Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 20, 2014 - Volume 484
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) This article in the November 2014 issue of The Braille Monitor discusses the pros and cons of different models for selling adaptive technology:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm14/bm1410/bm141006.htm

2) National Braille Press has a new $9 book available in many formats: "Out and About: Our Favorite Travel Apps," featuring 24 apps related to various aspects of travel:
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/APPSOUT.html

3) The Magnification Visualization Experiment at N.C. State Department of Computer Science is looking for participants with low vision. You need only download the test materials and spend around 30 minutes testing:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jawilso7/magnificationExperiment/

4) A beta of version 9 of Window-Eyes is forthcoming. In case you want to know what features the program will offer even before this beta is released, the company is writing daily text and audio posts so that you can:
http://www.gwmicro.com/

5) The spreadsheet program, Calc, along with the word processor Writer, in the free LibreOffice package, are now more accessible to screen reader users with the release of version 4.3.4:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

6) Best Consulting has produced a set of Sharepoint Accessibility demonstrations using JAWS 15 to show how the screen reader's features work with Sharepoint to provide an accessible environment for accomplishing various tasks:
http://www.davebest.info/html/DTDEMO.html

Upcoming Freedom Scientific training webinars include:

7A) Speech History with JAWS, Wednesday, 3 December at 17:00 GMT:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Services/TrainingAndCertification/WebinarDetail/F0095

7B) And Frame Viewer with JAWS, Wednesday, 17 December at 17:00:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Services/TrainingAndCertification/WebinarDetail/F0096

8) Learn How to dim or disable the display on Android:
http://inclusiveandroid.tk/?q=content%2Fhow-dim-or-disable-display&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

9) This post lists "16 Things You Can Do In Android Lollipop That You Couldn't Do In KitKat":
http://accessnewsdaily.com/16-things-you-can-do-in-android-lollipop-that-you-couldnt-do-in-kitkat/

10) Read some Social Media Tips for Job Seekers on the Mosen Consulting blog:
http://mosen.org/index.php/social-media-tips-for-job-seekers/

11) This Dropbox Blog post discusses Making Dropbox for iOS more accessible:
http://bit.ly/1udwWAw

12) Prizmo version 3 is significantly more accessible to use on the Mac:
http://www.applevis.com/apps/mac/productivity/prizmo-3-scanning-ocr-speech

13) Blindfold Sudoku is said to be a fully accessible version of the game for iOS
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/blindfold-sudoku/id915175243?mt=8

Turning to audio content this week:

14A) FSCast Issue 100 is out, with a retrospective about FSCast and an interview with Brian Hartgen about Leasey, a forthcoming JAWS add-on designed to simplify computer use:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/About/FSCast

14B) The archive of the recent CAVICast about notetaking on iOS devices is available at:
http://www.cucat.org/cc/2014/

14C) Two recent Eyes on Success broadcasts concern "Improving Interactions With New Technologies and Advocating for Disability Rights":
http://eyesonsuccess.net

14D) Archives are available for two recent EASI webinars: "A New Approach to Support People with a Need for Alternate Formats," discussing the RoboBraille service, and "Recent NVDA Developments for Education and Work:
http://www.easi.cc/

And below we have a good collection of AppleVis podcasts this time around:

14E) Sending Voice Messages On OS X Yosemite:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-sending-voice-messages-os-x-yosemite

14F) Navigating And Using The iCloud Drive Folder On OS X Yosemite:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-navigating-and-using-icloud-drive-folder-os-x-yosemite

14G) How to Enable SMS Relay On OS X Yosemite:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-how-enable-sms-relay-os-x-yosemite

14H) Switch To Your Apple ID As Your Login On Your Mac:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-switch-your-apple-id-your-login-your-mac

14X) How To Access And Manage Connected Devices On iTunes 12:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-how-access-and-manage-connected-devices-itunes-12

14I) Quick Tip: Navigating iTunes 12 With Jaws 16:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-navigating-itunes-12-jaws-16

14J) Dark Sky for iOS: A Weather App to Keep You Dry:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/dark-sky-ios-weather-app-keep-you-dry

14K) From BGZ come Windows Tech Preview First Impressions:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/windows-tech-preview-first-impressions/

14L) And Thumbprint Security USB Reader:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/thumbprint-security-usb-reader/

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