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One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can FeelA fan sits in the stands at a baseball game, both palms resting flat on a OneCourt haptic tablet, feeling every pitch as it happens.

One Small Device, Staggering Engineering: How OneCourt Compresses a Live Stadium Into a Tablet Blind Fans Can Feel

Published June 13, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

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.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Upload Files To OneDrive Online With JAWSAn image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Upload Files To OneDrive Online With JAWS

Published May 28, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based storage where you can save, access, edit, and manage files from any computer or mobile device. You can access it online by visiting OneDrive.com and signing into your Microsoft account. When navigating OneDrive online, it often helps to turn off the JAWS Virtual PC Cursor for many tasks so you can navigate the page much like you would the OneDrive desktop app; however, when uploading a file, turning this cursor on makes the page easier to navigate by enabling you to use Quick Navigation keys. You can toggle the Virtual PC Cursor on or off by pressing INSERT+Z if using Desktop keyboard layout, or CAPS LOCK+Z if using Laptop layout.

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JAWS Power Tip: How To Use JAWS Smart Glance Highlights to Quickly Locate Important Text on a Web PageAn image showing the JAWS screen reader logo on a computer monitor, featuring a stylized blue shark with sound waves next to the word JAWS. A software box labeled JAWS Screen Reader is positioned beside the monitor. To the right, a bright yellow speech bubble with black text reads 'Power Tips', surrounded by decorative lines and shapes on a white background.

JAWS Power Tip: How To Use JAWS Smart Glance Highlights to Quickly Locate Important Text on a Web Page

Published May 21, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

Smart Glance highlights in JAWS are visually distinctive pieces of text on a web page, such as bold, colored, or uniquely formatted content that stands out from the rest. JAWS detects these highlights to help you quickly find important information that might not be marked as a heading or link. This feature is especially useful for catching key points, warnings, or visually emphasized content that could otherwise be missed.

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Welcome, Accessible Data: How Top Tech Tidbits’ Newest Sponsor Is Showing the World What an Accessible Survey Actually Looks LikeDark-themed graphic featuring a rounded blue and purple abstract shape on the left with a simplified human figure icon, alongside large text reading accessible surveys and smaller subtitle a survey tool for everyone in light teal; on the right, a larger blue organic shape contains an illustration of diverse people interacting around a large digital survey interface with charts, icons, and images, suggesting collaboration and inclusive data collection.

Welcome, Accessible Data: How Top Tech Tidbits’ Newest Sponsor Is Showing the World What an Accessible Survey Actually Looks Like

Published May 21, 2026 by Top Tech Tidbits

Top Tech Tidbits Publisher Aaron Di Blasi welcomes Accessible Data, the London-based, IDA-co-designed, UN-trusted survey platform led by co-founder and CEO Jerry Nicholson, to the Top Tech Tidbits Sponsor family. He walks readers through what makes their work different from every survey tool that has ever made you want to close the tab, who already trusts them with the data that shapes policy, and how Dr. Kirk Adams brought Jerry into the Top Tech Tidbits orbit.

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