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Author: Aaron Di Blasi

Top Tech Tidbits Surpasses 45,000 Weekly Readers, Backed by Independent LinkedIn Audience Verification

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.

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A New Website, A Redesigned Archive: 2008 to 2026: 19 Years of Access Technology News Now At Your Fingertips

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.

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Welcome Venngage: Accessibility-First Business Design, Built for People Who Aren’t Designers

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.

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Attention Sponsors: Past, Present and Future: Top Tech Tidbits Now Provides Verified Quarterly Audience Insight Reports via LinkedIn Matched Audiences

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for the Top Tech Tidbits weekly newsletter, announces the launch of independent, LinkedIn-verified Audience Insight reports, an answer to the question Sponsors have been asking him for nearly two decades: who, exactly, reads Top Tech Tidbits each week? On May 15, 2026, the publication uploaded a hashed copy of its email list to LinkedIn Matched Audiences. LinkedIn matched 38,910 of 45,776 subscribers against active member profiles, an 85% match rate well above LinkedIn’s published 30-60% B2B baseline. The new Audience Insights page publishes twelve full demographic panels (top job functions, seniority, industries, employers, geography, skills, and content interests) drawn from those verified profiles, with quarterly regenerations on the calendar to give Sponsors a continuing third-party view of audience composition over time.

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Welcome, Techopolis: Why Top Tech Tidbits’ Newest Sponsor Is One of the Most Important Indie Apple Studios in Access Tech Today

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher for Top Tech Tidbits, welcomes Techopolis to the publication’s Sponsor family effective May 1, 2026, and walks 45,000+ weekly readers through why this two-person, founder-financed Apple-platform studio belongs in their inbox. Di Blasi traces a fourteen-year track record from Michael Doise, the legally blind iOS and macOS developer behind VO Starter, ACB Link, NFB-NEWSLINE Mobile, PocketBraille, and the WayAround mobile apps, through Techopolis’s current product family, led by Perspective Intelligence, a private, on-device AI assistant for iPhone, iPad, and Mac built on Apple Foundation Models with Gemma fallback.

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Amazon Fire TV’s New Accessibility Campaign: “Built for How to Watch” (All 5 Videos + Links Inside)

Here, Aaron Di Blasi highlights Amazon Fire TV’s new “Built for How to Watch” accessibility campaign, arguing that accessibility only helps when people can actually discover and understand the features. He points readers to the main campaign video on the Fire TV storefront plus five YouTube videos designed to be easy to watch and share, positioning the campaign as a practical shift that treats accessibility like any other mainstream feature, not a hidden, niche setting.

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From Screen Readers to Conversation Partners: How Voice-First AI Could Soon Change Everything for Blind and Low-Vision People

Here, Aaron Di Blasi argues that voice-first AI is nearing an “interface shift” that could be as consequential for blind and low-vision people as the arrival of modern screen readers: instead of painstakingly navigating screen-based obstacle courses (unlabeled buttons, broken forms, CAPTCHAs, kiosk-first workflows), users could increasingly express intent through natural conversation and get outcomes directly. He defines a true “conversation partner” as fast, full-duplex voice interaction that supports interruption and redirection, plus practical layers like transcription, translation, emotional prosody, and (with camera/broadcast modes) the ability to interpret what’s on a screen or in the environment, turning accessibility from “reading interfaces” into “conversing with systems.”

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PWD Media Co-op Membership Now Open To All Sponsors of Top Tech Tidbits And Access Information News

Here, Aaron Di Blasi, PR Director for AT-Newswire and publisher of Top Tech Tidbits and Access Information News, explains that the Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Media Distribution Co-op is a collaboration of blind/low-vision and broader disability community leaders, businesses, and organizations that share their verified social media distribution networks to amplify reach into PWD audiences. He says the Co-op began around November 2024 with Di Blasi, Donna J. Jodhan, and Dr. Kirk Adams as a practical way to get each post in front of more verified PWD readers, and it has since grown to 15 leaders collectively reaching more than 193,000 verified PWD readers across 41 channels.

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Top Tech Tidbits Launches YouTube Directory

Discover the Top Tech Tidbits YouTube Directory, featuring a curated selection of channels that provide high quality access technology news, trends, product reviews, how-to guides, tutorials, and expert discussions. Submit your channel for free. Stay up to date by following the Channels listed in this guide.

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