[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 14, 2019 - Volume 731

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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 14, 2019 - Volume 731   Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 14, 2019 - Volume 731 The Week's News in Adaptive Technology A Flying Blind, LLC Publication http://www.flying-blind.com/ You have received this email from Flying Blind, LLC because you are subscribed to receive Flying Blind, LLC Publications. To ensure that you continue to receive Flying Blind, LLC Publications please add the following two email addresses to your Address Book, Email Contact List, Trusted Sender's List, and/or Safe Sender's List today: enews at flying-blind.ccsend.com and enews at flying-blind.com. Read this Volume of Top Tech Tidbits on the web, with full, un-shortened links at: http://www.flying-blind.com/tidbits2019/11142019/index.html. This Week's Featured Advertisement: Come Visit Us Next Week at The 22nd Annual Accessing Higher Ground Conference! 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Rolando 1) Technology in November Braille Monitor From the November 2019 issue of the Braille Monitor comes an accurate article about the status of the Orbit Reader, another about the Canute 360, an NLS update including plans for their Braille reading device, and an article about the DAISY Consortium: http://bit.ly/2XmTsPv 2) November 2019 AccessWorld The November 2019 issue of AccessWorld includes coverage about iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, a discussion about the accessibility of shopping the Cole and PetCo sites, the 2019 AccessWorld Holiday Gift guide, and more: http://bit.ly/2qUNfha 3) TextNav from WebFriendlyHelp Last week's WebFriendlyHelp post concerns this NVDA add-on: http://bit.ly/2Xcyxyl 4) JAWS Place Markers on WebFriendlyHelp This week's post teaches the use of this valuable feature for finding important spots in web pages or Word documents: http://bit.ly/2rKkBjx 5) WAVE Web Accessibility Tool Updated WebAIM has updated this tool which can be used by web designers and testers: http://bit.ly/32NZlGe 6) Toolbox Pro for Shortcuts on the App Store This free app with in-app purchases may add useful features to iPhone and iPad: https://apple.co/2qfmkgj 7) Mosen at Large #11 Jonathan Mosen continues to do weekly podcasts, with the technology contents of this one including discussion of iOS 13.2 and Bluetooth hearing aids, accessibility of LinkedIn, and more: http://bit.ly/33XZXKI 8) Windows Logo Key and Search This short GTT post is a reminder of some keyboard shortcuts: http://bit.ly/376iGFW 9) MRTP #184 Another edition of the Maccessibility Roundtable: http://bit.ly/32LsfXN 10) Antad Podcast #9 This one keeps us up to date on Android news, from the participants of a very well-run Android for the Blind mailing list: http://bit.ly/33MkZvY 11) Microsoft Diversity and Inclusion Report Here is a link to a PDF of this report: http://bit.ly/2Xd5ZVh 12) Spectrum on Tek Talk Accessibility services provided by Spectrum will be the theme for tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 01:00: http://bit.ly/2M464U2 13) Canute 360 on Eyes on Success The Canute 360 has two mentions this week, in AccessWorld and also in Eyes on Success #1946: http://bit.ly/2p6t5h5 ****************************************************** Flying Blind, LLC Highlights: ****************************************************** 1.) 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