Join Luke Scriven and Cory Ballard, Assistive Technology Specialists at Vision Forward, for Tech connect Live! This free event every other Thursday at 11:00 AM CST features a live demonstration of an assistive technology product, followed by an open question and answer session and general discussion. Come find out how devices perform when they’re put on the spot – and how Luke and Cory perform for that matter! This informal event is a great place to come and get a real experience of assistive technologies, all without having to leave the comfort of your own home.
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 8:55 Rachel introduces the Odyssey by HumanWare and NextVPU 10:00 Modern market for OCR devices vs OCR apps, what makes the Odyssey stand out? 11:11 Showing off the physical device, its camera arm, handle and buttons. 12:00 Ports include USB-C, HDMI display port, Wired Power options, Micro SD card for saving files 12:45 Navigating through the menus, how to activate Auto Mode for taking pictures and reading via OCR 17:30 welcoming Mathieu the Project Manager for the Odyssey 18:15 Using Manual Mode to take a photo of a document and having it read aloud. 21:45 AI, Standard Description and Summary uses Chat GPT so you must be connected to the internet 22:22 Future developments will use the built in microphone to ask Follow-Up questions 23:00 Spanish and French translation to English, more languages and voice commands to follow! 26:50 Finger Pointing Mode, ideal for reading newspapers and other complex documents 29:45 Other than the OrCam, no other standalone OCR device has that finger pointing feature 32:00 Max 50 requests a month, but subscription models exist for additional requests 38:00 Bluetooth and Wired Headphones for audio options other than the speaker 40:20 Rachel explains why Odyssey is best, durable, easy to operate, solid AI, 42:30 Wrap Up, additional links for more info, upcoming videos and livestream topics 46:30 Ending Music Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 5:45 Introducing Freek from Hable! 11:00 Last Time Freek discussed the Hable One! Same Hardware for the Easy. 14:30 Showing the device, discussing its buttons, battery and bluetooth! 16:00 Who is this device for? Is the Easy a shortcut around gestures and multi-tapping? 18:00 How do younger folks use this device differently than the older crowd? 19:45 Rundown of the eight buttons and what their default settings are, how to label them tactile 21:00 Open the box, hear voice instructions on how to connect your device and get started. 24:30 Helpful buttons for navigation, back button and reset button are useful incase you get lost 27:00 The Hable Easy is easily the best deal compared to how large an impact it can make for someone 28:30 Tactile stickers which can be applied according to what the user customizes their buttons to do. 31:00 If you already own the Hable One, you already have the hardware so just use your App to turn it into a Hable Easy! 32:00 Works with bluetooth to connect to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and soon the Apple Watch! 33:00 How many actual button combinations can you program? 35:30 Fan suggested edits and improvements to the Hable 36:30 Hable Easy works with 90% of the commands on Blindshell, works with other Android devices too! 37:15 Where to buy the Hable Easy or Hable One. 38:30 Battery Life is about 1 month, but it does have to be charged 39:30 Upcoming Topics and updates to our LMS and Zoom based livestreams 41:45 End Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 3:15 Comments from the Chat, 6:30 EMVI App Introduction, payment options 7:45 Data Protection with this app vs free AI options with worse data leaks 9:00 Demo of the App, navigating the menus and options 13:15 Taking a picture, human expression tests 17:00 Art Description via taking a photo with the app 20:00 Taking a photo of a computer cord and asking which plug it is 21:30 Document section, scanning text but it ends up rewriting/hallucinating close words 25:00 Reading text at a distance, in this case about +30ft of distance 26:30 Code Scanner, EMVI uses info from the internet/brand website not actually reading 30:00 Ease of use is good, swipe for navigation, photos automatically interpreted based on mode 32:15 Fun Facts about Ice Mountain 100% Spring Water turns out to be Groundwater from Michigan 33:00 Seeing AI App Summarized, no more channel switcher, there is a new system of three options 37:30 Facial Recognition with AI description 39:00 More Tab, traditional channel selector is now available again! 41:00 Chatting with folks in Chat about the Meta Glasses and wearables generally 44:30 Wearables Part 2 Upcoming video! 48:40 Outro Music Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 6:00 Xiaoran, CEO of Agiga introduces the company, herself and the EchoVision Glasses 8:45 Huasong, CTO of Agiga, gives his story and how they chose to make their own smart glasses 16:00 Optional Colored or Mirrored front covers similar to clip on sunglasses 18:00 How to charge the glasses, how is the battery life and weight? 20:00 Demonstration of the reading mode, first using a business card 23:00 Specifically asking what the phone number on a business card is, summary of text options 25:30 Scene Description, environmental basics such as furniture people and technology 27:45 Facial Recognition, Description and Emotional information 32:45 Point and Describe? Can the glasses recognize gestures like that? 34:45 Tips for Facial Description from a Blindness POV, tips and tricks for longer term development 36:45 Menus and Dim Light Conditions 39:00 Live Descriptions with Continuous Audio Feedback 46:30 Sharing your media taken from the EchoVision Glasses, Media Buttons 49:00 Price, Promo Code and PreOrdering the EchoVision Smart Glasses from Agiga 52:00 Closing The show! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start IBVI Industries 7:15 Setting Expectations for this year's CSUN, Livestreaming Tuesday and Wednesday 5pm Pacific 9:40 Quick Run Through of the full list of CSUN Vendors and Exhibitors 10: 00 Accessibyte w/ Joe Jorgenson featuring: Typio, School and Work Suite of software, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Xy-XB6Jtc 11:20 Agiga w/ Hassan featuring: Hardware similar to Meta Glasses 12:45 Aira featuring: visual assistance connection app either on phone or on your computer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiIPrAja_k 14:00 AwareWolf w/ Dave featuring All Terrain Cane https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-6nAGz0xfyY 16:00 Be My Eyes featuring: assisted video call with a volunteer or using AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Lugpgj5JM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dCA4qWaXlQ 17:30 Blindshell accessible smart phone w/ Barry Azman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohUlMcaO3U 18:30 Brava Smart Oven, microwave sized accessible oven subdivided for differential cooking 21:00 Case for Vision featuring an iPhone case designed to turn it into a magnifier. Similar to the Optaro by Eschenbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-Byo_FGXM 22:22 Dot Incorporation featuring the Dot Pad multiline braille display, also Dot Watch 23:15 EMVI.AI featuring AI powered app for visual assistance 25:30 Glidance mobility aid w/ Amos Miller https://www.youtube.com/live/42KuD0uuZls 27:00 HumanWare featuring Prodigy Magnifier for Windows w/ Peter Tucic and Rachel Ramos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZzDYV0MRLY 28:10 Maggie Vision VR style wearable using an iPhone, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kfxFJP6fs 28:50 Morphic control panel for Windows, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LqmxbRto8 30:00 NewHaptics Braille hardware designed for large area tactile "screen" display 32:15 Orbit Research and the Activator by Dream Vision Group for braille similar to dual monitors 34:00 Orcam, Reineeker and the Navis App by Touch Pulse handsfree personal navigation app, 36:20 TrySight's Mercury Vision wearable magnifier with speech 37:50 The Vispero Group: Freedom Scientific, Optelec, Enhanced Vision, 38:30 Voxiweb, sign up for a service designed for navigating the internet using a screen reader 39:00 WeWalk featuring GPS and phone connected smart cane, 40:15 Zoomax wearables, electronic magnifiers, 40:45 Wrap-Up, Sony PS5, Amazon, upcoming livestreams at 5pm Pacific on 11th, and 12th, 42:00 Post your questions and requested topics, comment and like the videos! 