Project Leonardo, a fully customizable, accessible console game controller, built with the help of the disabled community: 36) Sony's New PS5 Controller Looks Like A Big Leap For Accessibility On PlayStationSony revealed a brand-new controller for its PlayStation 5 on January 4th 2023, a device called Project Leonardo that aims at bring improved accessibility to players on PlayStation. The device, which can be paired with an existing DualSense controller or used on its own, is currently in development, and does not have a release date or price: 37) Jaws Scripts For WhatsApp | Hartgen ConsultancyIn 2022, our Leasey product began offering support for WhatsApp. We're now pleased to extend the same functionality so as to support the app downloadable from the Microsoft Store. As of February 1st 2023, the scripts will be available as a separate product. Anyone who is entitled to receive the upcoming Leasey version 8 will not need to purchase this additional separate product: 38) LeaseyBite 35, Leasey with Spotify Part 2 | Hartgen Consultancy | MP3Spotify gives you millions of songs at your fingertips. The artists you love, the latest hits, and new discoveries just for you. It allows you to stream songs over the internet and listen to them as if they were stored on your computer. Let us continue our journey to learn how to use Spotify to create and manage Playlists, share songs, listen to Song Radio and more: 39) LeaseyBite 36, Leasey Virtual Notes | Hartgen Consultancy | MP3It is more than possible that you would like to work in one application while referring to notes in another one or within a series of applications. You may be writing a report in Microsoft Word, but you've made notes relating to a client which are stored in a text file which would typically be opened up in Notepad or another text editor. To get to those notes, you may have to press alt with tab a number of times to find it, especially if you have several applications open. Alternatively, you may be a person who does quite a lot of audio recording, and you need to read text which you have compiled from a number of documents or web page sources. You would need to start the recording, and then press alt tab often several times in order to move to the web page or document of interest. A new feature in Leasey version 8, called Leasey virtual notes, makes referring to text a very easy process: 40) LeaseyBite 37, Mastodon Address Book | Hartgen Consultancy | MP3Mastodon is a social network which has become popular in recent months. One of its attractions is that you can express yourself more fully, as some of the server providers allow you to send messages comprising thousands of characters. After all, if you have to condense a message into a small number of characters, this can lead to misunderstanding and frustration. But one problem can occur, and this relates to how to remember the different addresses of the people you would like to write to. Meet the Mastodon Address Book which can help. Available in Leasey Version 8: 41) Microsoft Ends Security Updates, Technical Support for Windows 7 and 8.1Windows users running these legacy operating systems will be vulnerable to evolving security threats if they don't upgrade to a later version: 42) Apple Exploring Advanced Sensors That Could Help With Blood Glucose And Blood Pressure Monitoring On The Apple WatchAccording to a newly published patent today, Apple is exploring new optical sensors for the Apple Watch. The latest research shows the company's researchers exploring a new hybrid interferometric and scatterometric sensor. Fiber optic interferometers have been shown to help with numerous health-sensing applications in research labs: 43) Bookshare Reader for iOS and Android Now Availablehttps://www.bookshare.org/cms/get-started/bookshare-reader 44) For Users Of NVDA And Thunderbird: Thunderbird+ Addon Introduction | Pierre Louis | Tech-VI ListHello. I would like to introduce you to my addon "Thunderbird+" which exists in French for several years but which has only recently been localized in English. So, sorry for my English, my native language is French. Thunderbird+ improves the accessibility, efficiency and convenience of using Thunderbird with NVDA in the following ways: 45) Google Docs Voice Typing Getting More Accurate And Expanded Browser SupportGoogle Docs has offered voice typing on the web since 2015, and the input method is now set to pick up "enhancements" that will also improve automatic captions in Google Slides: 46) Google Maps No Longer Needs a Phone to Deliver Turn-by-Turn NavigationEver since the launch of Wear OS 3, Google has been making a solid return to form. For the most part, the Android smartwatch market was dwindling until Google decided they would change. So far, it is safe to say that the Wear OS 3 has been a success, and we are seeing more and more smartwatches running this new OS. Today, Google Maps has announced a handy new feature that will allow users to go for turn-by-turn navigation on their Wear OS 3 device without having a phone on them all the time: 47) OneNote For Mac Is Gaining Voice DictationThe Dictate feature that has been on Windows and the web is coming to OneNote for Mac. You can use the Dictate feature to break away from the keyboard, but keep the flow of your notes. The Dictate feature is an AI-backed set of voice commands to add, format, organize and edit your text. Dictate currently supports more than 50 languages. Getting started is easy, just follow these steps: 48) Seven Free Alternatives To The LastPass Password ManagerIf you're feeling like you want to move to a fully free (and hopefully fully