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Meta smart glasses bugs, privacy worries and region limits fill the Double Tap inbox, and Steven Scott and Shaun Preece work through them with blind listeners. The episode also marks the launch of Double Tap Live, a new 24/7 radio channel at DoubleTapOnAir.com.Listeners are running into the same Meta AI bug: an "available settings have changed" notice that switches Meta AI off. Callum and Gordon have lost the UK voices, Melissa finds the Meta AI app hard to use with VoiceOver, and Gordon says the microphone fix on his Adventurer glasses only partly works. Brian explains how he set up Meta glasses for a 93-year-old woman, including a Wi-Fi automation that opens the Meta AI app for her.Kevin wants people to stop calling smart glasses "pervert glasses", and the hosts discuss whether news coverage of blind users helps. Maya in South Africa gets "not available in your region" from Meta AI, which leads to a talk about unclear feature rollouts, the need for tech from outside the US, and learning to write Braille as well as read it. Shaun also explains why Oorion can be too chatty when it warns about obstacles.Camille tests the new AirPods in strong wind. John asks why blind users should care about touchscreens on Google Books, and there's news that Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by 2034. To finish, Trevor explains how the show helped him write and publish his first novel as a blind author, using AI as an accessible editing tool.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and the Double Tap Live launch3:08 – Meta AI "available settings have changed" bug and Oorion11:03 – Setting up Meta glasses for a 93-year-old17:24 – Smart glasses privacy and public perception27:56 – AMI Scholarship for students with a disability30:21 – Meta AI region limits and learning Braille38:16 – Meta app settings, microphone fixes and missing UK voices44:42 – AirPods in the wind47:27 – Google Books, touchscreens and the end of ChromeOS52:32 – A blind author's AI-assisted writing workflowCall to ActionListen to Double Tap Live around the clock at DoubleTapOnAir.com/live or ask your smart speaker for it. Send us your thoughts on Meta glasses, Braille or anything else, and subscribe so you don't miss an episode.Relevant LinksDouble Tap Live: https://doubletaponair.com/liveAMI Scholarship Program: https://www.ami.ca/scholarshipOorion: https://www.oorion.fr/enEchoVision by AGIGA: https://agiga.ai/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Double Tap Live, a new 24/7 radio channel for blind and visually impaired listeners, launches this week. Listener stories also cover Luna night vision glasses, LEGO without sight and Claude Code tips.Steven Scott and Shaun Preece explain what Double Tap Live is: a round-the-clock channel showcasing podcasts from AMI and beyond, plus a monthly live call-in show. The first one features Sriram Ganesh from Lumin, the voice-first email app. Call 613-481-0144 to take part, or use the same number on WhatsApp.Alan in Forfar tells how Bricks for the Blind's text instructions brought back a hobby from his sighted years. He has built a Formula One car and a bonsai tree, and he uses Ray-Ban Meta glasses to check brick colours. Abhijit shares what building his own accessible API testing tool with Claude Code taught him: plan the architecture early, let Claude move files, and know what each permission request does before you approve it.Derry in Dublin talks about audiobooks, ElevenReader and reading braille on a Dot Pad X. Mike in New Zealand explains why the right Alt key turns into AltGr on some Windows keyboard layouts. Raheem describes a manager who was afraid of his guide dog, and the hosts discuss how guide dog owners and employers can make room for each other.Pete tells how Luna glasses let his wife, who has RP, see trees, faces and colours after dark for the first time in 40 years. It raises the question of why tools this life-changing are not easier to fund.Chapters0:00 – Welcome to Double Tap1:09 – Double Tap Live: a 24/7 channel6:22 – Lumin joins the first live call-in show12:05 – Alan builds LEGO with Bricks for the Blind19:55 – Abhijit's Claude Code tips and a DIY social media tool28:14 – Derry on audiobooks, ElevenReader and braille35:16 – Right Alt vs AltGr keyboard layouts38:10 – Raheem on guide dogs at work and in hospital47:42 – Pete's real-world review of Luna glassesRelevant LinksDouble Tap Live: https://doubletaponair.com/liveLumin: https://www.trylumin.ai/Bricks for the Blind: https://bricksfortheblind.org/Ray-Ban Meta: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/ray-ban-meta/Claude Code: https://claude.com/product/claude-codeElevenReader: https://elevenreader.io/Luna Glasses: https://seewithluna.com/AMI Research Panel: https://www.ami.ca/panel ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Passkeys were supposed to replace passwords, so why are they still this hard to use? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through a full mailbag on passkeys, password managers, blind employment and the backlash against Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses.Listener Brandon explains why he's cancelling Microsoft 365: he says Microsoft pushes its own passkey storage over third-party providers. Steven shares his frustrations with 1Password and with Apple's app-specific passwords, and floats the idea of building a self-hosted password manager. He also tells how Seeing AI and an Aira agent helped him bring a silent Asus ProArt laptop back to life after it hit a BitLocker prompt.Cheryl, a legally blind hospital social worker in Australia, describes changing how health professionals see blindness, one colleague at a time. That leads into a frank talk about job interviews, giving up, self-employment, and how AI tools like Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT open up new ways to earn a living. Steven built a Ring camera describer in ten minutes, and Shaun then did the same for Blink.Allison refuses to be pushed out of wearing her Meta glasses. The hosts argue that people who misuse the technology should face prosecution, and that banning the glasses isn't the answer. Also in the mailbag: HumanWare's free audio tutorial for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, a SmartVision 3 owner asking for more power, and news that the Clicks Communicator is due in December.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and Meta glasses battery life4:09 – Passkeys, Microsoft and 1Password12:43 – A dead laptop, Seeing AI, Aira and BitLocker18:52 – Seeing AI reads on-screen TV text22:00 – Sighted family members and audio description24:18 – A blind social worker in hospital31:23 – Blind employment, self-employment and AI40:34 – Smart glasses backlash and privacy52:23 – HumanWare tutorial, SmartVision 3 and Clicks CommunicatorRelevant LinksHumanWare Ray-Ban Meta support and audio tutorial: https://www.humanware.com/support/ray-ban-meta/Seeing AI: https://www.seeingai.comAira: https://aira.io1Password: https://1password.comClicks Communicator: https://clicks.tech/communicatorAMI Scholarship: https://www.ami.ca/scholarship ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Meta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit is out of beta, and Meta chose accessibility apps to show it off. Stéphanie Robieux, co-founder and CEO of OOrion, joins from Meta Connect to explain what this means for blind and low vision people using Ray-Ban Meta glasses.OOrion finds objects and guides you to them with spatial audio. It now runs on Meta's glasses, so you can look around and ask where your keys are, which gate you're at, or what's in a tin, without holding up a phone. Stéphanie talks about Meta's new discovery platform, the coming "Hey Meta, open OOrion" command, and the Connect panel where she told Meta's Chris Barbour that accessibility is the most important thing these glasses can do.Steven Scott and Stéphanie also get into the business side. OOrion stays free for users, and venues like museums, hotels and train stations pay to have the AI trained on their spaces. A big deal with the French supermarket chain Intermarché may be close.The conversation also covers Europe's stricter rules, why running mostly on the device made the move to glasses easier, how feedback from OOrion users led Meta to cut latency and add Wi-Fi streaming, and what's next, including Find Anything and giving users context inside complex places like hospitals.Chapters0:00 – Intro: Meta's toolkit comes out of beta1:27 – Inside Meta Connect at Menlo Park3:37 – Discovery platform and "Hey Meta, open OOrion"7:50 – Why accessibility matters most on smart glasses11:02 – Museums, remote controls and design for everyone13:29 – Free for users: the venue business model and Intermarché16:28 – Listening to the community18:53 – Working with Meta, European rules and latency23:24 – Running locally versus cloud AI25:09 – What's next: Find Anything and smarter placesRelevant LinksOOrion: https://www.oorion.fr/enMeta Wearables Developer Center: https://wearables.developer.meta.com/Ray-Ban Meta and Meta AI glasses: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A spinal cord injury took Ishaan Mehta's career in a single afternoon. This is how he rebuilt it, with assistive technology, a list of 50 employers, and a role at LinkedIn he never settled for.Most of the people on Double Tap were born blind or lost their sight gradually. Ishaan Mehta's disability arrived on 21 October 2016. He had eight and a half years at Vodafone behind him, a project management career and a Six Sigma black belt, when a C5-C6 cervical injury left him quadriplegic with very little movement below the neck.He talks Steven Scott and Shaun Preece through the practical problem first. How do you use a phone when you cannot use your hands? A clamp to hold the device, a stylus with an extension, and a baby's pacifier on the tip so it is safe to hold in his mouth. From there came QuadJoy, the sip-and-puff mouth joystick from QuadLife, which put a laptop back within reach and made employment realistic again.He is honest about the part people usually leave out. A fistula in his throat, a second surgery on the anniversary of the accident, over a year in hospital, and the point in March 2018 when he questioned whether he wanted to be here at all. What turned it was realising his life was not only his own, and that far more remained possible than had been lost.Then the job search. He found most employers treating disability hiring as a tick-box exercise with the role already decided for him, so he changed tactics: a list of 50 companies he genuinely wanted to work for, filtered for real evidence of inclusive practice. He ended up with two offers, and chose the one that told him he was overqualified for the role he had applied for. His argument is simple. Employment is a barter of skills for pay, and that does not change because you are disabled.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and why this interview stands alone2:01 – Meet Ishaan Mehta3:37 – The career before the injury5:06 – Working out how to use a phone again7:29 – QuadJoy and getting back onto a laptop9:37 – Complications, hospital, and the lowest point14:16 – Three pillars: health, employment, giving back16:30 – Fifty companies and two job offers22:21 – The role at LinkedIn today23:12 – Zero Project, AI and the future of workRelevant LinksZero Project: https://zeroproject.orgQuadJoy by QuadLife: https://quad.life/productPneuma Solutions: https://pneumasolutions.comDouble Tap: https://www.doubletaponair.