42:45 Closing Music Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 6:45 Introducing Rachel Ramos from HumanWare, her story and her current role 10:15 HumanWare product overview of devices old and new 17:00 Victor Reader Stream, book reader, podcasts, internet radio, news and magazines, all audio 18:30 New features of Victor, organize your Voice Notes into folders, 20:45 Guided demonstration of navigating and creating named folders, 23:15 Demo of recording a new Voice Note, 24:15 Files are numbered sequentially by default, after deleting a file you can Consolidate to renumber files. 29:00 Brailliant and other Braille products, read books, take notes and 32:00 What is new? Tools like WIkipedia, Wiktionary and WordSet 35:00 Example use case of searching an unfamiliar word, 38:00 HumanWare Podcast w/ Rachel and Peter "See Things Differently with HumanWare" 43:00 Navigating with Brailliant and selecting words to look up 47:00 HumanWare Odyssey featuring AI powered scanned document questions, 49:00 Wrap Up with Rachel Ramos from HumanWare, upcoming topics and events 51:15 Ending with Music Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 2:15 End of Intro Song 4:30 Explaining how Innosearch.AI aggregates from other websites 10:00 Laptop Demo, Homepage, What are Flash Deals? 15:30 Search, information clarity via Stripped Down Interface, reviews 19:45 Ask Innosearch Artificial Intelligence for specific questions 31:00 Adding to Cart, Navigating 36:00 Searching for digital assets like Silver Arrows in Knights Manager 37:15 Searching for Flights 43:00 Wrap-Up Review of Innosearch.AI what it does well where does it need improvement? 48:00 Closing Credits and Ending Song! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 4:30 IBVI promotional video 5:30 Comments, Amazon Alexa Trigger Warning! 7:35 Akinator, Guess the Character! 12:30 Knight Manager, steer and cheer on your champion! 29:30 Escape the Room, Collect clues and crush puzzles to escape! 43:00 Sound Quiz, Guess the song name quicker than your competition! 47:20 Wrap Up Amazon Echo games Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 2:15 Where has Cory been? 4:15 Holiday Catch-Up 6:00 The new Nosferatu Movie Review 10:00 Envision Ally, past and future produced video 16:15 Introduction to the Workshop Topics 18:15 Early Pessimism as to how useful these workshops are; however, we were PLEASENTLY SUPRISED 20:45 How to get to the YouTube comments and live chat using a Screen Reader, 24:00 Low Vision using AI to detect and lable Salient Objects depending on activity, 28:30 Realtime VR Games using AI to identify interactible objects, what pitfalls must be overcome? 32:30 Hable One and Comments from our chat 34:30 AI enhanced reading, this includes eye tracking and line focus technology 38:00 Augmenting Landmarks for people with low vison, wearing an AR headset, similar to Good Maps 42:30 Visual Social Cues, translating facial expression, body language, gestures and movements 48:45 Wrap Up with Closing Thoughts. Thank you everybody! Have a great 2025! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 5:30 Introducing our Guests from Blindshell: Filip and Jakub 9:15 History and Development of previous Blindshell products 14:35 Upgrades from the Blindshell 2? RAM, new colors, Storage, Physical Grip, lower latency 17:00 Left Action Button, new features: display, notifications, battery and wifi settings, copy and paste! 21:00 Navigating the menus, describing the physical buttons and layout of the device. 25:00 Voice Control Options, specifically Luna AI! 29:00 You cannot hangout the phone using Luna AI, they didn't want you accidently hanging up 29:45 Uses for Luna include, sending and reading messages, set alarms, calendar reminders, 33:00 Touchscreen, specifically for use with 3rd party apps which you can download and install 38:00 Phone Screen Sharing via Tandem, allows a trusted few to temporarily control your phone screen 44:00 Wrap-Up, contact info, website suggestions and supported networks list. 48:00 Closing the show with Holiday cheer, upcoming produced video on Envision Ally AI, 50:00 Closing Credits and Ending Song! Be sure to join us next year! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 5:30 Introducing our Guest: Mikayla Siditsky 9:00 Eyedaptic's EYE5 Hardware gets a Software Upgrade = EYE6 11:00 Ivy, a built in AI for your EYE6, introduction and Use cases 12:30 Physical Description of the EYE5, use of a tethered smartphone controller 18:45 Auto Zoom and Object Detection Options such as Faces or Text 22:50 Sheet Music, real-time stabilization, 25:30 Bright Text Function: a while outline surrounds text and objects, bold shapes help 31:45 Eyedaptic History, what was the EYE1? Will there be an EYE7??? 35:30 What is the difference between the EYE5 and EYE6? Button changes and AI tips 39:00 Worried about Wifi? Mikayla explains the different tiers of payment for more reliable service 40:45 Using Ivy, testing basic description, 44:00 Ivy OCR and summary of text 49:00 Memory, can Ivy only remember one picture at a time? How long after use does it remember? 49:30 Wrap-Up Contact Details and upcoming events, livestreams, etc 53:00 End Sign off message! Next time is BlindShell Classic 2! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 6:00 Jokes and Audience Comments and Questions 7:50 Introducing PiccyBot, AI descriptions from video and photos 11:30 PIccyBot's creator Martijn Van Der Spec enters the chat! 13:00 Demo using VoiceOver navigating through the app , headings, controls 16:55 Demo of taking a still photo in the app and hearing its description 27:00 Using PiccyBot to analyze old photos already saved on your device 32:00 Comparing this with the Be My AI description and response time. 37:00 Uploading an existing video file to the app for description 43:00 Actually taking a live video and uploading it for a detailed description! 49:00 Summary thoughts from our Assistive Technology Experts! 53:00 Upcoming videos, live shows and events! Stay Tuned! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Smart Vision 3 Part 2: Apps! Notes go here 0:00 Start 3:30 Upcoming Dining In the Dark event 5:15 Setting up expectations, referencing previous livestream on Smart Vision 3. 8:00 Overview of the phone and its controls, 9:00 Getting into the Application List 11:00 Agenda 12:20 Currency Identifier 15:00 Where can you purchase this phone? Raz Mobility website 17:55 Calendar, changing view scale and creating events 20:30 Color Identifier App, 23:30 Contacts, creating new contacts, dictation works but you cannot spell by letter 27:40 Book Reader information, compatible with Bard style Daisy files and other text file into Audiobook. 33:00 Gmail example both reading and writing emails 37:45 Sending a Text using Google Assistant or Gemini 39:15 YouTube, navigating, searching, and using it with TalkBack and Dictation 42:30 How this phone compares to Blind Shell Classic 2? 46:00 Upcoming Videos, Events and Livestreams Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 10:00 Smart Vision 3 Introduction, who is it best for? 12:30 Physical Description, Button Controls 17:10 Demo of the device, Navigating through menus, 22:00 List of Applications, technological workarounds and gestures 25:00 T-Mobile support and 3 months of Mint Mobile for free 26:20 Getting to Contacts from main menu, 28:00 Discussing tech complexity and how simple controls don't always make it easier 32:00 Demonstrating the Magnifier 34:45 Launch the Google Assistant to ask it questions 38:10 Alexa App Raincheck 39:00 Commenter Questions, VoiceOver 40:00 Demonstrating the Google Lookout app 41:40 Smart Vision 3 Features of note, keypad controls, who is this best for? 46:00 Wrap Up, Upcoming Episodes, Produced Videos and Special Events! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 6:45 Welcoming Joe Jorgensen, how did Accessibyte begin? Early steps and stages. 12:00 Laptop View and Demo from the Accessibyte Homepage. 14:45 Learning methodology of Typio. Giving students educational tools that don't need a teacher all the time. 17:00 Joe explains each program, including Accessibyte Arcade and Braillio! 24:30 Home edition vs School edition? How would a teacher use these programs? How about younger students? 28:30 Typio vs Typio Pro for laptop demonstration 38:00 Typing Pets as a method of gamifying education. 