Category: Publisher Updates

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.

Both Top Tech Tidbits Sponsors and Content Contributors alike can now connect their very own Google Analytics account to the AI assistant they already use, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other, and simply ask, in plain English, how much traffic we send them. It all starts from a single link on our analytics page. Your assistant reads that link, walks you through a one-time setup of about five minutes on a computer using a free, no-code connector, and from that point on you can ask from any device, including your phone. The numbers stay entirely inside your own analytics: we grant access to nothing, and we see none of your data. Claude works on every plan, including the free tier; the other assistants offer a fuller path on their paid plans. No spreadsheets, no dashboards, and no analytics degree required. What follows is the story of why this matters so much to me, and exactly how to put it to work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Top Tech Tidbits Publisher Updates for September 18, 2025.

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