[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 16, 2019 - Volume 707

Thu May 16 08:02:03 UTC 2019

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 16, 2019 - Volume 707

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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1) This Author, and the Nearly New Book, on Eyes on Success
Yours Truly (Dean Martineau) is featured on Eyes on Success Episode #1920, discussing my forthcoming book, the Windows Keyboard Power User Guide. Unfortunately, neither the book nor the website are ready for public consumption. The information in the podcast is good, and the book will be (at least I think so) but stay tuned here for more news:
http://bit.ly/2p6t5h5 

2) Accessible Books from Libraries
This cogent article discusses many of the ways for getting electronic materials from libraries, giving specific instructions for several:
http://bit.ly/2LKCKav 

3) Joseph Rotor Scholarship
A one-time $5,000 scholarship is available for a business student from NIB:
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4) Audio Description on Tek Talk
Hear about the present and future of audio description on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 00:00:
http://bit.ly/2M464U2 

5) New iPad Podcast
Adapt is a podcast where two iPad-first users challenge each other to explore new ways of doing things with their favorite device:
http://bit.ly/2EdGUkO 

6) NVDA Survey
NV Access has made a very short survey to get feedback from users:
http://bit.ly/2JHD5bb 

7) Android Demo Coming Up, Past Demo Recordings Available
David Woodbridge will be recording a demo of Android navigation on Friday. That recording will presumably be up soon, and here are lots of others:
http://bit.ly/2Um1ghe 

8) My Favorite Way to Convert Videos to Audio
The Web-Friendly Help Site introduces Pontes Media Downloader, a free program for saving and converting videos:
http://bit.ly/2Ht6cwf 

9) FSCast 170, July 2019 Convention Deals, Blind Golf
Vispero is already telling us about its deals for the July 2019 Blindness Conventions!
http://bit.ly/2YudLJT 

10) Alt Text, The Ultimate Guide
The GTT program has forwarded this 2017 post about Alt text:
http://bit.ly/2w3EZLb 

11) Over 60 Events Scheduled for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
This issue of Tidbits is published on Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and here's what is going on:
http://bit.ly/2W1cQDl 

12) Which of Drupal and Wordpress is the most accessible content management system?
This podcast, with transcript, adds to this conversation:
http://bit.ly/2JnlW7u 

13) Lots of Google News on BBQ #180
This Blind Bargains Qast focuses mainly on Google:
http://bit.ly/2VpiN8M 

14) May 2019 AccessWorld
This AccessWorld features reviews of the Voice Dream Scanner app, and of two more iOS job search apps, SimplyHired and CareerBuilder, among other items:
http://bit.ly/2Q4DPse 

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