[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, October 3, 2019 - Volume 725

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Rolando 1) Historic Blind Bargains Qast #193 Historic, because yours truly (Dean Martineau) made my first appearance on the show to discuss Windows Keyboard Power User Guide and Top Tech Tidbits, among other things. You will also find lots of Amazon coverage and the week's news: http://bit.ly/2n4y8jP 2) NV Access In Process 1 October 2019 Learn about the beta of NVDA 2019.2.1 to fix some difficulties, updates to the for-sale documentation, and more: http://bit.ly/2n5h6Ch 3) WebAIM 2019 Screen Reader Survey Results This survey had more respondents outside North America than previous surveys, thus providing better representation of the global screen reader user audience. NVDA now shows as having more users than JAWS: http://bit.ly/2Yys53N 4) Yahoo Finance App Makes Charts Accessible To The Blind This feature is also available generally in iOS 13. Blind people can gain much more from graphs thanks to these innovations: http://bit.ly/2pwUoDW 5) Tech Talk: Amazon Special In Episode #296 of RNIB Tech talk comes coverage of Amazon's 15 new devices: http://bit.ly/2pv0moJ 6) Amazon's Big Announcements For Blind People this Double Tap blog explains about a few of the devices and their benefits: http://bit.ly/2o3iBkG 7) 10 Weirdest Things You Can Make Amazon Echo Do Here's a CNET article to complement all of these Amazon updates: https://cnet.co/2pwYqw5 8) iOS 13.1 Reviewed On That Blind Tech Show The hosts talk about the new iOS pros and cons: http://bit.ly/2o3iQw6 9) Bookshare Has Delivered 15 Million Books This blog post celebrates the milestone and talks of things to come: http://bit.ly/2pwYWKx 10) Scanning and Reading Apps by SmartLife Tech Cast This CNIB podcast discusses the past and present of reading and scanning apps: http://bit.ly/2oHcu5y 11) OrCam on Tek Talk Hear about the OrCam MyEye 2 wearable artificial intelligence device for people with vision loss on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday 8 October at 00:00. http://bit.ly/2M464U2 12) CAVI Back with Python and Linux Courses The Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired will offer courses in Python Fundamentals and Linux Fundamentals in 2020. 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