An Assistive Technology focused podcast by the Lighthouse Vision Loss Education Center.
Elliott and Randy discuss the recent release of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15
Elliott and Randy discuss the latest Apple Keynote and all that was announced.
In this special edition of the podcast, Elliott interviews Jay Soloman, Aviva's CEO, Sarasota's only non-profit senior rental community. Jay is also on the board of directors at the Lighthouse Vision Loss Education Center and was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 8.
Randy & Elliott discuss the Apple Watch Series 6, then talk about the October 12th, 2020 Apple event and the announcement of the new HomePod mini and iPhone 12
Elliott & Randy discuss the new announcements made by Apple yesterday, September 16th, 2020
Randy and Elliott discuss the end of Randy's Ring Peephole Camera saga, Elliott's new AirPods Pro and of course WWDC 2020
We had the pleasure of being joined by Jose Cintron of Florida Vision Technology. Jose gave us a fantastic demo of the Victor Reader Stream & Victor Reader Trek. Listeners of this episode will receive a 10% discount on the purchase of any Victor Reader when you contact Jose to purchase. Jose's contact information is below. Jose Cintron Mobile: 954-993-7323 Office: 800-981-5119 www.floridareading.com
Randy’s experience with Ring Peephole Alexa can now print to compatible printers (mine is a HP OfficeJet Pro 8720) Google One Sonos and Google home & expiration dates on tech Android gets new accessibility features, including Google Assistant-powered Action Blocks Facebook has avatars, and the avatar builder is accessible. iOS13.5 is released. Face ID still doesn’t work with face masks.
Accessibility awareness month Google Meet is available to regular Google account holders. Randy looked into NFB Newsline Alexa skill and has information. Capti app Speechify Changes to Windows Narrator & Magnifier Lego releases Braille bricks to teach blind and visually impaired children Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+
Recorded on Tuesday 05/05/2020: A discussion on the importance of proper password use and management.
Elliott & Randy talk about the newly released iPhone SE. Then move on to talking about the new Google Assistant sensitivity settings. Google Reserve, formally called Google Duplex. We move on to talk about the latest shows on AppleTV+ & Disney+ and how accessible both platforms are. Elliott again bugs Randy to start watching the Marvel movies. The newly discovered iOS mail vulnerability is no big deal. Then we talk about Audio Books from the library now being available on Sonos and talk about some of the accessibility conventions. Florida Council of the Blind American Council of the Blind National Federation of the Blind National Convention
Randy and Elliott discuss some of the new features and bug fixes of iOS 13.4 & 13.4.1. Have a quick discussion about one of the latest entrants to the video chat world called House Party. Randy and Elliott also talk about Movies Anywhere and descriptive audio tracks for movies and TV Shows. The newly released Virtual Brail keyboards on Android and iOS, and lastly, we talk about the free temporary licenses to JAWS being offered by Freedom Scientific.