<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, Andy,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a great list. I liked your presentation although I have to confess that my grandchildren were over so I couldn’t give it the attentionit warranted. But it will be nice to have the list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 22, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Andy via NJTechDiv <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" class="">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all! Below, I feature a list of resources. Joe or Linda, if you could forward this to the distribution list, I'd greatly appreciate it. We had a great convention! I look forward to next year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Thursday, 19 November, I gave a presentation on a list of resources that are useful for all things technology. Below you will find links and explanations to these resources. This list includes email lists, websites, and podcasts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.05; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.008em; font-family: "SF Pro Display", "SF Pro Icons", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Email Lists</h1></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are many vibrant, active email lists/communities that are useful for assistive technology. The <a href="https://groups.io/g/PhonesForTheBlind" class="">PhonesForTheBlind</a> group discusses all things phone-related. This group discusses smartphones, useful apps, and phone accessibility.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Similarly, the <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/viphone" class="">VIPhone</a> group also focuses on these topics. Note that this list in particular receives a great deal of traffic. People ask and answer questions about iOS devices, Android devices, and apps for both platforms. Feature phones occasionally also get discussed here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Android users in particular might be interested in the <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/eyes-free-dev" class="">Eyes-free Programming and development</a> group. It's focused on Android developers wanting to make apps accessible is sometimes gets technical, but Google also posts announcements to this list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The NFBNet network of email lists offers several technology-related lists. Among these is <a href="https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/electronics-talk_nfbnet.org" class="">Electronics Talk,</a> which mainly focuses on home appliances and "Internet of things" devices, such as smart microwaves, ovens, speakers, etc. People post questions, comments, and accessibility issues/impressions concerning these types of devices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NFBNet also offers an email list called <a href="https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org" class="">NFBCS,</a> which focuses on computer science and computer programming-related topics. List subscribers post questions and comments about programming languages, accessibility of code editors, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NFBNet also offers <a href="https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-science_nfbnet.org" class="">NFB-Science,</a> which focuses on science and engineering. Discussions focus on accessibility and education of all things science. During this convention, we had a presentation from Independence Science; their products have been brought up before.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The NFB's structured discovery method produces very positive results in all areas of blindness skills training. For assistive technology trainers looking to implement this method of instruction, you might want to look into NFBNet's <a href="https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/trainer-talk_nfbnet.org" class="">Trainer-Talk</a> email list. Instructors ask questions and generally communicate with each other about how they implement and instruct assistive technology topics. It's a valuable resource for instructors.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For anyone wishing to buy and sell items, you should check out the <a href="https://groups.io/g/BlindAds" class="">BlindAds</a> group. List subscribers post items that they are wishing to sell. Products posted include Braille displays, note-taking devices, and many others. Note that, although this list is focused on blindness-specific items, people also post Braille books, games, and other devices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For anyone using a Mac, you might be interested in the <a href="https://www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind" class="">Mac4TheBlind</a> email list. Questions about VoiceOver, Zoom, and other Mac accessibility features get asked and answered by a knowledgeable user base of blind Mac users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you're interested in gaming, the <a href="https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers" class="">BlindGamers</a> list is worth subscribing to. Audio games and video games get discussed for all platforms. If you have questions, comments, tips, tricks, cheats, etc about gaming, then this is the place to go.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For general Windows 10 questions, the <a href="https://win10.groups.io/g/win10" class="">Win10</a> email list is a great community. A knowledgeable group of Windows users can answer all questions about Windows 10, regardless of the screen reader you're using.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To wrap up the section on email lists, check out the <a href="https://techtalk.groups.io/g/main" class="">Tech Talk</a> group. This is useful for general technology questions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.05; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.008em; font-family: "SF Pro Display", "SF Pro Icons", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Websites</h1></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are a ton of active websites that are useful for assistive technology users. Some of these contain information, others are updated very frequently.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The <a href="http://applevis.com/" class="">AppleVis</a> website is very useful for everything Apple and blindness. Whether you have an iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, or Apple Watch, there is valuable information here. The editors post articles about mainstream Apple topics, but users of the site can ask questions, post their accessibility impressions of apps, and much more.