44:00 Wrap-Up Summary and upcoming videos Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 5:00 Elizabeth Evans background, training, experience and context of Maggie IVR 11:20 Showing the Headset controls, including tactile buttons of dials for customization 13:00 Why iPhone? Maybe Android next year, perhaps Pixel? 18:00 Handling the device, hardware review, 23:00 OCR on a wearable device, how often is it actually used? What devices are better for that? 27:00 Mobile use, Maggie can get you a head strap, with training most folks can move easily wearing it 28:30 Mode button, changing defaults and holding mode button for 5 seconds to revert back to defaults 31:10 Low Light use? 34:00 Website Maggie.vision and other ways to get your hands on the Maggie IVR 37:30 Reaction time, very little lag between pressing buttons on the device and seeing results 37:45 Battery Life is 4 hours, if plugged in you can run it for 8+ hours 39:30 What sort of vision loss is this for? Central Vision Loss, Poor Night Vision and general low vision 40:00 Eevans@maggie.vision Contact info and website Maggie.vision for a contact form 41:45 What all comes in the box? 43:00 Wrap-Up contact info and upcoming videos or events 44:00 End Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 1:30 Jokes! 3:00 Audience Comments 5:45 Introducing Jeanette Von Dyck and the eSight Go! 7:00 Jeanette's personal story about getting involved in Assistive Technology 9:45 The eSight Go is best for those with Low Vision, ideal for those between 2200 to 2800 12:00 It is the type of device that you really need to test in person before knowing if it is right for you. 13:00 Jeanette explains Peter's Anomaly: Congenital Cornea Scarring 16:30 Audience Comments and Questions 18:15 Jeanette recalls recent history from eSight 3 (2017) through eSight 4 (2020) and now eSight Go! 23:30 The eSight Go! Physical Description, USB port, Neck Battery provides 3 hours of use per battery, 26:00 Tilt controls are quick and do not require you to physically tip the device = reduced neck strain 29:00 eSight Go weighs 170 grams for the visor itself, and you can use a longer USB cord 30:00 Device controls explained 32:45 No current ability to input a different signal from that USB but it might be improved in the future 34:00 Digital Tilt replaces the biopic tilt, the nose pads can still be adjusted though 37:00 Audience Chat, waiting list for the device, and how good is its display of Color? 40:00 Does the eSight App still work with the eSight Go? YES! The app can also be a controller. 41:15 Who owns eSight? Gentex Corporation intends to invest in the creation of future devices too 43:00 Discount for customers who have previously purchased older devices, or via Dr referral. 45:15 Vision Forward Association will allow you to visit and test out this and other wearable devices. 46:15 Wrap-Up and Contact info for Jeanette.VonDyck@Gentex.com or (855-837-4448) 48:00 Upcoming produced videos including accessibility of Microsoft Edge browser. 49:00 End Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
0:00 Start 4:30 Skip the Jokes if you DARE! 13:00 Using AI in your daily lives? Office work, Computer Programming, Skills and Teaching. 15:55 Comments from the Live audience: Is it moral to lean on AI for productivity? Skills? 19:55 Gemini as a casual option, Disappointing OrCam Rumors, Alternatives Wearables? 30:00 Demo of prompting Copilot to create a text flyer for an upcoming event. 38:00 Google Gemini Live provides instantaneous real time responses and updates. 42:00 Demo how a teacher can generate a lesson plan for any age range and topic. 47:30 AI as a danger to stability of financial systems, unforeseen assumptions by AI 52:45 Wrap Up Summary and Upcoming Videos + Live shows and events!
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start, Banter and Recent Events 4:30 Production History, physical description glasses, produced video demos 11:30 Wearing the Glasses, Examining the charging Case, how sleek are they? 18:45 Basic commands and trigger phrases, playing music vs identifying music 24:00 Realtime translation and reading text, stylized font, etc 33:30 Product Identification and Follow-Up questions 39:30 Handwriting Test??? 40:30 Object Identification featuring a houseplant and number of chairs in view 42:15 Wrap-Up, How good are these Meta Glasses really? 48:30 Closeout Messages and Upcoming Videos
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 3:15 History, Rules and General Introduction to Wordle 7:45 Laptop Instructions, Visual Settings, Controls 16:15 Actually Guessing and Checking and Trying again! 31:00 Smartphone Instructions, Keyboard controls and Tapping Tricks 38:45 Computer vs Phone? Computer is usually going to be easier to do! 41:15 Wrap-Up Review and Upcoming Events and Videos!
0:00 Start 2:20 Introducing Topics 7:00 Setting up the show, commenter questions and thoughts 10:00 Organization and Customization of the Home Screen 13:30 Rumors of additional Customization including individual App size 19:00 Siri is now better at understanding corrections and commands 27:00 Privacy, Data Management and GPT 43:00 Media Insights with relevant information during pause (Apple's equivalent to X-Ray) 44:00 Rating this year's Conference 47:00 Wrap Up summary of upcoming topics, videos, webinars and more!
0:00 Start 0:35 Banter and Jokes 3:00 Intro for Amos Miller 5:45 What does Glidance mean relative to Guide Dogs? 14:30 Physical Description and Basic Use Cases 26:30 Responsiveness and Real-time Feedback (Checks x10 every second!) 30:30 The Glide can slow you down relative to how complicated the path is 33:00 Goals of The Glide, eventually we want it to be your primary mobility device 34:15 Telescoping Handle, Packing it all down into a small space? Airports and Trains 37:00 Preset Routes, Free Roam, Programming Common Places to set routes 41:00 September 2025 is the launch, The Glide will improve greatly between now and then! 42:30 PreOrder for $900 and sign up for regular zoom sessions and program updates! 44:00 Alternative surfaces: Sand, Gravel, Snow etc 47:00 Wrap-Up Review and Upcoming Events!
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 3:00 Jokes 6:15 Intro Guest: Will Walsh from Pneuma 8:30 The Story of Pneuma, 12:00 Troubleshooting Audio Echo 15:00 RIM through the ages, 2007 until 2010, then relaunched in time for COVID 22:00 How to use RIM, basic uses and case studies from workplace environments 26:00 Using RIM for personal support or tech support. Attended or non-attended options. 27:00 Pro or Enterprising level users can use Target Installers, an Exe that reconfigures the computer 29:00 Receiving help is always FREE to use up to 30 minutes per day. The controller can flip control if necessary. 32:00 Questions from Commenters 3&:00 RIM vs RAM? 43:00 Website and Contact Info, Pricing and upcoming events!
0:00 Start 4:00 Email List Reminder 6:00 The Scope of today's livestream is navigation, not production 9:35 Cory demonstrates YouTubed with his iPhone using VoiceOver 11:00 Opening the YouTube App, Customizing your Feed of recommended videos 14:00 YouTube Home Tabs explained: Shorts and the recent TikTok ban news 16:40 Your account, History, playlists etc 17:30 How to get back to Search, 18:15 Searching for a Channel 23:00 Options while watching a specific video 24:00 Buttons on the screen while it is paused 26:00 Buttons under the video: Subscribe, Like, Comment ETC 35:00 Computer and Screen Reader use when using YouTube 42:30 Once signed in you will have many options on the left side: Subscriptions 49:15 Seek Slider is how you can fast forward, skip ahead and rewind! 52:00 Returning to the Home Screen and general navigational reminders 54:00 Wrap Up and Upcoming Topics
0:00 Start 4:17 Introducing Guests: Sam Seavey and Carrie Morales! 7:07 They each tested the device, AND BOTH RETURNED IT! Here is Why 12:40 Still no Magnifier App! Very disappointing for now, but maybe one day... 20:20 Chat Questions: Is there anything specific that our guests used the Vision Pro for? 23:00 New Gestures: How intuitive are those controls? 35:40 Without a physical phone to feel the screen and borders of, how difficult are gestures? 37:50 Apple Vision Pro's competition! Are there any alternatives on the horizon? 42:40 Meta Quest 2 brings you Beautiful Virtual Worlds, but with Inaccessible Menu Systems. 44:01 What do we hope to see in the future? What does the Apple Vision Pro need most? 48:30 Apple Artificial Intelligence. Is Siri standing still while other AI's improve exponentially? 49:20 Wrap Up thoughts, contact info and upcoming videos and events!
