[Njtechdiv] Fwd: Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Volume 611

Thu May 18 14:50:38 UTC 2017

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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This Week's Tidbits is being brought to you on this Sixth Annual 
celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Learn more at:
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1A) "Ten Thousand Steps, Cane Not Included (10KSTEPS)" is Anna Dresner's 
new National Braille Press Guide to Fitness Tech for Blind Users. The 
book costs $12 in paper Braille or downloadable formats, and $14.50 if 
supplied on a USB drive. If you buy the book before the end of July, you 
can enter to receive a free Fitbit Flex 2:
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1B) You can hear about the book on Episode #35 of The Blind Side Podcast 
(MP3):
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2) Sero subscribers who are Alexa users can now add a skill, free for 
the present, to have Alexa play their favorite Serotek audio content:
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3) Here is a good summary of "How to Apply for Social Security 
Disability Benefits with Vision Loss:"
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4) Voting closes at the end of the day on Friday 19 May 2017 for this 
year's inductees in the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame:
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5) AppleVis informs us that, finally, "DeafBlind Individuals Now Have a 
Way to Use Text Relay on iOS With Braille:"
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6) Here we have "Accessibility Review of Samsung Galaxy S7 and S8:"
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7) While we're mentioning Android, Aaron Linson gives us a podcast 
tutorial on editing text with an Android device:
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8) The May 2017 issue of The Braille Monitor contains a good basic 
introduction on how to go about navigating web pages:
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9) An upgrade to OneNote for iOS has recently appeared, with 
accessibility improvements. OneNote has recently become usable by the 
blind, and this poignant blog post is entitled "How Microsoft's 
accessible OneNote helps me to manage a medical crisis:"
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10A) The Interactive Accessibility Podcast (IAP) is an entertaining 
approach to accessibility. The first episode is about flying cars and 
people with disabilities. The episode to appear as this Tidbits issue 
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that is what 18 May is:
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10B) The company will be tweeting hourly Global Accessibility Day trivia at:
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11) Tek Talk will interview Janet Ingber about her latest book on using 
the Mac on GMT Tuesday, 23 May at 00:00:
http://bit.ly/1MqEtXv

12) The Our Space Our Place Coding Camp, for people aged 14-21 years 
old, taking place from 10-14 July in Cambridge, MA, has two spaces for 
students to take part remotely:
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13) The May 2017 issue of AccessWorld includes book reviews of the 
Abundant Bookshelf and of Getting Started with Android, Update on Amazon 
Accessibility and Using the NVDA Screen Reader with Kindle for PC, A 
Tour of Apple's iOS and tvOS TV App, Plus Remote Options for the Apple 
TV, and more:
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14A) In a development which will doubtless be the topic of an 
AccessWorld article soon, the venerable Window-Eyes screen reader is 
officially being discontinued. Several screen readers battled for 
supremacy in North America at the end of the last century and the 
beginning of this one, and now JAWS is the only one still standing. Here 
is the official FAQ about the offers VFO is making to Window-Eyes users:
http://bit.ly/2pN3U4X

14B) This is an interesting post on the topic from Cool Blind Tech:
http://bit.ly/2qU45eW

14C) And for some nostalgia, here is a text collection of articles about 
Window-Eyes and by Window-Eyes staff from many years back:
http://bit.ly/2pVCiqC

15) NVDACon takes place via the Internet this weekend, and a member of 
the Google Accessibility team will be among the speakers, adding an 
extra dimension to the event:
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16) And finally, the Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired is the 
focus of Eyes on Success Episode #1721:
http://bit.ly/2p6t5h5

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