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Early dementia screening from a consumer EEG headset, a blunt answer on whether a fully inclusive world is possible, and what India's own accessibility standard means for disabled workers. Steven Scott reports from day two of Zero Project Conference India in Mumbai, the regional edition of the conference that takes over the UN in Vienna every February.NEMA AI founder Nidhi built AI at Accenture before starting a company that maps the brain using off the shelf Emotiv headsets. Ten or fifteen minutes of recording, two minutes of analysis, and a doctor gets a picture of memory, stress, sleep and attention. The aim is catching mild cognitive decline at 45 or 50 rather than 65, where approved drugs can stretch what would have been one brutal year into ten. She keeps reports away from consumers on purpose, because a number you cannot interpret at two in the morning creates worry. She also has firm views on ADHD, which she says shows clearly in how fast neurons fire, and little patience for diagnosis by Instagram.Dr Sambhavi Chandrashekar is global accessibility lead at D2L, makers of the Brightspace learning platform, and chairs the Global Leadership Council of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals. She explains inclusive design as iterative work that is never finished, uses the curb cut to show how one group's fix can be another group's hazard, and lands on personalisation as the answer for digital interfaces. She is enthusiastic about India writing its own procurement standard, IS 17802, rather than adopting the European EN 301 549, and quotes disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold on regulations allowing disabled people to dream. Steven pushes back on her position that Braille is literacy, and her doctoral research supplies the line of the day: if a website is not accessible, the blind participants did not consider it credible.Youth4Jobs hosted the conference and works on one thing, getting disabled young people in India into paid work, with nearly 4,000 employer partners and a programme sending disabled people door to door in their own communities. Where a job is not the answer, it helps set up a business with loans and grants, which matters most for disabled women whose families have written them off. Nand Kishore, who runs events and NGO partnerships there, tells his own story: a spinal cord injury three years ago, nine months in bed, delivery work, then a full time job, a marriage and marathons.Two more conversations from day two, including accessibility auditing firm Ashtavakra and a 21 year old founder claiming a 52 dollar LiDAR handheld can replace a white cane, are on the Double Tap YouTube channel in full.Chapters0:00 – Day two in Mumbai: inside Zero Project Conference India1:55 – NEMA AI: EEG brain mapping and catching decline early7:00 – Is ADHD real? What a brain map actually shows12:51 – Why the results go to a doctor and not to you15:50 – Sambhavi Chandrashekar on what inclusive design means22:52 – Can a fully inclusive world exist?28:03 – India and Canada compared: standards, money and IS 1780235:55 – Braille literacy and why accessibility equals credibility42:24 – Youth4Jobs, employment and Nand Kishore's own story52:03 – More from Mumbai on the Double Tap YouTube channelRelevant LinksZero Project Conference India: https://zeroprojectconferenceindia.orgZero Project: https://zeroproject.orgYouth4Jobs: https://youth4jobs.orgNEMA AI: https://nemaai.comEmotiv: https://www.emotiv.comD2L Brightspace: https://www.d2l.comAshtavakra Accessibility Solutions: https://ashtavakra.co.inTech Mahindra Foundation: https://techmahindrafoundation.orgLaw Office of Lainey Feingold: https://www.lflegal.comDouble Tap: https://doubletaponair.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Meta Connect 2026 brought Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses with no cameras, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, a hearing enhancement feature and the Muse AI agent. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through each announcement and ask what it means for blind and low vision users.Steven and Shaun start with privacy. They look at how Mark Zuckerberg answered Joanna Stern's questions about camera glasses, then ask whether audio-only glasses make sense for blind people now that camera access opens up apps like Be My Eyes.Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 gets slimmer frames, a longer battery and an action button. The Meta Ray-Ban Display, which has a screen reader and comes with the Neural Band, finally goes on sale outside the US, and Steven has already ordered a pair to review.The biggest accessibility story is hearing enhancement. It's software that turns supported glasses into an FDA-cleared over-the-counter hearing aid, but it costs extra. Shaun questions why an accessibility feature sits behind a paywall when direct hearing aid support still hasn't arrived. Steven looks into why the six-microphone glasses get the feature first.The episode ends with Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, the Muse Charm keychain device, and the 100-gram Meta VR Glasses, which could be interesting for low vision magnification.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and first thoughts on Meta Connect 20261:46 – Privacy and the Joanna Stern interview4:42 – Ray-Ban Meta Audio: glasses with no cameras12:39 – Ray-Ban Meta Gen 316:18 – Meta Ray-Ban Display goes international21:15 – Meta Adventurer, new styles and availability24:38 – Hearing enhancement and the six-microphone question36:14 – Muse, Meta's personal AI agent43:33 – Muse Charm45:22 – Meta VR GlassesRelevant LinksMeta Connect 2026 announcements: https://www.meta.com/blog/meta-connect-2026-everything-we-announced/Ray-Ban Meta Audio: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/ray-ban-meta-audio/Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3): https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/ray-ban-meta/Meta Ray-Ban Display: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display/Muse: https://ai.meta.com/muse/Muse Charm: https://www.meta.com/muse-charm/Meta VR Glasses: https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Assistive technology innovation from the Zero Project Technology Forum in Mumbai: an audiobook library you reach on any phone, an accessible home pregnancy test app, and AI photo descriptions that know your family by name.Steven Scott reports from the Zero Project Technology Forum, hosted in Mumbai by the Tech Mahindra Foundation, where ten innovators pitched to around 25 funders and support partners. David Banes, who advises the Zero Project and has 40 years in assistive technology, argues that startups rarely need another year-long incubator. They need a match on the one thing blocking them, whether that is investment, distribution, user testing or protecting intellectual property without the money to patent. He also makes the case for talking about assistive features and functions rather than assistive technology, because procurement still resists paying for mainstream kit that already does the job.Prashant Ranjan Verma of the National Association for the Blind Delhi presents Shravan, an IVR audiobook library reachable from a feature phone or a landline with no internet and no app. It holds around 4,000 DAISY titles, has 74,000 users, offers voice search and AI-generated news bulletins, and remembers your number so you can pick up where you left off. He also runs Café Beyond Eyes in Delhi, where blind staff handle cooking, serving and billing.Gopika Kapoor and Moneisha Gandhi explain how their sons' friendship led to Buddy Up Network, a free community app for disabled people and their caregivers, built around privacy, reporting tools, video verification and women-only groups. Chetan Sharma of the Udbhav Vision Foundation in Jaipur describes an Android app that reads a standard home pregnancy test aloud in private, then connects the user to doctors, pharmacists and follow-up tests.Picstry AI turns generic photo descriptions into memory descriptions, recognising faces on device so your pictures come back with real names attached. Its founder, an AI scientist who is blind, describes a couple hearing their own wedding photo described for the first time. Neha Soneji of the Tech Mahindra Foundation closes the day with the view from the other side of the room.Chapters0:00 – Zero Project Technology Forum comes to Mumbai0:47 – David Banes on 40 years in assistive tech and what innovators really need12:03 – Shravan: an audiobook library you reach by phone call20:37 – Café Beyond Eyes, run by blind staff in Delhi22:48 – Buddy Up Network, built by two Mumbai mothers30:44 – An accessible home pregnancy test app from Jaipur39:58 – Picstry AI: photo descriptions that name your family49:15 – Neha Soneji on hosting the forum and The Ability NetworkRelevant LinksZero Project Technology Forum: https://zeroproject.org/initiatives/the-zero-project-technology-forumEquitable AI Alliance: https://zeroproject.org/initiatives/equitable-ai-allianceTech Mahindra Foundation: https://techmahindrafoundation.orgNational Association for the Blind Delhi: https://www.nabdelhi.inBuddy Up Network: https://www.buddyup.networkUdbhav Vision Foundation: https://udbhav.orgPicstry AI: https://www.picstry.ai ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

AirPods 5 open-ear noise cancellation put to the test by blind users, plus Google's new Googlebook Android laptops, the pricing, and the accessibility answers Google still has not given.Steven Scott bought the AirPods 5 expecting to be unimpressed and came away sold. The headline is the noise cancellation: Apple claims a 50 percent improvement over AirPods 4, and in a room with a laptop and NVDA speaking, the background noise all but vanished. Steven and Shaun Preece work through the open-ear fit that sits in the ear rather than sealing it, the comfort over long listening sessions, and why the transparency mode is convincing enough that he forgot an earbud was missing. If you buy a set, spend the extra on the wireless charging case version for the volume controls on the stem.The trade-off against the AirPods Pro 3 comes down to battery life, around five hours rather than eight, which matters when a call lands at the wrong moment. For books, podcasts and music in the Apple ecosystem, the value case is strong at the lower end of the price scale.Then the laptop story. Google has launched Googlebook, a new category running Googlebook OS, built on Android with ChromeOS foundations and sold on Gemini. Five machines from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo start at 899 US dollars, all with 16GB RAM, OLED touch displays and metal bodies, split between Intel Core Ultra and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Pre-orders are open, with US availability from October 4 and other markets a day later.The accessibility picture is blank. Google has not said what the screen reader experience will be, whether TalkBack behaves like ChromeVox, or what happens to Braille display support. For any school considering swapping Chromebooks for these, that is not a small gap. Steven has written to Google, has had no reply, and an interview with Asus is lined up for next week. Send in your questions.Chapters0:00 – Apple, Siri and a purchase Steven had to make2:01 – AirPods 5: which version to buy4:38 – Open-ear fit, comfort and noise cancellation tested10:28 – AirPods 5 vs AirPods Pro 3: battery, price and value17:20 – Googlebook: Google's Android laptops arrive19:54 – Five models, five prices, one spec sheet28:26 – Who is a Googlebook actually for?30:44 – The accessibility unknowns: TalkBack, ChromeVox and Braille33:17 – Web apps, the WhatsApp problem and Chromebooks as daily drivers47:10 – Listener mail: open weights, buttered buns and duelling assistantsRelevant LinksAirPods 5: https://www.apple.com/airpods-5/Googlebook announcement: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/googlebook/pre-order-googlebook/NV Access (NVDA): https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/Tampermonkey: https://www.tampermonkey.netZero Project Technology Forum: https://zeroproject.org/initiatives/the-zero-project-technology-forumAMI Research Panel: https://www.ami.ca/panel ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Finding assistive technology that already exists is still the hardest