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Here Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, takes readers inside OneCourt, the Seattle company whose “tactile broadcast” finally lets blind and low‑vision fans follow a live game in real time, by touch. Writing as both an engineer and a publisher, he walks through how a tablet‑sized haptic device taps the official tracking data the NFL, NBA, and MLB already collect, translates it in the cloud into OneCourt’s proprietary “haptic language,” and delivers it as vibrations a fan reads with their fingertips, paired with synchronized audio for the score, names, and outcomes. What earns his engineer’s respect is the restraint of the design: OneCourt’s choice to license the leagues’ existing data rather than build its own camera systems, the decision that keeps the device affordable, scalable, and effectively plug‑and‑play.

From there the article gets concrete, what the device actually feels like in play (a pitch crossing the strike zone, a fast break moving under the palms), why blind sports fans have wanted exactly this for years, and how far OneCourt has already come, from Super Bowl LX to more than ten professional teams. Di Blasi lays out the cost (free to fans inside the arena, and a $369 at‑home tablet with a $29.99‑per‑month All‑Access subscription shipping in December 2026), points out that anyone with a smartphone can now feel the game at home, and shares the news that OneCourt has come aboard as a Top Tech Tidbits sponsor, helping make free weekly access‑technology news possible for the newsletter’s 46,000‑plus readers. His conclusion, as engineer and publisher alike: OneCourt’s tagline, “Sports Are For Everyone,” is exactly right.

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces that the world’s leading not-for-profit access technology publication has surpassed 45,000 weekly readers, roughly 5,000 more than just one year ago. This time the milestone arrives independently verified: a May 15, 2026 upload of the publication’s SHA-256-hashed subscriber list to LinkedIn Campaign Manager’s Matched Audiences tool returned an 85% match, 38,910 of 45,776 subscribers, well above LinkedIn’s published 30 to 60% B2B baseline. A full twelve-panel demographic breakdown lives at https://toptechtidbits.com/audience/ and is refreshed every quarter.

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces that the full Top Tech Tidbits newsletter archive is now publicly available on the redesigned WordPress.com website at https://toptechtidbits.com/newsletters/. Every weekly issue from January 2008 to today is live and browsable in one place, by year, a 19-year span that, until now, stopped at 2018 on the public-facing site. The newly restored 10 additional calendar years (about 520 weekly issues) cover access technology news, tips, walk-throughs, sponsor announcements, and industry coverage from 2008 through 2017.

Here Aaron Di Blasi, publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, takes readers inside Venngage, the Toronto-based, bootstrapped visual-communications SaaS that has spent over a decade building accessibility into the design canvas itself rather than bolting it on after export. Where Canva went mainstream and consumer, Venngage went deep on the business documents compliance teams actually procure, accessible PDFs, forms, infographics, reports, presentations, and white papers, built by people whose job title does not contain the word “designer.” The educational core of the piece is a five-feature walkthrough: a built-in WCAG 2.1 AA checker that runs mid-canvas rather than after export; PDF/UA export with semantic tag preservation, so JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver parse the file as authored; AI alt text and AI chart interpretation native to the editor; a color-blindness simulator with six deficiency filters; and published VPATs aligned to WCAG 2.1 AA, a combination most platforms in this category do not offer.