0:00 Start 2:20 Jokes 3:15 What is CSUN? 8:30 Major Sessions: Indoor Navigation, AI, Web Accessibility, 19:30 Brain Computer Interfacing 23:00 Goodmaps Updates and new Scanning Tech for LIDAR 26:25 General Tips and How it was on the Expo floor 28:00 Glidance wheeled mobility aid with multicamera sensors and warnings. 33:00 Stargardt Wearables? Iris Vision 2.0 and Oxsight? 34:00 Case for Vision, cell phone CCTV encouraged by built in legs and mirror 38:10 Biped, shoulder mounted multi camera accessory for mobility aid 39:39 Zoomax Snow Pad 43:30 eSight Go, x24 magnification, neck horseshoe style battery pack. 45:00 Wrap Up, Foreshadowing new videos and next live show in 2 weeks time! 46:00 Eyeglasses for Stargardt's This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes How to Host your own Zoom Meeting! 0:00 Start 2:20 Jokes! 5:25 Introduction 7:20 Zoom.us Step-By-Step Download, Install, Sign In 9:15 We will focus on specifically the Meetings Tab 12:30 Setting the Stage: Date/Time/Reoccurring 27:00 Starting the Meeting! 32:00 Button Bonanza! One by One Explanations 40:00 Avoiding overloading participants with Jaws audio 43:00 Waiting Room Dynamics and Choices as Host. 49:00 Giving power and privileges to participants 52:00 Messaging 58:00 Ending the Meeting 59:30 Wrap Up This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Start 0:00 5:30 Rose Introduction 12:00 Cutting Board Must Haves 19:45 Palm Peeler Tool 29:00 Cutting Gloves and Knife Safety 35:00 Cutting Round Objects 53:00 Wrap Up and Contact info 56:30 Outro Music This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 1:00 Musing on AI Voice Changing 5:20 OrCam Marketing and Dr. Phil 8:00 Modern OrCam Options: MyEye, MyEyePro, Read, Read 3.0 (And another MyEye soon!) 9:30 New OrCam Read 3.0 (Connects to the computer, AI Assistant, Translation, etc) 11:00 Corrine Nero explains the device in detail. 14:00 How to use AI Assistant on OrCam Read 3.0 while plugged into the computer. 18:00 Basic Physical Description of the OrCam Read 3.0 24:00 Corrine step-by-step how to set up and use new features like AI Assistant 27:00 List of Hotkeys/Controls/Buttons for CCTV style enhancement of an image. 29:20 Demonstration of AI Assistant being used on a recipe 33:00 Jimmy Johns Test "How flexible is the AI Assistant?" Unrelated questions too? 35:15 Translation of uploaded documents from over nine languages to your preference. 40:30 Uploading and working with files, storage and data privacy. 45:30 Handwriting recognition can be in English or other languages too! 46:00 OrCam MyEye Pro 3! Now with casting = connect to a computer 47:15 Wrap Up and Contact info. 51:20 End
0:00 Start 1:10 Cory's Vision Backstory and Reminiscing on Old School video games. 7:00 Introducing Jesse Anderson, creating his channel, what content he makes 10:50 Jesse Anderson's Vision Backstory 12:00 The State of the Industry: Accessibility in Gaming 14:00 Developer POV, how is Accessibility considered in an Indie vs AAA Game? Unity vs Unreal 19:00 Comments from the Audience. Visually Prepared Gaming (VPG is an upcoming community) 20:10 Accessing Gaming as a Blind or Low Vision Developer? When will game design itself be accessible? 21:30 Which specific platforms, console, devices, online platforms are generally better than others. 28:00 Which Games do you recommend? What is best for Cory? Other demographics? 30:00 Valve and Steam generally. 35:00 Best XBox Games? Forza Motorsports, Mortal Kombat One, The Last of Us 41:45 World of Warcraft and other older games collect mods over time which can be helpful. 43:00 Doom, specifically Toby as a great example of how older games can be made accessible! 46:00 Shouting out Indie Games such as: Stories of Blossom, and also Brock the Investigator 49:00 Ending thoughts, contact info Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co
0:00 Start 3:30 Carrie Introduction Attempt #1 7:00 Carrie Introduction Attempt #2 Now with audio! 9:00 Why and how did you get involved with Youtube? 15:00 Rebranding with a new Youtube Channel 20:00 Tips on how to create audio/video content with Low Vision / Blindness 24:00 Progress via gaining experience in front of the camera, Live streaming vs edited content? 30:00 Variety in duration, podcasts and long form conversation with live comments 35:00 Best of 2023? Integration of AI into Assistive Technology and future speculation 42:00 AI hallucinations and pitfalls of the current technology, "Where is the helicopter?" 45:00 AI and video? Real time audio description and legal challenges to data collection 48:00 Android vs Apple for Assistive Technology. 52:00 Wrap Up Review, Contact Links, and Podcasts and Youtube Channels Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 6:30 Jokes! 9:00 Jumping into the larger wearable discussion 10:20 Reading Sheet Music with a Wearable Device 14:50 Iris Vision Live 1.0 based on Samsung's VR headset, 16:45 Iris Vision Live 2.0 new headset design and bluetooth remote 19:45 2.0 downsides and limiting factors 29:30 Luke had difficulties adjusting the customization settings, still blurry to him 32:00 Eyedaptic 5 tethered wearable 36:00 Eyedaptic 5 can switch between using the phone's camera or the wearable's camera 39:30 Extra battery options for extended use. 43:15 Haptic feedback 48:30 Wrap up Review! Compare and Contrast the IrisVision Live 2.0 with the Eyedaptic 5 49:45 Speculation on real time feedback using audible obstacle call out, also low tech options 52:45 Tom Perski from Iris Vision foreshadows external fan system, Google Play Store and More! 56:00 Will they continue to update the software of the VIsion Live 1.0? 57:35 End of show wrap up! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 03:00 Introducing our Guests Sam and Peter 09:00 Discussing popular products this year. 15:00 Victor Reader Stream 3 17:00 BeMyEyes vs BeMyAI 25:00 Overstimulation and Tuning things out 30:00 Discussing the Apple Vision Pro 40:00 Rapid-fire: Eyedaptic 5, Iris Inspire, Iris Live 2.0 43:00 Multi-Line Braille Display 48:00 Start of the AT quiz
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 4:30 Guest Audience: Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired 7:00 Be My AI App Introduction 9:00 Comparison to OrCam What's in Front of Me? Feature 13:00 Using Be My AI to scan a menu and ask follow up questions 19:00 Envision Glasses attempts the same task 25:00 Comments from the audience 30:00 Scene Description with empty chair questions 39:00 Be My AI describing an image sent to your phone 43:00 Interpreting handwritten words 45:00 Envision App using scene description (Postponed) 47:00 Final Comparison of Envision to Be My AI 50:00 Closing thoughts and upcoming shows! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 5:50 Luke introduces the device, describing general physical features. 7:00 Different Models and Subscription Plan (Read, Home, Pro, Subscription) 11:20 Gestures and how to use Envision AI Glasses 14:00 Demonstration of Instant Text 20:00 Demonstration of Scan Text 23:00 Demonstration of Ask Envision via Hinge Button and internet 27:40 Demonstration of Call An Ally 35:30 Demonstration of Describe Scene. 40:00 Detect Money and Detect Light 40:40 Find an Object (Coffee Cup, Chair) 44:40 More Features, Batch Scan, Find People, Color Detection 45:50 Demonstration of Explore contrast against Find an Object 48:00 Comparisons to other devices. OrCam, ArxVision, Inspire vs Envision Glasses 52:15 Wrap Up, Plug the new videos, Contact information and upcoming projects! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 2:00 Introduction and Jokes 5:00 Summarizing the new iPhone 15 video 7:00 iPhone 15 physical comparison 10:00 iOS 17 Experience so far, including a significant focus issue 12:30 Contact Posters 16:30 Live Voicemail means you can answer during a message! 25:00 Stickers 25:50 Messages including Automatic check-in texts and Air Tags 28:00 Autocorrect and its downsides 30:00 Facetime Message with a Video 35:00 AirDrop: Facetime Demonstration with Reactions via hand gestures 38:00 Maps: Download offline versions 40:30 Cognitive Overload 42:00 Generate your own TTS from your own voice! 44:00 Magnifier App, some options only available for iPhone 14 47:00 Focus Follow-up Question and AppleVis as a resource for bug updates 50:00 Wrap Up Foreshadowing the Envision AI Glasses for next time! 50:00 End