part of using it. Hector Minto, formerly of Microsoft, explains Kerbcut, his new AI discovery platform for assistive tech products, services and lived experience.Hector's case is blunt. Around 2.5 billion people need assistive technology today, a figure heading for 3.5 billion by 2050, and a billion still cannot reach solutions that already exist. Products are spread across thousands of manufacturers, services are split between health, education and community organisations, and the accessibility features built into everyday devices go undiscovered. Kerbcut lets you describe a need in your own words and returns products, services and content from disabled people talking about their real daily use.Steven and Hector get into the psychology behind that, including the man at Euston Station who quietly asked how he would ever read again, the rolling ten minute windows people get with professionals, and why so many end up searching Reddit instead. Kerbcut asks for no registration and no email address, strips out names, and lets you download or email your conversation to take into an appointment with you.The business side is covered honestly too. Service providers can pay thirty pounds a month to write their reports inside Kerbcut, companies get context driven leads, and any organisation from a bank to a university can install Kerbcut on its own site and keep its own question data. If the free built in feature is the right answer, Hector says, nobody earns a lead from it.Before the interview, Steven and Shaun look ahead to the Double Tap Live launch on 30 September with Lumin creator Sriram Ganesh, the new Googlebook and whether anyone will mention TalkBack, Meta's incoming glasses, the Meta AI app's audio routing problems in the UK, camera access on Apple hardware, and the 699 dollar Dell XPS 13 against the MacBook Neo.Chapters0:00 – Double Tap Live launches on 30 September3:34 – Lumin joins the launch show, your top five apps and the newsletter5:48 – Googlebook day and a big week for Google and Meta8:08 – Meta AI app bugs, glasses audio and a Siri rant11:41 – New glasses: designer names or better features14:15 – Camera access, Google's openness and Apple's lockdown17:07 – Dell XPS 13 versus MacBook Neo, and PC or Mac when you're blind19:10 – Zero Project Tech Forum specials this week19:48 – Kerbcut explained: one platform for assistive tech discovery21:41 – Hector Minto on assessments, lived experience and making it payRelevant LinksKerbcut: https://kerbcut.comLumin: https://www.trylumin.aiZero Project: https://zeroproject.org ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Google is keeping the Chromebook and adding a pricier Googlebook line running Aluminium OS, built on Android 17 with Gemini baked in at system level. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece work out what that means for screen reader users, and Marc Aflalo finds out how Schlage's ultra wideband locks open the door before you reach for a key.The Chromebook is not going away. Google is holding that brand at the affordable end, aimed squarely at schools, while the new Googlebooks start around $999 and chase the same buyer who might otherwise pick up a MacBook Air. The bigger change is underneath. Aluminium OS is Android at heart, so Android apps run properly rather than through emulation, and handoff between phone and laptop becomes part of the design.That raises a question nobody has answered yet. ChromeVox is the screen reader for Chrome OS, but if the Googlebook is Android underneath, does TalkBack take over? With launch days away, Steven and Shaun note how little has been said about accessibility, and they wonder whether ChromeVox will ever support add-ons or scripting the way desktop screen readers do. Existing Chromebooks still get updates for up to ten years, and some hardware may be eligible to move across, though Google has not said which.Marc Aflalo speaks with Tim from Schlage, the lock maker that has been around more than a century and spun out of Ingersoll Rand into Allegion in 2013. The conversation covers the jump from mechanical keys to Encode, Arrive and the new Sense Pro, which uses Schlage Converge technology and ultra wideband to read the angle and speed of your approach, then unlocks at the right moment when your arms are full.Sense Pro ships with no keypad and no keyway, so the backup is a USB-C jump start port at the base of the lock that takes power from a phone or battery pack. There is also useful ground on scheduled access codes, firmware updates that add features to locks already installed, Matter support across Apple, Google, Alexa and Samsung homes, and the newer Aliro standard. To finish, a look ahead to Meta Connect on 23 and 24 September and the smart glasses rumours around it.Chapters0:00 – What's coming up0:35 – Chromebook or Googlebook? Pricing, Aluminium OS and Gemini4:52 – ChromeVox, TalkBack and the accessibility unknowns6:06 – Which Chromebooks might transition9:28 – Schlage's history, from mechanical locks to Allegion11:09 – Encode, Arrive and the launch of Sense Pro14:53 – Converge technology and ultra wideband at the door17:12 – No keypad, no keyway, and the USB-C jump start21:27 – Access codes, pet sitters and vacation rentals26:40 – Meta Connect rumoursTried a smart lock, or waiting to see what the Googlebook does for accessibility? Email feedback@doubletaponair.com and tell us. Like, subscribe and share to help more people find accessible tech coverage.Relevant LinksSchlage Sense Pro: https://www.schlage.com/en/home/smart-locks/sense-pro.htmlAllegion: https://www.allegion.com/corp/en/index.htmlAliro 1.0 standard: https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/introducing-aliro-1-0-a-unified-standard-to-transform-the-access-control-ecosystem/Chromebook accessibility and ChromeVox: https://www.google.com/chromebook/accessibility/Accessible Learning Lounge: https://accessiblelearning.gumroad.comMeta Connect: https://www.meta.com/connect/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how Lumin, a voice‑first email app for iPhone, is transforming email management for the blind and low‑vision community. Learn how AI and audio‑only design bring speed, precision, and independence to your inbox.This episode is supported by Pneuma Solutions. Creators of accessible tools like Remote Incident Manager and Scribe. Find out more at https://pneumasolutions.com/Shaun Preece sits down with Sriram Ganesh, founder of Lumin, to explore the journey from video game programming to creating a fully voice‑controlled email client.This episode dives into:⁃ The development of Lumin as a voice‑only, AI‑powered email app.⁃ Real‑world challenges of managing email with low vision and how Lumin solves them.⁃ Live demo showing how to read, reply, archive, and manage email entirely by voice.⁃ Key insights into privacy, cloud security, and data control for users.⁃ The roadmap for future features, expansion to more platforms, and accessibility goals.Sriram Ganesh is a lifelong builder whose career spans high-stakes entrepreneurship and profound personal resilience. In his early 30s, Sriram was diagnosed with cone-rod dystrophy, an incurable condition causing progressive central vision loss.As he struggled to adjust to his new reality, Sriram confronted a world where accessibility tech lagged far behind innovation. This led him to create Lumin, a voice-first AI assistant designed for the blind and low vision community.Social Links• Lumin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talktolumin/• Lumin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talk_to_lumin• Lumin X: https://x.com/TalkToLumin• Lumin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talktolumin• Sriram Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsriramg/• Sriram TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamsriramg• Sriram X: https://x.com/sriramganeshSriram LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriramganesh/Relevant LinksLumen App: https://trylumen.ai/r/doubletap ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

NASA is hosting its first webinar built for blind and low vision audiences, and Christine Malec is on the panel. She joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to explain what the October 2 session covers, how sonification changed the way she experiences space, and why signing up matters even if astronomy has never felt like your thing.The two hour Zoom event focuses on the RS-25 engine that powers the Artemis missions. It includes an audio described video of an engine test, which is new territory for NASA, a Q&A with Artemis engineers, two of whom are blind, and a panel on accessibility in space science. Christine consulted on making the event, and the way it was marketed, genuinely welcoming to the blind community. Registration closes September 25 and also gets you the recording afterwards.Christine traces how she got here through sonification, the practice of turning astronomical data into sound. Her point lands hard: the images NASA publishes are constructs too, built from X-ray and infrared data that no human eye can see. Sound and tactile models are the same data in a different format, not a lesser substitute. She also makes the case that no question at the Q&A is too basic, because education is the entire point.Before the interview, Steven takes aim at the global Braille survey and its startlingly low response numbers, arguing we cannot keep debating whether Braille is dead while refusing to supply the data. Fill it in even if you only use Braille screen input.Then there is the BrailleSense 7 and its protective top layer that owners are peeling off before they reach the manual. That sparks a wider argument about out of box experience in assistive technology, and why a device costing thousands should offer a spoken welcome wizard and a keyboard help mode instead of assuming you will read the documentation.Chapters0:00 – Blind people in space and Jakob Rosin's Artemis II tracker4:11 – The global Braille survey and why the numbers matter11:32 – BrailleSense 7, peel-off layers and manuals nobody reads18:41 – The case for an on-device welcome wizard23:28 – Christine Malec on NASA's accessible Artemis webinar27:34 – How sonification opened the door at NASA34:59 – Describing space through sound, touch and awe41:30 – Why no question is too basic for the Q&A49:45 – Talk Description to Me and the Air Canada episodes53:16 – The AI that mistook Steven for a biscuit tinRelevant LinksNASA webinar details: https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-hosts-virtual-artemis-webinar-for-blind-low-vision-community/Webinar registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAgtokLIPaZ-FCpdjz0JPtBrTOmKu5xwjYPz4hGg3MKrJxzg/viewformArtemis II Live Tracker: https://artemis.jakobrosin.comTalk Description to Me: https://talkdescriptiontome.buzzsprout.comChandra sonifications: https://chandra.si.edu/sound/SYSTEM Sounds: https://www.system-sounds.comBrailleSense 7: https://www.himsintl.com/en/blindness/list.phpAMI scholarship: https://ami.ca/scholarship ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Blind listeners share how they really use Meta Ray-Ban glasses, OOrion, smart locks and braille. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also take a hard look at Siri AI in iOS 27 and ask whether the iPhone 18 is worth buying.Gavin in Edinburgh talks about using smart glasses carefully after the privacy stories, and points out how often mainstream coverage mentions blind users. Ross, who is new to sight loss, explains how he uses OOrion on his Meta glasses to warn him about lampposts, parked cars and doorways. Shaun gives an update on OOrion and the connection problems with Meta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit.Steven has updated his main iPhone and isn't impressed. Siri AI can search his messages but can't set a reminder, and it hangs around after opening apps. That leads to a debate about why Apple gets so much slack, why you might want to hold off on iOS 27, and whether anyone needs an iPhone 18.Tim Dixon explains how his Nuki smart locks mean he never has to fumble for a key. An assistive tech teacher in America makes the case for braille and tactile graphics, which starts a conversation about stock footage and how the media shows blind people. Cody explains why the original Nintendo Switch is being retired in the EU, and Gary Eadie sets the record straight on the AltGr key.