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Similarly, <a href="https://www.inclusiveandroid.com/" class="">Inclusive Android</a> is a similar resource for Android users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a terrific magazine called <a href="https://www.afb.org/aw" class="">AccessWorld.</a> Here, articles are posted about all things assistive technology. Reviews of hardware, software and accessibility are popular topics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://hadley.edu/" class="">Hadley</a> is a fantastic resource for blindness skills learning. Their assistive technology courses are top-notch, and go into great detail about Office, Android, iOS, and many other topics. Similarly, they also offer podcasts and other resources.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you're looking for reviews and technology news, <a href="https://coolblindtech.com/" class="">Cool Blind Tech</a> is a great place to go. They interview people about assistive technology, post detailed product reviews, and have lengthy discussions about assistive technology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another resource worth looking at is <a href="http://blindbargains.com/" class="">BlindBargains.</a> Operated by <a href="http://atguys.com/" class="">the ATGuys,</a> they post detailed articles about technology, deals, and other items of interest to the blind community. BlindBargains also maintains a very informative podcast. ATGuys is a small business offering assistive technology at great prices. They sell the Orbit Writer, the Orbit Reader, various types of headphones, USB hubs, and other awesome products.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another small business offering electronics at great prices is <a href="https://talkingmp3players-com.3dcartstores.com/" class="">Talking MP3 Players</a> (also known as Accessible Electronics). Their focus is on easy-to-use electronics. They offer the Victor Stream, talking tablets, headsets, speakers, and other items.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A website known as <a href="https://liveaccessible.com/" class="">Live Accessible</a> maintains many articles of usefulness to blind people. They have a list of resources, and short explanations on how to use built-in Windows accessibility features.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A small business from the UK, known as <a href="http://www.hartgen.org/" class="">Hartgen Consultancy,</a> offers many training courses and JAWS scripts for sale. Brian Hartgen is the maintainer of Leasey, J-Say, and J-Dictate. He also maintains scripts for Zoom. If you're looking for JAWS training, Brian might be worth a look.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To round out this section, I want to bring to your attention a great resource to Mac users known as <a href="http://maccessibility.net/" class="">Maccessibility.</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""> Maintained by expert blind Mac users, they post lengthy, detailed articles on how to use Mac functions. If you're a Mac user, you'll find this very useful.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><h1 style="margin: 0.1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 40px; line-height: 1.05; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: 0.008em; font-family: "SF Pro Display", "SF Pro Icons", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Podcasts</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">I want to bring to your attention some great podcasts about both assistive and mainstream technology. Podcasts are usually delivered as audio (though they can be video), and are updated regularly. Content is automatically delivered to you. You need a podcast client such as Apple Podcasts, Downcast, Overcast, Juice, or Winamp to get episodes delivered to you. The Victor Stream Second Generation and the Victor Trek can also do this. It's possible to manually check for episodes if you aren't interested in using a podcast client.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A podcast known as <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1163732" class="">Blind Tech Guys</a> mainly focuses on mobile phone topics. Nimer Jaber, Warren Carr, and Marco Curralejo discuss Android and iOS-related assistive technology news, apps, and accessibility.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ACB Radio maintains a podcast called <a href="https://mainmenu.pinecast.co/" class="">Main Menu.</a> Started in 1999, it's a monthly podcast about technology from a blindness perspective. Highly-regarded, this podcast is a must-listen to if you're interested in blindness. This past month, for example, they talked all about the new features of JAWS 2021.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jonathan Mosen was the founder of ACB Radio. He then went onto work at HumanWare and Freedom Scientific. He's now the CEO of Workbridge, an organization in New Zealand. He operates a weekly podcast called <a href="https://mosen.org/mosenatlarge/" class="">Mosen At Large.</a> Because he worked in assistive technology for so long, the podcast is skewed towards technology, but that's by no means the only topic focus on. Recent episodes have featured guide dogs, the 2020 Election, voting systems, a review of the MANTIS Q40 Braille display, and smart canes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Blind Abilities offers a podcast called <a href="https://blindabilities.com/?p=6200" class="">TechAbilities.</a> Though it's only updated occasionally, it can be useful for iOS users.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Freedom Scientific offers <a href="https://blog.freedomscientific.com/fscast/" class="">FSCast,</a> a podcast focusing exclusively on their products. They talk about tips on effectively using JAWS, webinars, interviews, and demonstrations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To round this out, I want to mention <a href="http://twit.tv/" class="">TWiT.</a> TWiT is a network of mainstream podcasts that doesn't focus at all on assistive technology; rather, they focus on everything mainstream. They offer a podcast on computer security, they have podcasts on Android, Mac, iPads, iPhones, Macs, Windows, and many other topics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope you find these resources useful. There's a lot of great info here, so check out these valuable resources and learn!</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">NJTechDiv mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:NJTechDiv@nfbnet.org" class="">NJTechDiv@nfbnet.org</a><br class="">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/njtechdiv_nfbnet.org<br class="">To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NJTechDiv:<br class="">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/njtechdiv_nfbnet.org/choirnfb%40gmail.com<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>