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 1:00 Jokes, Ice Breakers, News 3:00 Introduction to the Premise 10:00 Setup Instructions 18:00 Cory's personal experience with these devices 20:00 Testing out the Plug via the App 28:00 Color and Temperature changing bulbs 32:00 Use Cases: Outside, Schedule and Getting dropped off 35:00 Setting Routines and making your devices automatic! 44:00 Combo Washer Drier with Smart HQ App 49:00 Wrap Up with Contact information
Episode Notes Notes go here 0:00 Start 06:00 GPS as a stepping off point for all navigation 09:00 Opening, Sign up, Exploration, Favorites, News and Settings 15:00 Exploration Mode deep dive, customable lists of POI 19:00 Filter by walking vs Vehicle mode 21:00 Categories for nearby places and streets 27:00 Navigation App integration. Options for public or private transport. 38:00 Uber Example 40:00 Search Results give Address, Website, Phone Number 45:00 Wrap Up
Episode Notes Notes go here: 0:00 Start 5:00 High level overview of Low Vision uses 10:00 Rundown of the Basic features 15:00 Snip Tool and Read Selected 20:00 Contrast and Color and Kenny??? 25:00 Who is the default setting made for? 30:00 Customizing the Morphic bar and creating new presets 35:00 Making a new button using common landing pages or apps 40:00 Setting up a custom bar created by someone else. 45:00 Customizing the button via color, image, position, text 53:00 Wrap Up We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, August 31st at 11:00 AM CDT for the latest exciting installment of Vision Forward's Tech Connect Live! In this episode we will be learning all about a free computer program, Morphic, that makes it easier to use your computer. Windows and Mac computers have a number of accessible features built-in, but they can be hard to find. Morphic aims to provide a simple solution to make them easy and convient to use. Join Cory and Luke as they discuss and demostrate this solution and find out if it lives up to its claims! We love participation on this show, so make sure to come prepared with your questions, comments, and (most importantly) jokes! We look forward to seeing you then! Find previous Tech Connect Live episodes here: Previous: Orcam Read 3.0: https://www.youtube.com/live/x8jmbTA9_UU?feature=share Before that: LVI Magnilink S: https://youtube.com/live/l6pQvrMs9wA And Before that: Microsoft Teams with a Screen Reader: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z8uVhGXb9oA?feature=share Way before that: "Apple Vision Pro and the Future of Tech Connect Live" https://www.youtube.com/live/iKAqrGbaNuk?feature=share Long before that: "Live Grilling for People with Vision Loss!" https://youtube.com/live/FWUCJe0PWA4 Even Older: "How to use our online learning program" https://youtube.com/live/oD1pW98xr9U Yet Older Still! "Snow 12 vs Compact 10" https://youtube.com/live/_1pG7HEscrE Microsoft Teams with a screen reader https://youtube.com/live/Z8uVhGXb9oA Apple Vision Pro, the future of wearables: https://youtube.com/live/iKAqrGbaNuk Watch on our YouTube Channel
Episode Notes 0:00 Start 7:00 Corinne introduces herself 10:00 Corinne from Orcam demonstrates the features and physical device 24:00 OrCam TTS and Voices, Additional Languages 30:00 OCR of Handwriting 33:00 Summarize via Chat GPT 38:00 Demo of Smart Reading including scanning for info like phone numbers 41:00 Gestures and Voice Commands 45:00 Wrap Up and Contact info. Orcam is well known at this point for creating revolutionary OCR devices that are small, lightweight, and have some of the best OCR in the business. Their latest Read device continues this trend, with added functionality including the ability to summarize a page of text and to wirelessly connect to a computer to display words as they're being read! To guide us through this exciting adventure we will be joined by Corinne Nero from Orcam, so come join us on the show to say hello! And REMEMBER! We love community engagement and participation on this show, so make sure to come prepared with your questions, comments, and (most importantly) jokes! Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here Notes: 0:00 Start 08:00 Physical Features and controls 12:00 Demonstration of CCTV features 20:00 Computer Features, pictures, distance, recording video 28:00 OCR and iOS device connectivity 37:00 Saving and Modifying images with notepad, textboxes and highlights 40:00 Splitting the screen, multitasking. 45:00 Wrap Up and real world examples Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here Show begins at 4:45 What is Teams and what is it useful for? 10:00 Navigating the Teams Layout. 16:00 Activity gets you up to speed on what you might have missed. 17:30 Chat, how to reply, review and start a new video call. 29:00 Taking a step back to slow down and startup Teams from square 1. 33:00 Teams Meeting, from invite to shortcuts to breakout rooms 46:40 Teams as an organizational tool for sharing files for collaboration. 51:30 Files, and how to open and sync them between desktop and one drive folder. 56:00 Wrap-Up Summary and recommended listening if you want to go more in depth. Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Apple's Vision Pro has shaken the internet and its time for Vision Forward to give our thoughts on this exciting development in the field of wearable technology! Join us today as we examine the device's specs and assess its features from a low vision and blindness perspective. 0:00 Start 1:00 Tech Connect Live Show Updates 11:00 Apple Vision Pro Video 20:00 Analysis and Expectations 30:00 Live Questions: Contrasting the Iris Inspire 35:00 The Economics of Apple 40:00 Mobility Concerns 43:00 Social Acceptance 45:00 Wrap Up Review and Contact Info Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Basic Timestamps: 00:00 Start 09:00 Sharky 28:00 Flexible Web 42:00 Smart Glances 50:00 Wrap up Sign off Full Transcription: [Vision Forward] 11:02:14 Welcome to vision forwards, tech, connect, live, connecting you to the world of assistive technology. [Vision Forward] 11:02:20 And now here are your hosts, Corey and Lou. [Vision Forward] 11:02:29 Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello! Hi! [Vision Forward] 11:02:34 Hello! How's everybody doing this morning? It is Thursday, June twenty-first, 2023, and that can only mean one thing. [Vision Forward] 11:02:47 Time, and that can only mean one thing, time for tech talk a little time for tech, connect, live. [Vision Forward] 11:02:54 We potentially are having good Jonathan. If you could confirm my troops, I just heard so over there, hey? [Vision Forward] 11:03:02 He must be Ok. Hello, everybody. Hello, good! So welcome. Hello! Apologist to those on Youtube who did not hear our lovely intro music. [Vision Forward] 11:03:09 Hopefully, we'll get that rectified for the next session. [Vision Forward] 11:03:12 Something always has to go wrong. But luckily this was a fairly minor thing. [Vision Forward] 11:03:17 So that is good, and thank you to everybody who completed our survey as well. [Vision Forward] 11:03:20 With me, too. Yeah, we did send out a survey with requests for ideas about where to take the show's direction, and we are probably going to make some small changes just to improve the show for those who enjoy it, and hopefully bring on that some do you know what the most requested change was go ahead let me know no, more [Vision Forward] 11:03:40 jokes, yes, it was, sadly. People don't seem to like jokes so much the jokes, but more just all of the chatting upfront. [Vision Forward] 11:03:49 So we are gonna try and get into the show a little bit more quickly and apologies to those who did enjoy those well, and I get it. [Vision Forward] 11:03:56 It is when we started this it was during Covid 3 years ago. [Vision Forward] 11:03:59 People, were at home. They had a little more spare time. [Vision Forward] 11:04:01 Yeah, now, people are connecting in the midst of work or whatever they might be doing and so they want to just get right to the information. Totally understand that. [Vision Forward] 11:04:12 So we are going to speed up our beginning. As we keep talking about I know, I think I think we have some further conversation to have, as well regarding show length and topics. [Vision Forward] 11:04:27 Yeah, if you didn't fill out the survey, please do so. [Vision Forward] 11:04:30 It should have dropped in your mailbox. Your email will probably maybe send it out one more time, just to make sure it really is helpful, though, to fill out that survey. [Vision Forward] 11:04:39 We can actually drop it in the comments of this video. [Vision Forward] 11:04:45 Once it gets archived