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and upcoming Microsoft and Meta Connect events2:07 – Gavin on Meta Ray-Ban glasses and privacy5:13 – Ross on using OOrion with Meta glasses13:04 – Siri AI, iOS 27 bugs and the iPhone 1828:48 – Tim Dixon on Nuki smart locks35:56 – Braille, tactile graphics and how the media shows blind people47:52 – Cody on the Nintendo Switch and accessible gaming52:01 – Gary on the AltGr key55:21 – Wrap upRelevant LinksDouble Tap: https://doubletaponair.comOOrion: https://www.oorion.fr/enVoiceVista: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voicevista/id6450388413RNIB: https://www.rnib.org.ukNuki: https://nuki.io/enMonarch by HumanWare: https://www.humanware.com/monarch/Hadley: https://hadleyhelps.orgThe Braillists Foundation: https://www.braillists.orgAMI Research Panel: https://www.ami.ca/panel ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Microsoft has set 7 October for a Windows and Surface event built around local AI, and the rumoured Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon could finally give Windows a proper answer to the MacBook Pro. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece work through what that means for price, build quality and blind users, then turn to the home network tools that keep solving real problems.The Surface conversation covers more than specs. Shaun makes the case for the Surface Pro form factor, Steven pushes back on using one on a train, and both land on the same point: build quality matters, and the cheap end of the Windows laptop market has quietly got worse while prices went up. Steven's hands-on with the MacBook Neo sets the benchmark that Microsoft now has to meet.Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast writes in with a Tailscale feature worth knowing about. An exit node turns one always-on machine at home into your personal VPN, so your traffic tunnels home and back out as though you never left. That leads into why Tailscale is so hard to explain and so easy to use once it clicks, including the moment Steven had to edit himself out of an old episode to hear the explanation properly.Steven also walks through the Raspberry Pi 5 running Pi-hole on his network, set up entirely by asking Claude to do it. Ad blocking turns out to be an accessibility feature, since pages load faster and articles stop trapping a screen reader in ad after ad. There is a serious note too, on the 415,000 attacks logged against one unremarkable web domain in a single month.Scott from Sydney corrects the record with a full demo of port forwarding on eero, which is not behind the eero Plus paywall after all. Barry has thoughts on calendars, Robbie from Ohio defends the new Notepad, and Shaun explains exactly why he does not.Chapters0:00 – Microsoft confirms a Windows and Surface event for 7 October3:03 – Surface Laptop Ultra, NVIDIA RTX Spark and local AI5:56 – Build quality: MacBook Neo, Surface and Pixel11:28 – Satya Nadella on slowing down, and Copilot falling behind13:26 – Building your own apps with AI and the fear of releasing them18:35 – Allison Sheridan on Tailscale exit nodes24:09 – Pi-hole, the Raspberry Pi 5 and ad blocking as accessibility32:42 – Double Tap Live launches 30 September43:29 – Scott from Sydney demos port forwarding on eero50:29 – Robbie from Ohio on language, Notepad and the Franklin Language MasterRelevant LinksDouble Tap: https://doubletaponair.comTailscale: https://tailscale.comPi-hole: https://pi-hole.neteero: https://eero.comMicrosoft Surface: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surfaceLumin: https://trylumin.aiPodfeet Podcasts and the NosillaCast: https://www.podfeet.comRØDECaster Pro II: https://rode.com/en/interfaces-and-mixers/rodecaster-series/rodecaster-pro-iiAMI Scholarship: https://www.ami.ca/scholarship ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Should blind and low vision users install iOS 27 right away? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece explain why VoiceOver users might wait a month. Then they open the inbox for listener emails on Meta glasses problems, the best smart glasses for reading, Luna AI, Siri dictation and the high cost of Braille displays.Steven's yearly advice to hold off on iOS 27 got some pushback online, and the hosts explain the reasoning. If VoiceOver breaks, a blind user loses their screen. They cover reports of tinny speech, why the nerds should test first, and hidden code that could let Claude sit behind the Siri AI interface. They also get into cluttered screen reader navigation on Facebook and LinkedIn.Dan in Preston says Meta glasses in the UK have stopped doing look and tell. Shaun has hit the same bug and shares a workaround. Steven gives an update on his locked Microsoft account. Donnie from Oklahoma wants to know whether the AGIGA EchoVision or Meta glasses read print better, which leads to a chat about Envision, OOrion and Google's glasses coming this fall.Lena recommends Luna AI, an accessible voice tutor, and Shane in St. John's, Newfoundland gives Siri's new advanced dictation high marks, with one exception. Cheryl enjoys the Nicky voice for Kindle books. That sparks a look at Runa TTS pronunciation quirks and Stash and Jot, two apps Steven built with Claude. Leander closes by calling for payment plans, leasing or subscriptions to make Braille displays affordable.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and low expectations1:43 – Why VoiceOver users should wait on iOS 2711:11 – Facebook, LinkedIn and screen reader clutter16:07 – Dan on Meta glasses failing in the UK26:12 – Donnie asks about EchoVision vs Meta for reading33:00 – Lena recommends Luna AI37:00 – Shane reviews Siri AI dictation41:37 – Sheryl on the Nicky voice and Runa TTS47:33 – Steven's Stash and Jot, apps built with Claude51:51 – Leannda on the cost of Braille displaysRelevant LinksLuna AI: https://trylunaai.comAGIGA EchoVision: https://agiga.ai/OOrion: https://www.oorion.fr/enThe Blind Life: https://www.theblindlife.net/Runa TTS: https://accessmind.io/runa-tts.phpPiccyBot: https://piccybot.com/AMI Scholarship: https://www.ami.ca/scholarship ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Is the AI industry sounding a real alarm, or is it about money? Tech journalist Will Guyatt joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to make sense of the AI pause warnings. Then it's a first look at Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta and a candid chat about Windows, the Mac and screen readers.Will lays out three theories behind a chaotic news week. AI makers could be alarmed by how quickly their models are moving. Donald Trump wants no brakes in a race with China. Or AI companies short on funding may be delaying their IPOs and reshaping the story. He also points listeners to Ed Zitron, a sceptic of the AI business model.Steven and Shaun then weigh up what "AI will kill humanity" really means. They cover rogue AI agents, an email assistant that forwarded a message nobody asked it to send, AI tools given credit cards, and why government regulation may be too slow to matter.The mood lifts with hands-on impressions of Siri AI in the iOS 27 public beta, including the waiting list, the Dynamic Island and early bugs. There's a reminder to hold off on updating your daily phone, because banking apps and third-party apps may break, plus an inaccessible Barclays app.The episode closes with Creative USB speakers that switch audio back to the laptop, and why Windows with NVDA or JAWS feels more logical than the Mac. Plans to learn grade 2 braille and use a webcam to give Claude eyes round things off.Chapters0:00 – Intro: is the AI warning nonsense?1:40 – Will Guyatt on what's behind the AI pause12:39 – Balance sheet or something bigger?21:02 – AI agents, control and regulation30:22 – Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta35:18 – Why to wait before updating, and banking apps39:49 – USB speakers and automatic audio switching42:45 – Windows, the Mac and learning grade 2 braille51:33 – Giving Claude eyes and final thoughtsRelevant LinksWill Guyatt: https://www.willguyatt.co.ukEd Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: https://www.wheresyoured.atAppleVis: https://www.applevis.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Apple's Surprise and Shine event brought the foldable iPhone Duo, AirPods 5 and a quiet RAM boost for Apple Watch Ultra 4. Steven Scott and Marc Aflalo of YourTechReport pick out what matters, what could have been a press release, and whether the Duo can replace an iPad for someone who travels a lot.Steven found most of the keynote boring. Marc liked more of it, starting with Live Rewind, which lets your Apple Watch catch the last 15 seconds of a conversation you missed. That raises questions about privacy, where the data lives, and why features like the expressive Siri AI voices leave out the iPhone 15 Pro. They also look at the Ultra 4 going from 2GB to 4GB of RAM, and Steven explains why VoiceOver has felt sluggish on his Ultra 3.AirPods 5 bring active noise cancellation to the $129 model with no ear tips, and the wireless charging version adds volume control on the stem. Marc describes how the AirPods hearing features help him focus in noisy restaurants. Steven makes the case for wired USB-C EarPods when VoiceOver latency matters.Then the iPhone Duo. Marc expects to buy one, because a 7.6-inch inner screen could let him leave his iPad at home. They cover the passport-sized design, Touch ID, the under-screen camera, MagSafe, and a closed thickness of around 11.2mm. iPhone Handoff, which lets two iPhones share one number, leaves open questions about carriers and cost.The conversation ends on whether a Pro Duo is coming, why the iPhone Air will probably survive, and why the 17e is still a sensible pick for many buyers.Chapters0:00 – Intro and first thoughts on Surprise and Shine1:44 – Live Rewind, audio intelligence and privacy3:21 – Which devices get Siri AI features4:36 – Apple Watch Ultra 4 RAM and the Series 127:53 – AirPods 5, noise cancellation and wired EarPods12:52 – iPhone Duo first impressions and design19:01 – iPhone Handoff and sharing one number22:32 – MagSafe, cases and unconfirmed specs24:18 – A Pro Duo, the iPhone Air and what to buyRelevant LinksiPhone Duo: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/AirPods 5: https://www.apple.com/airpods-5/Apple Watch: https://www.apple.com/watch/YourTechReport: https://yourtechreport.com/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Honda Scenic Audio set out to describe the view from a car window for blind and visually impaired passengers, using computer vision and generative AI. