[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, January 18, 2018 - Volume 645

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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, January 18, 2018 - Volume 645

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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1A) Joseph Lee continues to add to his comprehensive new tutorial on NVDA. Now we can listen to over three hours on all the NVDA preferences. The whole series, and more tutorials, is here:
http://bit.ly/2EU6z0M 

1B) Several announcements about this tutorial series, and other interesting related matters, are in this post:
http://bit.ly/2DitrWI 

2) Firefox version 58 is due to be released on 23 January 2018. This post explains that it should improve functionality greatly with NVDA, and also discusses the JAWS interface to Firefox:
http://bit.ly/2mPOidC 

3) We now have a pretty accurate transcript of the podcast "Reach Out and Touch the New Braille Features in iOS 11:"
http://bit.ly/2FOXF5a 

4) If you're running Chrome OS and using the ChromeVox screen reader, you can now use Google Sheets with a Braille display to read and edit cell contents and navigate the sheet. Support for other operating systems is said to be coming:
http://bit.ly/2mSNTqP 

5) The iOS11 edition of Shelly Brisbin's book 'iOS Access for All' is a 700-page book covering all the accessibility features of iOS11, including use of mainstream apps and reviews of other accessible apps. It is available for $19.50 in EPUB, PDF and from iBooks:
http://bit.ly/2mI3zfF 

6) The Braigo Accessibility Companion is a free iOS app that extracts text from pictures for reading and identification:
http://bit.ly/2DLja6f 

7) This Adobe blog post is called "Accessibility in Acrobat DC: Ensure the Accuracy of a Tagged PDF:"
https://adobe.ly/2DHea2t 

8) The new Section 508 guidelines take effect on 18 January 2018, and this article, the second in a series with a link to the first one, explains:
http://bit.ly/2mQYUc0 

9) On the subject of web accessibility, this YouTube video is called "Accessibility Testing with the NVDA Screenreader:"
http://bit.ly/2DK1QP6 

10) There is an update to KNFBReader for Android:
http://bit.ly/2Dh4bQF 

11) Here's a sensible-looking article on keeping iPhone batteries alive as long as possible:
http://bit.ly/2DqHuN2 

12) Talking about batteries, PC Mag brings us "Charging Your Phone Overnight: Battery Myths Debunked:"
http://bit.ly/2mF0YTI 

13A) While we don't usually mention local activities, this one covers two localities. Sendero Group is testing an indoor wayfinding system in Chicago and Baltimore. They are looking for testers. For Chicago information:
http://bit.ly/2mRL8G7 

13B) For Baltimore information:
http://bit.ly/2BbK2cL 

14) Dolphin Computer Access has made it possible to use its EasyReader app for iOS and Android to read documents and books from the web, as well as your own stored documents:
http://bit.ly/2DiTn48 

15) And finally, Eyes on Success #1803 bears the title "Building Electronics Projects:"
http://bit.ly/2p6t5h5 

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