on Youtube, we'll post and PIN that to this, to this session, so that those on Youtube can also have a chance to do that. [Vision Forward] 11:04:55 And it really is helpful. So we appreciate it. And if you really want to confuse us, fill out the survey twice with completely opposite points of view each time really confuses it will skew the results. [Vision Forward] 11:05:09 I assume people can fill it out more than once if they are feeling the fact as many times as they'd like I probably shouldn't have told them that so anyway, today we are talking about jaws, and some of the feature full features. [Vision Forward] 11:05:20 Yes, in jaws. So jaws is a screen, reader, for those who are not aware which is probably no one. [Vision Forward] 11:05:24 I imagine everybody on this show is aware of jaws, and it does have some really nice features that I don't think are necessarily all that explored. [Vision Forward] 11:05:31 Yeah, I think a lot of the features that we're looking to look at today are these features that have been introduced over? [Vision Forward] 11:05:36 Maybe the past 4 or 5 years. They're not really like mainstay features. [Vision Forward] 11:05:41 Everyone sort of jars, I think, is a lot like other programs where there's so much it does. [Vision Forward] 11:05:46 But you really just utilize what you know, or what you've been taught, and some of these other features, like smart glances, flexible web, and and the voice assistant are things that have been introduced more recently. [Vision Forward] 11:06:01 And you just may not have really gotten understanding of either how they work or what they do. [Vision Forward] 11:06:06 And so that's what we wanted to highlight today. [Vision Forward] 11:06:08 I think as a trainer, it's easy to get stuck in a rut with just teaching what you know, and not taking advantage of the newer features. [Vision Forward] 11:06:16 But then that's doing a disservice to your clients. [Vision Forward] 11:06:19 And as a user, I mean, it's the same type of thing. [Vision Forward] 11:06:22 There might be features which you haven't explored, because you are used to using whatever you know so hopefully, this will be some new information for people and make them even more powerful. [Vision Forward] 11:06:30 Screw, read a users just like Corey here I am, Corey, the power man. I am Mr. [Vision Forward] 11:06:35 Screen reader, that my friends, hey, Mr. Screen reader, please tell me that's true. [Vision Forward] 11:06:47 Howdy do you say? Hey, Mr. Mr. So so yeah, what we've got in store call? [Vision Forward] 11:06:51 So we're going to jump in now on the title of this session. [Vision Forward] 11:06:55 We're going to jump in now on our on the title of of this session we included a few different cool features. [Vision Forward] 11:06:58 We included flexible web, touchscreen support, smart glances. Yes, and Sharkey. [Vision Forward] 11:07:06 Yeah. The voice assistant yes. Now, at the top of the maybe I shouldn't say this, but right at the top I'm going to say we're not really going to touch on touchscreen touch on. [Vision Forward] 11:07:16 We're not really going to cover touchscreen support in this session. [Vision Forward] 11:07:19 Number one. I realize that I don't have a touch screen laptop super handy. [Vision Forward] 11:07:24 So it's gonna be kind of. I don't want to just sit and talk about the different gestures. [Vision Forward] 11:07:28 So we will do an upcoming session on touchscreen plus. [Vision Forward] 11:07:31 Actually, I think, touchscreen itself could almost take an hour there's a lot of different gestures and stuff so today we're going to look at 3 specific features that might be overlooked. [Vision Forward] 11:07:43 That's flexible web, smart glances and Sharkey, or the Voices Assistant. [Vision Forward] 11:07:48 So that's what we're going to jump into today. [Vision Forward] 11:07:49 So I will say, even though we are cutting down the intros, we are still going to have a joke. [Vision Forward] 11:07:53 But today, oh, yeah, today, Sharkie is going to jump right in. Oh, well, he's listening to you right away. [Vision Forward] 11:08:01 So why don't we go ahead and jump right into that piece? [Vision Forward] 11:08:04 So 1, 2, 3, 4. Let's did that do it? [Vision Forward] 11:08:10 No, which one is that one. I think it's an excellent luck. [Vision Forward] 11:08:13 Let me. I think you've got the right one. Actually. [Vision Forward] 11:08:14 PC, is that one muted? Now? Yeah, so if you go ahead and use jols here, if people could let us know in the chats whether they can hear jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:08:20 Ok, that would be a problem. I'll just type something oops. [Vision Forward] 11:08:25 Hello! Document one. There we go! Hello, everyone! Everyone exclaim. So let us know. In the chat. [Vision Forward] 11:08:34 If you are able to hear that. Ok, we are making our computer. [Vision Forward] 11:08:37 And I think it should be, okay. Yeah, just let us know. [Vision Forward] 11:08:39 So let's jump in here and just let me know if there's an issue. So they have released. [Vision Forward] 11:08:44 I believe it was in jaws 2021. They are released. [Vision Forward] 11:08:48 A voice assistant for both jaws and for zoom, text, or fusion and jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:08:55 It's called Sharkey is the kind of key phrase, and in zoom it's Zoomie now. [Vision Forward] 11:09:03 First and foremost, I actually sort of like both of them, but I will say I got an issue with the sharky and soothe me. The names. [Vision Forward] 11:09:11 Yeah, I get, why they chose it. But I just got a real issue. [Vision Forward] 11:09:16 I like shocking, because it reminds me of the cartoon shocking! [Vision Forward] 11:09:18 And, George, okay, I'm not sure if you I don't think that was in a American. [Vision Forward] 11:09:21 I wasn't sure. Yeah. So Shaki and George, they were crime fighters, and they were in the sea because Sharkie was a shock. [Vision Forward] 11:09:29 And George. What was George? Just a fish of some sort? I don't have a better way. [Vision Forward] 11:09:32 They swam through the ocean, and solving crime. There's a lot better crime. [Vision Forward] 11:09:39 So so released in 2021 and basically it's freedom, scientific version of the voice assistant. [Vision Forward] 11:09:44 What I wanna do real quickly is just show you where you can go to turn it on, and where some of the settings are. [Vision Forward] 11:09:50 So I'm going to go into my jaws. Menu. [Vision Forward] 11:09:54 Here draws context, menu. And we're going to utilities, utilities, submenu. [Vision Forward] 11:09:58 And actually, let's slow that down, leaving it slower, slower. [Vision Forward] 11:10:01 There we go, joyous context utilities. Submenu. Yeah, we'll go into utilities. [Vision Forward] 11:10:05 Josh Tandon, a voice assistant submit, and the second options. [Vision Forward] 11:10:10 Voice assistant, let's go on in here. Talk to jaws in search, plus alt plus space. [Vision Forward] 11:10:14 Now, here's one method for you to engage the voice assistant is by going in here and actually choosing this option, which I find to be a little bit cumbersome is it a keyboard? Chk? Yeah, yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:10:26 Or just coming right into the that would be great. Yeah. So we're going to go down. [Vision Forward] 11:10:30 Though to settings settings Dot, and let's just take a peek real quick. [Vision Forward] 11:10:34 Enter leaving Menus voice assistant Settings dialog enable voice assistant check box, check, for we want to make sure that this enable voice assistant checkbox is checked. [Vision Forward] 11:10:44 Otherwise we'll be just talking to our computer, and nothing will be happening. [Vision Forward] 11:10:48 Listen for wake word sharky radio. Button checked 2 of 2. [Vision Forward] 11:10:53 So we have 2 options. Here we have listen for the wake word, or we can choose the other option. [Vision Forward] 11:10:58 Listen for wait words, Sharkey radio, button check. So basically, you can choose from. [Vision Forward] 11:11:02 Hey! Followed by the wake word, or just the wake word itself. [Vision Forward] 11:11:06 Litigin so I'm going to choose the one with Hey? [Vision Forward] 11:11:11 Do not listen for weight, ward, checkbox, Snapchat, if you don't want. [Vision Forward] 11:11:15 If you still want to use the voice assistant, either through keyboard shortcuts or another method. [Vision Forward] 11:11:19 But don't want it