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece revisit their 2024 conversation about the app, built with Perkins School for the Blind, and ask whether poetic AI scenery description is something blind people actually want.This episode is supported by Pneuma Solutions. Creators of accessible tools like Remote Incident Manager and Scribe. Find out more at https://pneumasolutions.com/Honda announced Scenic Audio in April 2024 as a beta. You hold your phone to the window, it works in any car, and it narrates the passing landscape in storytelling language instead of practical directions. Steven thinks back to a Rocky Mountaineer train journey from Banff to Vancouver where he'd have loved more description. Shaun wonders what it would make of an ordinary drive through town.Shaun's bigger question is whether true real-time description exists yet. Steven points to the Be My Eyes demo of GPT-4o describing ducks on a pond, and argues this app sits alongside tools like Be My AI and Google Lookout.Phil Hruska of Honda explains how the project grew out of Honda's focus on inclusivity, with guidance from Dr. Josh Loebner, who is blind himself, on involving disabled people from the start. Sandy Lacey of the Howe Innovation Center describes interviews with around 30 blind and low vision people, and why testers enjoyed details they hadn't realised they were missing. The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind and Honda's Enable associate group also took part in beta testing.Honda's R&D history comes up too, from ASIMO to office chairs that move out of your way, along with Shaun's wish for self-driving wheelie bins. Back in 2026, the hosts reflect on how much AI tools have changed since this was recorded.Chapters0:00 – Welcome and a classic from the archive2:38 – Honda Scenic Audio explained3:51 – Honda's launch video5:27 – Would you use it? Scenic trips and everyday drives8:12 – Real-time description and the Be My Eyes GPT-4o comparison11:54 – The Honda and Perkins partnership with Phil Hruska16:07 – Listening to blind users and Honda's R&D projects19:56 – What testers said about the app22:46 – The verdict: Honda Cynic25:43 – Looking back from 2026Relevant LinksPneuma Solutions: https://www.pneumasolutions.comBe My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.comLookout by Google: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9031274 ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Audio description was built for blind and partially sighted viewers. RNIB brought broadcasters to London to ask whether sighted audiences want it too, and what that would change for the rest of us. Steven Scott reports back from the Audio Is King event, before the show turns to Clipman, an Audacity 4 warning, and the Anthropic resignation that put AI extinction talk on every front page.RNIB surveyed more than 1,200 sighted people and found roughly 42 percent already knew what audio description is. Steven and Shaun compare that with audiobooks, which stayed a small shelf of expensive CD boxsets until Audible made them mainstream and quality improved for everyone. The same could happen with description, listened to on a commute or at the gym, if discovery improves. Shaun argues the real barrier is presentation: burying it in a languages menu keeps it hidden, and the name itself may need rethinking. Described video, the term used in Canada, came up as a clearer alternative.Behind the slow progress sits a familiar problem. Accessibility teams inside broadcasters are small, and every department arrives at the priorities meeting asking where the value is. Steven makes the case that description could be an offering rather than a cost, pointing to companion podcasts, to what television could learn from audio-first storytelling, and to AMI's integrated described video, where the script carries the picture instead of a separate voice. He also pays tribute to Sonali Rai at RNIB and to audio describer Marie Campbell, whose voice Steven recognised live on stage.Two warnings follow. Audacity 4 rebuilds the interface in Qt and, in testing, screen reader access is badly broken, so stay on the version you have. New iOS and macOS releases land next week, and the advice is to wait a month and read the AppleVis bug report first. On a brighter note, Clipman from Andre Louis now runs on Linux and offers a self-hosted server, so encrypted clipboard sync works across Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone without a cloud account.The episode closes on Jacob Coxon, who resigned from Anthropic this week saying neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is acting responsibly and that both are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Colleagues publicly agreed the risk is real. Steven and Shaun weigh how seriously to take percentage odds on human extinction, why biological weapons and infrastructure hacking changed the shape of the fear, and why the story has been met with near silence inside the blind tech community.Chapters0:00 – Please don't kill us all0:19 – RNIB's Audio Is King event and audio description for sighted audiences24:32 – Clipman gains Linux support and a self-hosted server29:08 – Do not install Audacity 433:14 – New iOS and macOS updates: wait a month35:52 – Jacob Coxon resigns from AnthropicRelevant LinksRNIB: https://www.rnib.org.ukClipman by Andre Louis: https://github.com/OnjLouis/ClipmanAMI: https://www.ami.caTwenty Thousand Hertz: https://www.20k.orgAudacity: https://www.audacityteam.orgAppleVis: https://www.applevis.comAnthropic: https://www.anthropic.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Apple's iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and Apple Watch Series 12 arrived at the September event, and Steven Scott, Shaun Preece and returning guest Michael Babcock came away distinctly unmoved. Here is what the new lineup actually offers blind and low vision users, and where all that money goes.The headline is the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable. It opens like a passport to a 7.6 inch inner screen, with a 5.4 inch display on the outside, a variable torque hinge and speakers that adapt to how you hold it. There is no Face ID, though Touch ID and Apple Watch unlock are there, and the camera sits behind the screen. Pricing starts at $1,999 US and $2,999 Canadian for 256GB, rising to $3,199 US for two terabytes. The team agree it could be genuinely transformative for people with low vision thanks to magnification and side by side apps, while VoiceOver users may find the extra screen real estate hard to justify. One change worth knowing about: the dock and app tabs move to the right side of the screen vertically, which will take some relearning.The Apple Watch gains what Apple calls audio intelligence. A Siri recap feature pulls back a transcript of the last 15 seconds of conversation, useful when a server rattles off the specials, and a double press of the digital crown starts longer note taking that can be tied to a schedule so it never listens at the wrong moment. Michael compares it to his experience with wearable recorders and the Plaud Note, and explains why Apple's private cloud compute makes him more comfortable than the alternatives.Elsewhere, AirPods 5 bring a claimed 50 percent improvement in active noise cancellation without going into the ear canal, with a version offering volume control on the stem at $149 US. Apple Watch Series 12 focuses on a redesigned heart sensor, longevity metrics and a Quest Diagnostics tie-in for blood work, prompting a frank exchange about whether more health data helps or simply creates anxiety. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 US and climbs steeply from there.Then there is the list of no-shows: no new Apple TV, no HomePod, no smart glasses, and no standard iPhone 18 until March. With Siri AI still not fully out, the hosts ask whether this is the year to sit tight.Chapters0:00 – First reactions to a boring Apple event2:24 – The opening skit and Tim Cook's retirement4:24 – iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and the price increases12:09 – AirPods 5, noise cancellation and stem volume14:01 – Audio intelligence and the watch that listens24:00 – Apple Watch Series 12, heart data and longevity31:26 – iPhone Duo: Apple's foldable arrives47:54 – The missing Apple TV, HomePod and Siri AI53:53 – Expected and dull: the final verdictRelevant LinksApple Events: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/Earshot Podcasts by Michael Babcock: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earshot-podcasts/id6770760602 ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Meta glasses microphone problem finally has a fix, and it was buried in a settings menu the Adventurer model never showed. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece explain exactly where to find it, why it should have been on by default, and what else has changed across Meta's growing glasses lineup, including walking directions and spatial audio that only work on some models.There is also an honest conversation about the smart glasses privacy backlash, whether blind wearers should start policing where they wear a camera on their face, and whether Meta donating glasses to blind charities is cynical PR or a story worth telling.Steven opens with a delivery disaster involving a cracked desk, a one man Amazon collection van and a refund that left him paying someone to take the thing away. From there the show turns to the Meta glasses, where a software update has finally surfaced the microphone troubleshooting toggle for the Meta Adventurer model. It was always available on the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which never needed it. Turning it on resolves the muffled, inaudible calls that Steven and listener Gordon had been chasing for weeks. Shaun and Steven also compare notes on settings that reset themselves, the Meta AI app becoming harder to navigate, and the fact that these glasses are no longer one product with different frames. Walking directions have rolled out in the US and Canada, spatial audio is missing from the Ray-Bans, and only some models carry an action button.Richard from Louisiana calls back after his previous question about Bixby. He has stuck with TalkBack on his Samsung phone, describes it as an interrogation technique, and has been trying to connect Audible and iHeartRadio to his glasses without success. Shaun walks through where the connect button actually lives in the apps list. Richard also reports that Meta's walking navigation beats Google Maps in his neighbourhood, accurate enough that a left turn instruction lands within twenty counted steps. His wish to say "get me an Uber" to his glasses leads into a discussion of agentic AI, computer use tools already helping blind users fill in inaccessible web forms, and how long it might take Apple and Google to bring that to the phone.Gavin in Edinburgh raises the privacy question. He still wears his glasses, but swaps to Bose Frames around a pool and would never wear them near a changing room. That prompts a wider debate: Meta now blocks recording if the notification LED is covered, some people have drilled the light out entirely, and mainstream coverage keeps mentioning the benefit to visually impaired users. Steven argues the fear is running ahead of the evidence and says he has no plans to stop wearing them. The PR question follows, tied to a story from a recent Zero Project event about companies choosing a ramp outside a building over the accessibility work nobody can photograph.Along the way: Earshot, the VoiceOver-first podcast app from Michael Babcock, gets a thumbs up, Steven confesses to buying a tiny 3D printed VibeKeys keypad for vibe coding, and floats two future projects, a watch that tells you the time without a rooster, and Wi-Fi presence sensing to find the dog. The episode closes with Apple event predictions, recorded hours before the keynote.Chapters0:00 – Welcome to Double Tap0:48 – The broken desk and Amazon's odd fix10:12 – Falling out of love with the Meta glasses12:19 – The microphone fix for the Meta Adventurer17:48 – Walking directions, spatial audio and a splintering lineup19:36 – Earshot, app overload and the VibeKeys keypad24:30 – A talking watch and Wi-Fi presence sensing27:02 – Richard on TalkBack, Meta app connections and walking navigation32:03 – Learning a screen reader and the promise of agentic AI39:06 – Gavin on privacy, the LED and Scottish inventors44:45 – Would you stop wearing camera glasses?47:12 – Meta's PR and the ramp outside the building52:53 – Apple event predictionsHave the Meta glasses worked for you, or has the privacy conversation changed how you wear them? Send a voice note or an email and it could feature on the show. Subscribe wherever you listen, and hit like on YouTube to help more blind and low vision listeners find us.Relevant LinksMeta AI Glasses: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/OOrion: https://www.oorion.fr/enAira: https://aira.io/Be My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.com/Earshot Podcasts: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/earshot-podcasts/id6770760602VibeKeys: https://vibekeys.dev/Zero Project: https://zeroproject.org/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