secure) password manager, here are some possibilities: 49) Six Dots To Success: Recordings Now Available | The Braillists Foundation | YouTubeThank you to everyone who attended our events for World Braille Day. Recordings of all of the sessions of the Six Dots to Success conference are now available on the Sight and Sound YouTube Channel. You can find them in this playlist: 50) AIRA: New 2023 Retail Plans and Pricing Now AvailableDear Explorer. The 2023 Retail plans and pricing are now available. To design the 2023 plans, we examined actual call data and studied patterns of use from the last year. Our goal was to deliver a set of plans that align closely with how the majority of people use the service. Plans range in price and features to meet the variety of use cases our customers have demonstrated, from the basic to the complex. There are nine new plans ranging from 15 to 800 monthly minutes. The 2023 Retail Plans and Prices web page provides all of the details you'll need to understand the plan types: 51) Capturing The World Around You Through Audio — Introducing The BlindShell Classic 2 + ARxVisionAdding another choice to the BlindShell Classic 2. Announcing the launch of the ARxVision wearable device and app for the BlindShell Classic 2: 52) iOS 17 Coming Later This Year: Here's What to ExpectWhile there are still around five months remaining until Apple unveils iOS 17, we're already able to piece together a few details about the upcoming software update based on Apple's previous announcements and reported information: 53) NV Access In-Process For January 11th 2023https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-11th-january-2023/ 54) Access Ingenuity Winter 2023 Newsletterhttps://mailchi.mp/2db6a8eb09fe/winter-newsletter-20192444?e=90429c1885 55) Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled January / February 2023 Newsletterhttps://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDLIBRARY/bulletins/3410e52 56) Singapore Tech Pioneer Behind Sound Blaster Dies, Marking End Of Illustrious EraCreative Technology's founder and CEO Sim Wong Hoo not only helped put Singapore on the global technology map with its Sound Blaster audio cards, he also carved an era that encapsulated never-say-die entrepreneurship: ➜ Featured Podcast Episodes✍ Submit your adaptive technology-related Podcast Episode for consideration within this section using this form: https://www.toptechtidbits.com/submit-podcast-episode or locate "Podcast Episode Submission Form" within the main menu of the Top Tech Tidbits website.December 28th 2022 | That Real Blind Tech Show Episode 108: From George Lucas to Clingan, A Conversation with Joel Snyder About Audio DescriptionJoin us as we welcome in Dr. Joel Snyder to That Real Blind Tech show to discuss his career working in Audio Description, the ACB's Audio Description Project, and some laughs along the way: January 4th 2023 | Blind Centered Audio Description Chat: Blind Professionals in ADPrior to this live chat, we polled the AD Twitter Community to see which one of three pre-selected topics most interested the people... The winner... Blind professionals in the audio description business. Whether we're talking about narration, quality control, audio editing and writing, many want to know how they can get started. During this conversation we hear about the importance of having a foundational skill set and exactly how that goes beyond audio description: January 5th 2023 | CVS Pharmacy Spoken Rx | Hadley Presents: A Conversation with the ExpertsLearn how CVS pharmacy customers throughout the US can access a free service that reads aloud prescription medication information: January 8th 2023 | Blind Android Users Podcast Episode 109: CES 2023 And More News About Blind Shell 2 ClassicWe first get very big news from Blind Shell USA. We then reflect on the phones and other tech showed at CES 2023. For the app of the week, our listener submits a demo of an app called Smiling Minds which is a meditation and yoga app. This podcast episode can be found at: January 9th 2023 | That Real Blind Tech Show Episode 109: Aira Price Plan Changes First Reaction, And A Conversation With Aira Ceo Troy Otillio And Jeanine StanleyBrian and Allison are joined by friend of the podcast David Goldstein to discuss their initial thoughts on the new price plans announced by Aira. Brian is then joined by Troy Otillio, CEO of Aira, and Jeanine Stanley, Aira Social Media Manager. Troy and Jeanine discuss Aira's new price plans, why they are asking people to call customer care, and Aira moving forward: January 10th 2023 | Unmute Presents: Interview With Raz Mobility CEO, Robert Felgar — The Future of Accessible TelecommunicationsTune in to this week's episode of the Unmute Presents podcast! Marty Solo and Michael Babcock interview Robert Felgar, CEO of Raz Mobility. Discover the innovative Minivision2+ phone — a user-friendly, talking phone that meets all your telecommunications needs. Perfect for those who are visually impaired, the talking voice guide and large tactile buttons make it easy to navigate. Learn about the SmartVision3 too. Don't miss out! #RazMobility #UnmutePresents #Accessibility: January 11th 2023 | Eyes on Success Episode 2302: JAWS Evolves to Meet Changing NeedsIn this second of a two-part series, we talk about how the JAWS screen reader has had to adapt to advances in computer technology as well as to the evolving requirements of users. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with long time colleagues and friends Ted Henter, Eric Damery, and Glen Gordon as they reminisce about their contributions to accessibility: ➜ Featured Webinars, Training Courses and Events✍ Submit your adaptive technology-related Webinar, Training Course or Event for consideration within this section using this form: https://www.toptechtidbits.com/submit-event or locate "Webinar / Training Course Submission Form" within the main menu of the Top Tech Tidbits website.January 12th 2023 | The Many Faces of BARD4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/13 January 13th 2023 | Understanding Magnification for Mac | The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library11AM PT, 12PM MT, 1PM CT, 2PM ET, 7PM GMT January 14th 2023 | Accessible Origami Online and In Person | Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library10:30AM PT, 11:30AM MT, 12:30PM CT, 1:30PM ET, 6:30PM GMT January 18th 2023 | Resolution Solutions: Apps To Tap In 2023 | Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc.4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/19 January 18th 2023 | Special Needs Trusts: Planning For Your Future3:30PM PT, 4:30PM MT, 5:30PM CT, 6:30PM ET, 11:30PM GMT January 18th 2023 | How to Create Accessible Videos (Digital Accessibility Webinar) | Access Ingenuity10AM PT, 11AM MT, 12AM CT, 1PM ET, 6PM GMT January 19th 2023 | Coordinating Captioned Media For Your Campus: Learn from Others | Free Webinar | ATHEN12PM PT, 1PM MT, 2PM CT, 3PM ET, 8PM GMT January 19th 2023 | Top 5 Kiosk Application Tips to Make Your Self-Service Kiosk Accessible | TPGi9AM PT, 10AM MT, 11AM CT, 12PM ET, 5PM GMT January 24th 2023 | Smart Watches And Other Wearables | Tech It Out | Hadley5PM PT, 6PM MT, 7PM CT, 8PM ET, 1AM GMT on 1/25 January 25th 2023 | Procedural Safeguards and Parental Rights: New Webinar Series with Karen Mayer Cunningham | APH FamilyConnect4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/26 January 25th 2023 | Easy Portable Reading — The omniReader (ACVREP CE Approved, Assistive Technology Webinar) | Access Ingenuity10AM PT, 11AM MT, 12AM CT, 1PM ET, 6PM GMT January 26th 2023 | International Ally User Group Meeting7AM PT, 8AM MT, 9AM CT, 10AM ET, 3PM GMT January 31st 2023 | A Beginner's Guide to Inclusive UX Design9AM PT, 10AM MT, 11AM CT, 12PM ET, 5PM GMT February 1st 2023 | Lego Braille Bricks Live Session 5: School Aged Numeracy | APH8AM PT, 9AM MT, 10AM CT, 11AM ET, 4PM GMT February 7th 2023 | Health Care Decision Making, Advance Directives, and the MOLST Form | Zoom | For Residents of Maryland10AM PT, 11AM MT, 12PM CT, 1PM ET, 6PM GMT February 8th 2023 | Procedural Safeguards and Parental Rights: New Webinar Series with Karen Mayer Cunningham | APH FamilyConnect4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/26 February 11th 2023 | Maryland Accessible Telecommunications | Technology User Group | Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled (LBPD)7AM PT, 8AM MT, 9AM CT, 10AM ET, 3PM GMT February 15th 2023 | Giving Up Your Car Keys Is Not The End Of Your Independence | NFB of Maryland Senior Call4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 2/16 February 22nd 2023 | Procedural Safeguards and Parental Rights: New Webinar Series with Karen Mayer Cunningham | APH FamilyConnect4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/26 March 6th 2023 | Lego Braille Bricks Live Session 6: Daily Living Activities | APH8AM PT, 9AM MT, 10AM CT, 11AM ET, 4PM GMT March 8th 2023 | Procedural Safeguards and Parental Rights: New Webinar Series with Karen Mayer Cunningham | APH FamilyConnect4PM PT, 5PM MT, 6PM CT, 7PM ET, 12AM GMT on 1/26 March 11th 2023 | Using Garage Band App to Create a Song | Technology User Group | Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled (LBPD)7AM PT, 8AM MT, 9AM CT, 10AM ET, 3PM GMT March 13th 2023 through March 17th 2023 | 2023 38th Annual CSUN Assistive Technology ConferenceWelcome. Whether you have been attending the conference for years or are planning to attend your first, the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, also known as the CSUN Conference, is the ultimate community experience and the premier forum on technology for all persons with disabilities. For over 37 years, California State University, Northridge's Center on Disabilities has sponsored the conference, providing a platform for researchers, practitioners, educators, exhibitors and more from around the world, where they can share knowledge, innovations, and best practices to promote inclusion for all. Building on the momentum from the 2022 conference, exciting new plans are in the works to enhance the conference experience. We encourage you to join us in Anaheim, California in 2023, where attendees can attend Pre-Conference Workshops, the yearly Keynote Address, Featured Presentations, General Sessions, Sponsor Showcase Suites and the Exhibit Hall. We also continue developing new programming to build community and networking opportunities. Check back often or follow us on social media for the latest updates, details, and deadlines. For information on sponsor or exhibitor opportunities, please visit our Opportunities page or email us at conference@csun.edu 📧️. We can't wait until the CSUN Conference community is back together to learn, share and connect: March 15th 2023 and March 16th 2023 | 2023 3rd Annual Axe-Con | Building Accessible Experiences | The World's Largest Digital Accessibility ConferenceDeque Systems, the trusted leader in digital accessibility, has announced the third annual axe-con conference will return on March 15-16th, 2023. With the success of axe-con over the past two years, Deque will continue to host the conference as a free virtual event again next year. 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