listening for the wake word. [Vision Forward] 11:11:23 You can uncheck this box or check this box here, enable voice assistant sounds check box check you're going to hear when we give it a command that there is a start listening and end listening sound. [Vision Forward] 11:11:34 If you check you can, you can get rid of those here by doing this check box. [Vision Forward] 11:11:37 If you choose, microphone input device combo box windows, default. [Vision Forward] 11:11:43 If you've got a different microphone that you want to use, either set it to the default, or if you have a headset that you're always wearing, whatever it might be, you can make sure and choose which microphone you want take me to the privacy policy link if you want to go and take a [Vision Forward] 11:11:54 look obviously at their privacy policy. You can do that. Okay. [Vision Forward] 11:11:57 All right, let's do. Okay. We've got it turned down. [Vision Forward] 11:12:00 We're ready to go. So let's just do a couple little quick examples. [Vision Forward] 11:12:03 So we know that the listen word is hay, followed by its trigger word. [Vision Forward] 11:12:09 So we'll do it in a moment, and we'll just start real quickly with the time. [Vision Forward] 11:12:13 Hold on. We still need a joke as well. Oh, yeah, okay, let's start with that. That works. Good idea. [Vision Forward] 11:12:18 All right, we're gonna have our good friend Jaws here. [Vision Forward] 11:12:21 Tell us a joke, since we skipped over the joke. [Vision Forward] 11:12:24 Hey, Sharkey, tell me a joke! [Vision Forward] 11:12:28 What do you call a shark? Who wants to be by himself a lone shark? [Vision Forward] 11:12:33 A lone pair. Very good. I've asked it about 5 jokes. They also heard, as they all seem to be sharp, related. [Vision Forward] 11:12:49 At some point that's got to end. But you can get jokes from it. [Vision Forward] 11:12:56 No good voices. A voice assistant is not a good voice, assistant. [Vision Forward] 11:13:00 If it doesn't tell Joe, I think shocking. [Vision Forward] 11:13:01 The quality of shark. His jokes seem to be better than most. [Vision Forward] 11:13:03 All right. Let's give it one more. Hey, Sharkey, okay, let's try again. [Vision Forward] 11:13:04 Hey, Sharkey, tell me a joke! [Vision Forward] 11:13:07 I love the F. 5 key. It's just so refreshing. [Vision Forward] 11:13:12 Oh, my God! So that was a computer job that was shock, specific. [Vision Forward] 11:13:16 That was actually pretty good. So if you're very geeky like Korea and I, then you might enjoy your show all right. [Vision Forward] 11:13:21 Let's do a couple other real quick ones. Hey, Sharkey! [Vision Forward] 11:13:24 What time is it? [Vision Forward] 11:13:27 1113 A. M. So, like most voice assistants, we can ask it the time we can ask it. [Vision Forward] 11:13:33 The date. That's all good, but we're really more interested in sort of more specific jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:13:38 Youes right? And really the point of this voice assistant is for those who may struggle with remembering keyboard commands. [Vision Forward] 11:13:46 It's obviously it's not like windows, voice, access, voice control, where we can do pretty much everything. [Vision Forward] 11:13:55 This is, there's a lot, but it's still pretty limited on what we have to do. [Vision Forward] 11:13:59 So there's a lot of keyboard commands you still have to remember. [Vision Forward] 11:14:02 But for some of those things that you maybe don't do very often like increasing and decreasing your speech rate, we can do it via Shkey. [Vision Forward] 11:14:11 Hey sharkey! Speak faster! [Vision Forward] 11:14:14 You try again, faster, serious, trying to talk on my watch at the same time. [Vision Forward] 11:14:20 Hey Sharkey, Hey Sharkey Speech, Rate, 60. [Vision Forward] 11:14:28 Hey, sharkey speech rate, 30. [Vision Forward] 11:14:32 30%. So we can do either speak faster, speak slower, or we can give it a specific 30, 56 million dollars per minute, is it? Yeah, I think that's the percentage. [Vision Forward] 11:14:47 I think it might be based offwards per minute. But it's it's in line with what you would see when you go into the jaws settings and change the speech right? [Vision Forward] 11:14:54 So they are in line there, so you can do larger increments if you'd like to. [Vision Forward] 11:14:58 Okay, so let's go. I have a little cheat sheet here that I want to jump back to, because I don't want to forget anything. [Vision Forward] 11:15:08 Tell me. Oh, here's another good one, too. I have a question for you. [Vision Forward] 11:15:13 Yes. What is the keyboard shortcut to test? To find out the battery status of your laptop? [Vision Forward] 11:15:21 Well, I don't know the specific shocker. I would probably go to the notification chevron and open that up, and should be in there. [Vision Forward] 11:15:29 I believe it's inert. Is it? Insert all beer in search control, be insert alt. B. [Vision Forward] 11:15:38 No bookmarks. No, that's not insert control. [Vision Forward] 11:15:39 B control. B, no, that's all. Oh, well, maybe it's shift. [Vision Forward] 11:15:43 Geez! It's been so long now since I've done it A/C connect there it is. Recharge. [Vision Forward] 11:15:47 Insert, shift, B easy, because that's real easy to do with 2 hands, anyways. How about we do, hey? [Vision Forward] 11:15:52 Sharkey, hey, Sharkey? Okay. Third times. A truck, hey, Sharkey Clinton, like Hey, Sharkey, Battery? [Vision Forward] 11:16:06 A/C. Connected, recharging, battery battery, level, high battery, 97% vision forward. [Vision Forward] 11:16:13 That's cool. And again the Internet access as well, too, I will say the the lack of response. [Vision Forward] 11:16:20 Some of the hay sharky commands something you see pretty regularly. [Vision Forward] 11:16:24 With these speech recognition, yeah, then, with hay, Kultana. [Vision Forward] 11:16:27 Sometimes it responds, sometimes it doesn't. It might be better with a headset. [Vision Forward] 11:16:29 Possibly probably would be, I'd also be interested switching it to just the without. Hey? [Vision Forward] 11:16:35 And I'd be curious just saying, sharky, if there'd be much difference. Yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:16:38 So, battery. That's another really cool one, too. [Vision Forward] 11:16:40 Let me jump back to my other faster. Ok, we did that start selection. [Vision Forward] 11:16:47 Oh, here's an interesting one, so let's try this one. [Vision Forward] 11:16:50 There is a way in jaws to when you want to select text, and we know we can just use our shift key in conjunction with any of our text navigation keys and do it that way. [Vision Forward] 11:17:03 But there's also a way to do. Start and start and stop a selection so that you can start selection, and then move to where you want it to be finished selection, and then it'll just select all of what's in there so would you once you said start selection would you [Vision Forward] 11:17:18 move with the arrows. Yeah, exactly. So, for example, let's just type something here. [Vision Forward] 11:17:22 Hello! This is. [Vision Forward] 11:17:28 Lds selections. What works? So let's go back to the beginning. [Vision Forward] 11:17:34 Here. Black Alot. Oh, yeah, Shin forget what I typed for a minute. So I'm on the h here of Hello! [Vision Forward] 11:17:41 So hey, sharkey start selection. [Vision Forward] 11:17:45 Save document before marking place. Oh, that's interesting. Just save it first. Oh, yeah, I guess so, save as banter. All right. That's right. [Vision Forward] 11:17:54 Let's try it again. I didn't know that. [Vision Forward] 11:17:56 Never tried that before. Hey, Sharkey? Start selection. [Vision Forward] 11:18:01 Marking place, all right. So now I'm just going to use my end key and just move to the end of the line real quick blank period. There we go. [Vision Forward] 11:18:08 Now I'm at the end blank. Hey, Sharkey! [Vision Forward] 11:18:12 Hey, Sharkey, finished Selection. [Vision Forward] 11:18:18 Selecting between. Right now, how do I know, though, for sure, that it works? [Vision Forward] 11:18:26 Very good question. Hey? Sharkey? Reed selection. [Vision Forward] 11:18:29 Hello! This is a test to see how selection works. [Vision Forward] 11:18:33 There you go so real quick way to kind of select a big group of texts and then also double check that what you selected actually happen. Do you think that's any easier than using the keyboard to do those things? [Vision Forward] 