Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 9, 2015 – Volume 504

The Week’s News in Access Technology

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News

1A.) Triple Click Home on the Apple Watch

This is quite the week for opinions, and counter opinions. Mike Calvo and other members of the Serotalk Podcast team got together and covered a variety of topics, including the likely failure of the forthcoming Apple Watch:
http://tripleclickhome.com/2015/04/01/triple-click-home-episode-37-watch-for-aliens/

1B.) The Blind Educator doesn’t agree with everything in the podcast

http://blindeducator.com/2015/04/08/new-age-or-revival-of-an-old-era-serotalk/

2A.) Accessibility at Microsoft: More Challenges Than Victories

Meanwhile, the April 2015 issue of The Braille Monitor contains an article entitled “Accessibility at Microsoft: More Challenges than Victories:”
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm15/bm1504/bm150403.htm

2B.) Chris Hofstader Takes the Author to Task

And our reliable voice of independent thought, Chris Hofstader, while agreeing with portions of the article, takes the author and the organization he represents to task for most of it:
http://chrishofstader.com/accessibility-and-nfbcs-more-questions-than-results/

3.) Articles on the Pros and Cons of Guide Dogs

Of late there have been a number of articles discussing the pros and cons of Guide Dog use. Here are a few to get you involved in the conversation, if you’d like to be:

4.) Microsoft Sam in the War Against Mac Alex

Leaving all this seriousness behind for just a moment, somebody out there has both excellent creativity and audio editing talent and too much time on their hands. The result is “Microsoft Sam in the War against Mac Alex Part 1:”
http://dl.twup.me/1428086811/Microsoft%20Sam%20in%20the%20War%20against%20Mac%20Alex%20Part%201.mp3

5.) CAVI Course on Microsoft Excel

CAVI will offer a four-week, $80 course on Microsoft Excel starting on May 5 or 6 depending on where you are in the world:
http://wiki.cucat.org/index.php?n=Main.Excel

6.) Video Magnifiers: An Expert Leads You Through the Maze

From the Vision Loss and Personal Recovery Blog comes the informative article “Video Magnifiers: An Expert Leads You Through The Maze:”
http://www.visionlossandpersonalrecovery.com/video-magnifiers-an-expert-leads-you-through-the-maze/

7A.) Hadley iFocus Videos for VoiceOver

On the Hadley Instructional Videos page you can find around 40 iFocus videos for learning to use VoiceOver on the iPhone:
http://www.hadley.edu/InstructionalVideos.asp

7B.) iFocus Video on Dictation

Unfortunately, their latest iFocus video hasn’t hade it to that page yet. It’s viewable on YouTube, and concerns the dictation function:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDKyhh-5Vs&feature=youtu.be

8A.) Tek Talk on the Blaze ET

Learn about the new Blaze ET from HIMS on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 14 April at 00:00:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

8B.) Teaching Tips from TVI’s for TVI’s

Meanwhile, HIMS’ next webinar is called “Teaching Tips from TVI’s (Teachers of the Visually Impaired) for TVI’s,” and will be held on GMT Tuesday, 14 April at 19:00 GMT:
http://hims-inc.com/webinars/

9.) Leasey 1.1 Update

Accessible Spotify, iTunes and Facebook are Now Available in the Leasey 1.1 Update:
http://www.leaseycentral.com/leaseyupdate #Leasey

10.) Easy Table Navigator Add-On for NVDA

If you have wanted a layer just for navigating table cells similar to the table layer offered by other screen readers, it is now possible in NVDA with the Easy Table Navigator Add-On:
http://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/easyTableNavigator.en.html

11.) Five Years of the iPad

The iPad has been among us for five years now, and this fact figures prominently in the Blind Bargains Weekly Apple Rundown:
http://blindbargains.com/b/12596

12.) Beep Baseball and Cricket for the Blind

Eyes on Success has completed a two-part series on sports. Episode 1514 dealt with beep baseball, while 1515 concerns cricket for the blind:
http://eyesonsuccess.net

13A.) 22 Point is a new venture aiming to create accessible apps

http://www.22point.com.au/

13B.) Their first Android game is called RapiTap

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.twentytwopoint.rapitap

13C.) And here is a podcast about it

http://www.22point.com.au/apps.html#audio

14.) The Guide to Using Android

The “Guide to Using Android” is an e-book by Aaron Linson, available for $3.95 through Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Using-Android-Aaron-Linson-ebook/dp/B00UUN1ZPG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428460360&sr=8-1&keywords=the+guide+to+using+android

Wrapping up with a couple of podcasts:

15A.) Maccessibility 81 is out

http://maccessibility.net/2015/04/03/mrtp-81-the-hearts-arent-labeled/

15B.) And Accessible Devices #43 runs for over 20 minutes

http://accessible-devices.com/a11y-devices-podcast-43/

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