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Echo Tips

David Ward

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Brief educational episodes highlighting and demonstrating features of the Amazon Echo. Commands for Alarms, Timers, Phone Calling, reading books, and much more are all laid out by host and trainer, David Ward. These episodes are especially helpful for new ones to the platform and seniors who are learning how to use their new device.
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That Real Blind Tech Show

Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy

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A podcast Hosted by Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy discussing the good and bad of assistive technology for the low vision and totally blind. Key topics include Apple’s VoiceOver, Amazon’s VoiceView, Windows Narrator, Freedom Scientific Jaws, Described Video, and basically any product that talks to you. We are not NPR, as we are an entertainment technology show.
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Welcome to Beyond Sight, a podcast created by Blind Industries & Services of Maryland (BISM), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing innovative career and training and rehabilitation resources to blind residents of Maryland and beyond. Join us as we dive into the world of blindness with insights, stories, and discussions with our host, Independence Training and Rehabilitation instructor Qualik Ford, and passionate guests and industry experts. Together, let’s explore t ...
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Living Blindfully

Jonathan Mosen

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Sight is a highly dominant sense. If you have it, naturally you’ll use it for a lot of things. But if you don’t have it, or you don’t have as much sight as you used to, it’s still possible to live a rich, full life. This podcast is all about how it’s done. We offer tips and tricks for living blindfully, including plenty about the latest accessible technology, but we discuss the barriers too, ranging from attitudinal barriers to accessibility barriers and more. Hear interviews with movers and ...
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Suggestions to avoid the dreaded onion -induced tears in the kitchen run the gamut of ideas from freezing them, to cutting them underwater, to sporting special goggles, to even stuffing some bread in your mouth beforehand.
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In this week's omnibus episode of the Echo Tips Podcast, host David Ward provides an in-depth, yet constructively critical, review of the Library of Congress's "My Talking Books" Alexa skill for individuals with print disabilities. While praising the skill's responsive setup and book listing capabilities, David highlights several key areas for impr…
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It's flagship wireless headphones season, and Sony has revealed its highly anticipated WH-1000XM6 a pair of over-ear noise-cancelling Bluetooth headphones three or five or even nine years in the making, depending on how you look at it.
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