NVIDIA has bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, and Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dig into what that means for open source AI models, local AI on your own machine, and whether free models can survive the money now pouring into artificial intelligence. There is also a full verdict on the ASUS ProArt PX13, a Lenovo ThinkPad that lost its shine, and the networking app that changed how both hosts work.The NVIDIA and Hugging Face deal sits at the centre of the show. Shaun makes the case that a hardware company owning the biggest open model repository could be good news, because NVIDIA sells the shovels in the gold rush and has already published more than 500 of its own models on the platform. Steven pushes back and asks the harder question: if nobody makes money giving models away, how long does open source AI actually last, and is free access the gateway to a paid enterprise tier?From there the conversation turns to hardware. Steven explains why the latest Lenovo ThinkPad with a Snapdragon chip left him cold on build quality despite excellent battery life, and why he moved to the ASUS ProArt PX13 with an AMD Ryzen AI Max processor, 32GB of RAM and a discrete NVIDIA GPU for running local AI models on the move. There is honest talk about thermal throttling, plastic that flexes, keyboards worth paying for, and the timeless pain of a better machine being announced the day yours arrives, in this case an RTX Spark version of the same laptop.The bigger shift is platform. Steven describes why AI has settled a years-long back and forth between Mac and Windows, since anything missing on the PC can now be built rather than bought. He also makes the case for a second machine as a dedicated AI project box, which does not need to be new or powerful if the work runs in the cloud.Networking gets a proper look too. Both hosts explain Tailscale in plain terms, how it puts your computers on one private network wherever you are, how a shared hard drive between Glasgow and Wales replaced a mess of conflicted Dropbox copies, and why it works on your phone as well. Steven then explains why he is outraged that eero puts basic port forwarding behind a monthly subscription, and the pair discuss how few genuinely accessible router options exist.The episode closes with a question for listeners, borrowed from an old Tim Cook interview: if your phone was wiped and you could keep five apps, which five would they be? Be My Eyes, Aira, Seeing AI, Soundscape and VoiceVista come up quickly, and the hosts want the mainstream picks too, on iPhone and Android, to build a community list for the website.Email feedback@doubletaponair.com, call or send a WhatsApp message to 1-613-481-0144, and we will build the community list for the website. If you enjoy the show, hit subscribe and like so more people find accessible tech coverage.Relevant LinksHugging Face: https://huggingface.coNVIDIA blog post on the acquisition: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/ASUS ProArt PX13: https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-creators/proart/proart-px13-hn7306/Windows PCs accelerated by NVIDIA RTX Spark: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/05/31/introducing-a-powerful-new-chapter-for-windows-pcs-accelerated-by-nvidia-rtx-spark/Tailscale: https://tailscale.comRemote Incident Manager: https://getrim.appBe My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.comAira: https://aira.ioSeeing AI: https://www.seeingai.comSoundscape from the Scottish Tech Army: https://www.scottishtecharmy.org/soundscapeVoiceVista: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voicevista-blind-navigation/id6450388413Lookout from Google: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9031274Lazarillo: https://lazarillo.appMona for Mastodon: https://getmona.app ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dyson has built a $499 toothbrush with a camera inside it, Sony is in court arguing that nobody really owns the digital games they buy, and the UN has conceded the 1.5C climate target is gone. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece take on the week's other stories.The Dyson CameraJet puts a camera and an LED light in a brush head, streams video of the inside of your mouth to your phone over Wi-Fi, and uses an AI algorithm to find the gaps between your teeth and fire mouthwash into them while you brush. Steven and Shaun run their usual guess-the-price game before landing on the number, then get to the more interesting question: does any of this actually improve your dental health, and would a dentist ever act on the data? Along the way there is a reminder worth keeping, that the electric toothbrush exists at all because disabled people needed a brush that would do the work for them.The bigger conversation is about ownership. A class action in California claims Sony does not make it clear that paying for a game buys a licence rather than the game itself, and Sony's response is that reasonable consumers already know this. Steven talks about buying the Tom Clancy film collection on Apple TV and the uncomfortable fact that it could disappear from his library without warning. Both hosts land in the same place: streaming subscriptions make sense because renting is the deal you signed up for, but a purchase button should mean something. That leads into DRM, ripping your own discs, network attached storage, and why keeping a copy of something you paid for can make you feel like a criminal.The episode closes on the UN Environment Programme report acknowledging the world has passed the 1.5C threshold agreed in the 2015 Paris accord, with the goal now shifting to limiting the overshoot and bringing temperatures back down. Steven connects it to the energy demands of AI data centres, and to the awkward position of anyone who cares about the climate while using AI daily. Shaun pushes back on the idea that individual action is pointless. Neither of them pretends to have an answer.Relevant LinksDyson CameraJet announcement: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyson-camerajet-the-first-toothbrush-with-a-camera-and-a-jet-to-target-the-gaps-and-remove-plaque-between-your-teeth-302865389.htmlSony digital ownership case coverage: https://www.engadget.com/2248777/reasonable-consumers-know-they-dont-own-digital-downloads-sony-says/UN report coverage: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/global-warming-will-exceed-limit-un-says-report-maps-path-back-rcna595663 ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Mike Calvo of Pneuma Solutions joins Steven Scott to explain how Remote Incident Manager for iOS lets blind users run a Windows PC or Mac from an iPhone, and why AI document remediation is about to change what accessible information costs.Mike also shares how a blind CEO who does not write code now designs product screens with AI, what Pneuma's own trained models do differently from ChatGPT or Claude, and why the company built Accessible Archive to run on a company's own hardware with no per-page fee.[Sponsor]This episode is supported by Pneuma Solutions. Creators of accessible tools like Remote Incident Manager and Scribe. Find out more at https://pneumasolutions.com/The RIM mobile client flips the usual remote access story. Rather than controlling a phone from a computer, it turns an iPhone into the controller, so you can connect a keyboard, drop into your home machine, and work with your own screen reader, add-ons and scripts exactly as you left them. Android is in development. Mike explains what is free right now, what carries a subscription, and why the difference comes down to maintaining an open connection back to your machine.Mike then moves on to documents. Pneuma Solutions started in 2019 doing remediation with heuristics and tools like ABBYY FineReader, an approach that broke on corner cases and, more importantly to buyers, disturbed how a document looked. Mike describes how his son David trained models on millions of accessible documents, models that know nothing about history or writing and do one thing only. Because they can run on local infrastructure with a GPU, the per-page cost of remediation disappears, which matters when an organisation is staring at decades of backlog and an ADA Title II deadline.There is a clear-eyed explanation of what remediation actually means, headings, tables, lists, alt text and WCAG standards, plus the just-in-time approach Pneuma is building into upload portals. The example that lands hardest: court exhibits scanned as graphical PDFs, uploaded, published, and then handed to a blind lawyer who cannot read a word of them.Running through it all is Mike's argument about employment. Blind people can describe what they want with precision, and AI has become the lever that turns description into product. He points to his own team, to a developer earning a living largely through vibe coding, and to the unemployment rate in the blind community as the problem worth attacking.Relevant LinksPneuma Solutions: https://pneumasolutions.com/Remote Incident Manager: https://pneumasolutions.com/remote-incident-manager/Scribe: https://pneumasolutions.com/scribe/ADA Title II web and mobile accessibility rule: https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-rule-first-steps/ABBYY FineReader PDF: https://pdf.abbyy.com/ScribeMe: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scribeme/id6739640292Plaud Note Pro: https://www.plaud.ai/pages/plaud-note-proREAPER: https://www.reaper.fmDouble Tap: https://www.doubletaponair.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore the challenges of workplace accessibility for blind employees, the emotional journey of losing vision, and the importance of autonomy and support systems. Learn why access delays, employer inaction, and inadequate systems can significantly impact employment and daily life for visually impaired individuals.In this episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece delve into listener emails and voicemails, sharing deeply personal stories about sight loss, workplace accessibility, and the emotional ups and downs of adjusting to blindness. The hosts discuss:The frustration of long delays in receiving JAWS licences and custom scripts, and how systemic issues in government support like Access to Work can leave blind employees waiting months or even years for proper accommodations.The importance of workplace understanding, highlighting how smaller companies often react faster than large corporations weighed down by bureaucracy.Personal reflections on the mental and emotional journey of sight loss, including the “happy-sad-happy” cycle of initial independence, the struggle of low vision, and eventual acceptance of blindness.Listener stories ranging from managing parental sight loss and driving safety concerns to humorous but enlightening tales of prosthetic eyes in unexpected moments.Practical discussions on assistive technologies like Orion for object location, and the benefits of tools like Speaking Access for affordable screen reading.The episode balances empathy and humour while emphasising the need for greater autonomy, better systems, and community support for blind and visually impaired people.Relevant LinksSpeaking Access: https://www.speakingaccess.comOrion App: https://www.orionapp.io ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Steven Scott and Shaun Preece share a hilariously chaotic behind-the-scenes look at Double Tap, from recording mishaps and AI jokes to workplace accessibility struggles and thoughts on Apple's upcoming event. Expect candid insights, funny anecdotes, and listener contributions from around the world.In this episode, Steven and Shaun open with an honest—and very funny—apology to listeners after a complete recording disaster leaves part of the show missing. They recount the technical mishaps, cloud recording safeties, and the comical realities of trying to salvage a broadcast.The conversation shifts to Apple news: Tim Cook's upcoming departure, John Ternus stepping up, and speculation about the 9 September Apple event and potential new products like AirPods with cameras and a refreshed Apple TV. They explore live vs pre-recorded keynotes and why “Siri AI” could be the star.Listeners also share valuable experiences: Lena recommends four excellent hymn resources, Tess compares Meta Ray-Ban and Rokid smart glasses for accessibility, and Dan gives a sobering insight into the barriers blind professionals face in the workplace. This episode balances humour with meaningful commentary on accessibility, workplace inclusion, and the challenges of assistive technology adoption.Relevant LinksHymnServe: https://hymnserve.comOPC Hymnal: https://opc.org/hymnal.html ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore the lively debate on evolving tech terminology and accessibility tools as Steven Scott and Shaun Preece tackle language changes in technology, generational communication shifts, and the newest NVDA 2026.2 update featuring its built-in magnifier. In this episode of Double Tap, Steven and Shaun dive into the quirks of language in technology, from the shift away from using “male” and “female” to describe cable connections to the wider conversation about changing terminology and context. Generational habits, from emojis to grunting replies, get a humorous nod along the way. The conversation then moves to practical accessibility news, including the release of NVDA 2026.2 with its new magnifier and expanded touch gestures. The hosts discuss how this update could help low-vision users transition toward screen readers, its differences from Windows' built-in tools, and some of the technical quirks of installation and usage. They also touch on braille technology with the launch of the Orbit Flow 40 braille display, pricing, and usability for different types of users. Lastly, they highlight Tony Gibbard's latest accessible Windows apps, including a prompt library for AI and a soundboard tool, and touch on AI assistants like Claude, Grok, and OpenClaw for productivity and system control. Relevant Links NVDA 2026.2: https://www.nvaccess.org/download Orbit Research: https://www.orbitresearch.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover the latest in accessible tech for blind users, including the Ploud One AI earbuds for meeting transcription, multi-line Braille displays like the Dot Pad, and the emerging world of tactile graphics. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece unpack real-world experiences, frustrations, and hands-on insights with their guest Holly Anderson. In this episode of Double Tap, Steven and Shaun dive into the growing field of AI-powered accessibility tools. They explore Ploud One, a pair of AI-enabled earbuds that can record, transcribe, and summarise meetings on the go—sparking a lively discussion on privacy and whether these devices are worth the $249 price tag. The conversation shifts to the Dot Pad multi-line Braille display. Holly Anderson from the Maccessibility Podcast shares her hands-on experience, describing how multi-line Braille transforms reading documents, scanning banking apps, and even playing games like Tetris and Solitaire through tactile graphics. She also reflects on tactile graphics as a non-visual user and the pros and cons of using the Dot Pad with iPhone, Mac, and web apps. The episode closes with an honest discussion about tech frustrations, including listener Gregory's dissatisfaction with the Ally glasses and the importance of tech companies maintaining transparent communication with blind users. Relevant Links Maccessibility Podcast: https://macaccessibility.net Ploud One AI Earbuds: https://ploud.ai Dot Pad by Dot Inc.: https://www.dotincorp.com/dotpad ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Apple's latest launches, folding iPhone rumours, new Mac Mini and Mac Studio specs, and Meta's $18B teen safety settlement — Steven Scott, Shaun Preece, and tech journalist Will Guyatt break down what it all really means. This episode dives into Apple's busy product week, starting with the launch of new Macs and the official date for the “Surprise and Shine” September event. Steven and Shaun explore the rumours of a folding iPhone, the real-world appeal of foldable devices, and updates to the Apple Watch, Apple TV, and HomePod. They break down the new M6 Mac Mini and M5 Pro models, neural engine upgrades for local AI performance, memory options, and steep pricing differences in Canada versus the US. The conversation shifts to one of the biggest tech legal stories of the year: Meta's $16–18 billion settlement over claims Facebook and Instagram are addictive to children. Will Guyatt explains why Meta settled, what product changes will be enforced for teens, and why the company still admits no wrongdoing. From two-hour time limits to disabling autoplay for under-16s, the team evaluates whether these changes will genuinely protect young users or simply delay deeper regulation. ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how Barvox, a groundbreaking speech translation app, is giving people with speech differences the power to be heard in real time. Learn how it restores dignity, connection, and independence. This episode is supported by Pneuma Solutions. Creators of accessible tools like Remote Incident Manager and Scribe. Find out more at https://pneumasolutions.com/ Barvox is revolutionising accessible communication by “translating” the unique speech patterns of people with verbal challenges into clear, natural-sounding speech. In this conversation, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece speak with CEO and founder Dror Levy, co-founder Gill Epstein, speech therapist Orly Ziv-Maxim, and volunteer Samantha Cohen about how the app works, why it matters, and the lives it's already changing. From autism and ALS to Down syndrome and brain injury, Barvox allows people to build a personal speech dictionary, so their words and personality are expressed naturally—without the rigid and robotic tone of traditional AAC devices. The team shares the inspiring story of Barvox's creation, the emotional reactions of early users, and its potential to transform therapy, education, and daily life for those often left unheard. Relevant Links Barvox Official Website: https://bar-vox.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how blind and visually impaired tech enthusiasts navigate smart locks, Face ID, AI-powered audiobook reading, and NVDA add-ons, with humour and insight from Steven Scott and Shaun Preece. Steven and Shaun dive into a lively inbox session, tackling emails from listeners on a wide range of tech topics. They debate whether AI text-to-speech voices like Eleven Reader can truly replace human audiobook narrators and explore the benefits and quirks of celebrity voice reading. The hosts respond to strong opinions on the usefulness of digital door locks versus traditional keys, discuss the accessibility pitfalls and workarounds for Face ID, and share tips on optimising Claude AI for screen reader users. Listeners contribute thoughts on NVDA add-ons, nostalgia for old screen reader voices, and the importance of expanding book access for blind users. ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover the hilarious chaos of midnight phone calls, Apple's surprise Mac launches, and navigating life with low vision as Steven Scott and Shaun Preece tackle accessibility, tech mishaps, and AI experiments in this jam-packed Double Tap episode. Steven and Shaun kick off with an unplanned midnight panic thanks to “Mr. F” and his accidental phone call, leading to KitKats and coffee-fuelled banter. The conversation quickly turns to Apple's unexpected release of the Mac mini with M6 and the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra, dissecting the confusing chip lineup and whether anyone should rush to buy. The duo dive into accessibility with tales of awkward tech setups, ZoomText struggles, and the emotional journey of embracing blindness. Listener emails spark discussions on custom VoiceOver gestures, Amazon's Lady A+ subscription, Microsoft login nightmares, and the joys (and hazards) of AI experiments. The episode ends with a passionate look at local AI models, Claude, ChatGPT, and how to manage powerful new tools on your desktop. Relevant Links Triple Tap Tech: https://tripletaptech.org ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore accessible tech tips for blind and visually impaired users, from mastering iPhone voice control and Assistive Access to discovering smart apps like Earshot, WeatherFast, and the Whoop fitness tracker. Learn how AI-powered features can make your digital life easier and more inclusive. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into a lively listener mailbag, sharing stories, tips, and tools that enhance accessibility for blind and visually impaired users. They cover accessible church music apps like Elvanto and Planning Center, and discuss the surprising capabilities of iOS voice control for those with mobility challenges. Listeners share personal experiences with adaptive tech, including AI-powered lyric searches, background sounds, and smoke alarm detection on smart devices. The hosts explore Assistive Access on iPhone versus Easy Mode on Android, highlighting real-world use for people with cognitive or visual challenges. The episode also features community praise for Earshot (a simple podcast app built for blind users) and WeatherFast, plus a detailed listener review of the Whoop fitness tracker, which automatically detects activities and integrates AI coaching. From heartfelt listener stories to practical app recommendations, this episode blends humour, real-world experience, and actionable accessibility advice. Relevant Links Elvanto: https://www.elvanto.com Planning Center: https://www.planningcenter.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover the latest conversations around Sonos speaker accessibility, Meta smart glasses, and AI-driven accessibility solutions. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece share personal experiences, listener feedback, and practical advice for blind and visually impaired tech users. In this lively episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into listener messages covering everything from high-quality audio gear to the future of smart glasses. The discussion kicks off with a humorous tangent about a Perkins School for the Blind gift bag, before moving into practical advice on Sonos speakers, including their accessibility challenges, Wi-Fi setup quirks, and app updates. The hosts explore Meta smart glasses, connection issues, and the growing debate surrounding privacy and public perception of wearable cameras. They also highlight the potential for AI and APIs to empower blind users to create accessible workarounds for otherwise inaccessible apps, while debating whether this approach creates a new kind of digital inequality. Listener insights from around the globe bring real-world experiences with Meta Oakleys, accessibility advocacy, and the concept of a “disability tax” in digital access. This episode is packed with wit, advocacy, and a forward-looking discussion on how mainstream and assistive tech are evolving. Relevant Links Perkins School for the Blind: https://www.perkins.org Sonos Official Site: https://www.sonos.com Meta Smart Glasses: https://www.meta.com/smart-glasses ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how blind and visually impaired users navigate books, tech frustrations, and accessible smart glasses in this lively conversation with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece. Learn about text-to-speech (TTS), Braille reading, AI voices, and how updates can completely change the experience of devices like Meta smart glasses. Steven and Shaun kick off with Monday mischief, from tangled cables to noisy dogs. The episode dives into how visually impaired users consume books: audio, Braille, TTS, and apps like 11 Reader with Eleven Labs voices. They debate whether natural-sounding AI voices can sustain long-form reading, and how Braille use can improve concentration and reading speed. The conversation shifts to Meta smart glasses, including the Adventurer model, mic issues, and a surprise software update that seems to improve call quality. They discuss spatial audio, voiceover quirks, and how accessibility in apps like Meta AI can affect independence. Listener emails bring real-life stories about learning screen readers, accessibility frustrations, and advice for safer tech setups. From Sonos app accessibility to domain registration headaches, the show offers relatable tips and humour, highlighting the importance of patience and perseverance when adapting to living with vision loss. Chapters 0:00 – Monday chaos and tangled cables 6:15 – Reading books: audio vs TTS vs Braille 19:40 – Meta smart glasses update and mic testing 34:55 – Spatial audio experiences and accessibility 48:22 – Listener emails: screen reader learning curve 1:19:00 – Tech safety, Sonos, and domain registration Like, comment, and subscribe for more honest and humorous insights into living with vision loss and accessible tech. Share your experiences with TTS, smart glasses, and learning screen readers—we'd love to hear your story. Relevant Links Be My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.com Double Tap Show: https://doubletaponair.com 11 Labs: https://elevenlabs.io ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover the controversy surrounding Meta's smart glasses, rumours of AirPods with cameras, and the exciting Intel Gamer Days giveaway featuring an MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI laptop. Learn why privacy, accessibility, and cutting-edge AI hardware are at the heart of this conversation. Steven Scott welcomes guest Marc Aflalo to explore two major tech topics. First, they dive into the growing scrutiny around wearable cameras, from Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to Apple's potential camera-enabled AirPods. The discussion highlights privacy concerns, the concept of “visual intelligence,” and how these technologies impact both mainstream users and the blind community. Then, the episode shifts to a special giveaway supported by Intel Gamer Days, running through 13 September. Marc showcases the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI laptop, packed with Intel's latest processors, 360° flip design, OLED touchscreen, stylus with Copilot integration, and AI-optimised performance for creators and gamers alike. Listeners can enter the giveaway simply by subscribing to the Double Tap newsletter, gaining access to bonus content and future updates. Subscribe to the Double Tap newsletter for your chance to win the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI laptop and stay updated with exclusive content: https://doubletaponair.com Relevant Links Intel Gamer Days: http://game.intel.com/gamerdays Your Tech Report: https://yourtechreport.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Discover how GitHub's accessibility initiatives and generative AI tools are empowering blind and disabled developers to code, create, and innovate independently. This episode is supported by Pneuma Solutions. Creators of accessible tools like Remote Incident Manager and Scribe. Find out more at https://pneumasolutions.com/ Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility at GitHub, joins Steven Scott to share how open source, AI, and GitHub Copilot are transforming opportunities for developers with disabilities. From building software without prior coding experience to editing videos independently, Ed explains why this is a true renaissance of achievement for disabled creators. The discussion covers the evolution of accessibility in tech, the power of open-source collaboration, and how natural language tools are democratising software development. Ed also highlights GitHub's commitment to removing barriers, improving the accessibility of open source, and inspiring more blind and disabled people to contribute as first-class developers. Share your experiences and support accessibility innovation: complete GitHub's developer survey here:https://gh.io/2026-accesscats-survey Learn more about GitHub accessibility:https://accessibility.github.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Struggling with Microsoft account passwords and accessibility? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into the frustrations of password management, passkeys, and account recovery, while exploring the everyday challenges blind users face with Windows, Mac, and smart home tech. In this episode of Double Tap, Steven shares his exhausting three‑day battle with Microsoft account recovery while setting up a new virtual machine. From forgotten passwords and elusive 25‑digit recovery codes to the unreliable implementation of passkeys, the hosts candidly dissect the frustrations of modern authentication. The conversation expands into wider accessibility concerns for blind users: Inconsistent screen reader feedback at login screens. The pitfalls of passkeys across Windows and Mac ecosystems. Real-world workarounds, including text file password “solutions” and the role of password managers like 1Password and iCloud Keychain. They also touch on the future of accessible DIY tech, from 3D printers and tactile merch to the elusive dream of truly seamless, secure logins. Finally, the episode highlights global Braille surveys, community emails, and the importance of data to shape inclusive technology. Relevant Links Global Braille Survey: https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77Dg1BuBQDi54RE WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey11/ ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore how AI is transforming accessibility for blind and partially sighted users, from using vibe coding to mastering productivity tools, while reflecting on vision loss, independence, and future tech. In this episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into a candid conversation about vision loss, the emotional journey of preparing for blindness, and how AI is becoming an essential ally. Steven shares his experiences experimenting with AI-powered tools like vibe coding, local models, and OBS to stay independent in video production, while Shaun unpacks the frustrations and triumphs of creating and testing accessibility solutions. The discussion moves from rumours about Apple AirPods with cameras to practical conversations on using AI for screen readers, automating repetitive tasks, and even compressing massive video files. Together, they explore the balance between human support services like Aira and the rise of AI automation, the challenges of community-driven code projects, and why embracing these tools could redefine accessibility and independence in the years ahead.

Discover the latest rumours and insights about Apple's potential AirPods with visual intelligence and the evolving landscape of AI-powered wearable tech. Hosts Steven Scott and Shaun Preece share personal stories, tech mishaps, and lively debates on whether Apple is falling behind in the AI race. This episode explores the buzz around Apple's rumoured AirPods featuring camera or visual intelligence capabilities. Steven and Shaun break down how leaks in the macOS release candidate hint at AirPods able to perceive and share visual data, sparking speculation about privacy, LiDAR, and the future of Apple's approach to smart glasses. The hosts also dive into their own tech experiences—Steven's comical blind-dash to the dentist, the quirks of screen readers on Windows versus macOS, and the challenges posed by beta software on the new MacBook Neo. They share listener emails about voice assistants, LiDAR misconceptions, and the Meta Adventurer smart glasses' microphone issues. You'll get a mix of humour, practical insights, and reflection on how rapidly AI and wearable tech are transforming accessibility and mainstream technology. ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Learn how to run Windows on a Mac accessibly with AVM (Accessible Virtual Machine), a powerful, blind-friendly solution for virtualisation on Apple Silicon. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into the challenges and breakthroughs of running Windows on macOS without losing accessibility. Their guest, Allison Melloy, introduces AVM — an accessible virtual machine designed to give blind users a seamless Windows experience on a Mac. From solving issues with Boot Camp and Parallels to creating a true accessible workflow for screen reader users, Alison shares her journey of “vibe coding” with AI tools like Claude, learning development without traditional coding experience. They explore AVM's features, the importance of audio cues, keyboard mapping, and the potential of AI to empower blind developers and create new job opportunities. The episode closes with insights on accessible development, future plans for AVM, and how blind users can leverage AI to innovate. Relevant Links AVM GitHub: https://github.com/allisonfm85/accessible-virtual-machine Windows ISO Download: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Learn how Steven Scott and Shaun Preece tackle listener emails, guide dog refusals in hospitals, and the daily challenges of using Meta smart glasses and social media apps with accessibility tools. This episode blends humour, honesty, and practical tips for blind tech users. Steven and Shaun dive into a packed session of listener feedback, starting with a controversial hospital guide dog refusal and the balance between empathy and professional responsibility. They share anecdotes about medical staff, public attitudes, and the generational differences in accessibility awareness. The conversation moves into the challenges of Instagram and Facebook for blind users, exploring third-party tools like “Describe Me” for richer image descriptions. The hosts also troubleshoot Meta smart glasses, Orion, and Aira issues, discuss voice recognition quirks, and share workarounds for stubborn tech. The episode rounds off with reflections on braille's role today, accessibility gaps in education, and the importance of preserving skills like braille literacy alongside modern tech solutions. ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Explore the latest Google Pixel devices, including the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Tag trackers, and Pixel Buds, as Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into new features, AI capabilities, and Android tips for 2026 buyers. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece share their hands-on impressions and insights into Google's newest Pixel releases, including the Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel Fold, and the all-new Pixel Tag tracker. They discuss the incremental nature of modern smartphone updates, AI integrations like Google Gemini, and why Pixel remains the go-to Android option for accessibility and long-term updates. The conversation also covers Android vs iPhone ecosystem quirks, the evolution of Pixel design from early “plastic feel” models to today's premium builds, and how Google's Find My-style network could change the game for lost items. The hosts debate the practicality of annual device cycles, compare earbuds like Pixel Buds Pro 2 against AirPods, and explore why Pixel's longevity and software support make older models like the Pixel 6A and 10 Pro still excellent buys. From AI readiness to ultra-wideband tracking, this episode is packed with practical advice for anyone considering a new Android phone or accessory. Relevant Links Google Pixel: https://store.google.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.