11:18:47 Yes, if you can't remember how to do it, you know, I mean some of these really. [Vision Forward] 11:18:54 What it comes down to is, if you use a feature, a lot, you're obviously going to know the keyboard command yeah, right? And you'll do it. [Vision Forward] 11:19:02 Now the battery, one to me as a given that it's just easier to do using Sharky, because both going down to the notification system tray or doing the insert shift. [Vision Forward] 11:19:14 B can just be a little more cumbersome, so I think it comes down to how often you use a feature. [Vision Forward] 11:19:20 And are you? Are you more likely to remember? Start selection and finish selection versus whatever the keyboard. [Vision Forward] 11:19:25 I feel like selecting text is one of those fundamental things that you should be able to do. [Vision Forward] 11:19:30 And you're probably doing regularly, you are. But how many people actually use that method versus selecting the whole line or selecting word by word all the way through? [Vision Forward] 11:19:40 You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I think this method is almost a little more advanced method in selection. [Vision Forward] 11:19:46 I never use it to be honest, only it's one of those where I just forget about it. [Vision Forward] 11:19:50 You sort of get. As you mentioned earlier, you get into those kind of ruts, and this is for me. [Vision Forward] 11:19:56 This is one of them where it is a lot easier to do. [Vision Forward] 11:19:58 But I just always forget it's there I find, using voice assistance generally a little bit weird. [Vision Forward] 11:20:03 I do, too. And there is this. It's they're still a little delay that annoys me. [Vision Forward] 11:20:08 But it's like better. It's the delay was worse back in the day, and I do want to mention as well that this v assistant does require Internet connection, because it is using Microsoft Cloud in order to process all these commands and stuff. [Vision Forward] 11:20:25 So if you don't have access to the Internet, your sharky buddy isn't going to work for you. [Vision Forward] 11:20:30 Okay, let's we did those thanks. Let's take a look here. [Vision Forward] 11:20:34 Now at. Let's go to a web page, and that'll feed us sort of into our next one, too. [Vision Forward] 11:20:42 Go to vision forward.org, enter home, page visions. I hear this is a very good website, Corey, one of the best around windows of it. Home. All right. [Vision Forward] 11:20:50 So do you. Do you train individuals to use a list links, list and headings list? [Vision Forward] 11:20:59 I do. I show them how to do it, but also I don't necessarily know how useful they are to a lot of people so yeah, I mean, really, the biggest benefit to them is the first letter navigation but it's again, it's one of those where when I was trained. [Vision Forward] 11:21:17 And got in the habit of using. I just never did them, so I always forget to do them, and then I know the keyboard commands, but I always forget with Instr. F-six, and then F. [Vision Forward] 11:21:26 7 I always get them mixed up. Use them often. I mean, the other thing is if you're going to use first letter navigation that implies that you know the name of the thing that you're looking at. [Vision Forward] 11:21:36 Also, then why not just use virtual find? You could accept? [Vision Forward] 11:21:38 Well, I guess from a yeah, I guess from a keyboard shortcut. [Vision Forward] 11:21:41 It depends on keyboard how many presses you know. Virtual fine is quick as well. [Vision Forward] 11:21:46 You're still going to type in one thing. Yeah. So it becomes, we should do a whole show on which, yeah? [Vision Forward] 11:21:53 So Sharkey will let us do, a voice command. We can say, Hey, Sharkey! [Vision Forward] 11:21:57 Hey, Sharkey, hey! Sharkey list Links! [Vision Forward] 11:22:04 Links, list dialog links list. There we go, so it brings it up as if we did the keyboard command I'll tap my skis key and we can do the same. [Vision Forward] 11:22:14 Hey! Sharkey! Hey! Sharkey list headings! [Vision Forward] 11:22:20 Heading, list we can also get our for you. That's quite useful, because if you forget the insert of 6, insert and sell on which one is which. [Vision Forward] 11:22:27 Yeah, I'm using just you shocking stuff exactly, I believe, instead of 7 is lists. [Vision Forward] 11:22:32 It's already links. I think you might be I think I'm right. Let's find. [Vision Forward] 11:22:36 But now I gotta find out links that nailed it all right. [Vision Forward] 11:22:41 So that's one thing you can do on the Internet with the with sharks like, let's see what else I did that blank list comments. [Vision Forward] 11:22:50 So that's honestly, I mean, you can list tables. [Vision Forward] 11:22:54 You can list, form fields and things like that, but you can't navigate by heading, but you don't. [Vision Forward] 11:23:01 I mean, honestly, you want to hit H. You don't want to say hey, Sharkey? [Vision Forward] 11:23:04 Next, heading. I don't think it works. Please go toward or outlook to use this. [Vision Forward] 11:23:11 Okay, yeah, it does work in in word and outlook. [Vision Forward] 11:23:17 You can navigate by heading. So if you open the links list or the headings list with Sharkey, you have to use the keyboard and that arrow down or hit the first letter that you want, hey? [Vision Forward] 11:23:25 We can do a virtual find with show. You cannot really. [Vision Forward] 11:23:28 I'm surprised, at least not in what I read. You couldn't. [Vision Forward] 11:23:32 I'm not saying, yeah. So it's pretty. It's a bit limiting here on the Internet again. [Vision Forward] 11:23:35 It's really any of these lists, any of these lists from form fields, headings, links, those cable lists, those all have shortcut keys, and any of those you can bring up. [Vision Forward] 11:23:48 If you want. Hey, Sharkey List Tables? [Vision Forward] 11:23:54 No tables. No, we should mention as well that you found a list of these shortcuts on the Freedom scientific structure. Yeah. And I'll show you really quickly. [Vision Forward] 11:24:03 That's a great question. I should have mentioned it. But let me do it right now. [Vision Forward] 11:24:06 And now actually, yeah, we'll show that real quick here. [Vision Forward] 11:24:09 So if I go back into my jaws, menu here and we go back to utilities again. [Vision Forward] 11:24:15 Utilities, Joy's 10, and down to voice, voice, assist! [Vision Forward] 11:24:18 There we go expand, and we went to settings. Last time settings to go. One more getting started. [Vision Forward] 11:24:25 That's gonna take us right into the training material. And in there you're gonna navigate by headaching, and you'll find a heading it breaks it down by general reading word, Internet outlook. [Vision Forward] 11:24:38 And you can take a look at all of those different. That's for one thing, I think with a tool like this, like a lot of the a lot of the kind of usage is just going to be figuring out where it's more efficient to use sharkey, so you're not necessarily going to use [Vision Forward] 11:24:53 every single sharky command. It's going to be a few that help you with whatever you do on a daily basis. [Vision Forward] 11:24:58 We'll give one more quick example here in the word page, vision. [Vision Forward] 11:25:00 Hello, Doc! Doc's word. Okay, so let's do this document here. [Vision Forward] 11:25:05 And what I want to do here real, quick period work selection works. [Vision Forward] 11:25:08 Oh, okay, sk, Ok, so now, I just made a misspelling here. You know, the weird thing. [Vision Forward] 11:25:15 Word hasn't flagged it as a test to see how selection works is. [Vision Forward] 11:25:23 I guess that's a word and there's a capital S excess. It doesn't work. [Vision Forward] 11:25:30 Capital X maybe they're just a way. Okay, okay, let's do pause Z, at the end. [Vision Forward] 11:25:36 That's gonna be a right blank. So it's still no flag. [Vision Forward] 11:25:41 It just try it, though. I don't think it's going to work. [Vision Forward] 11:25:43 But let's try it here. So one of the features we can do is spelling error. [Vision Forward] 11:25:51 There we go. We actually can do one of 2 things. First, we can't spelling errors, and it'll put all theirs in a list for us, or we can say next, spelling error. [Vision Forward] 11:26:01 So if I say, Hey, Sharkey! Next spelling year. [Vision Forward] 11:26:06 The option to check spelling as you type is disabled. [Vision Forward] 11:26:09 Oh, well, that's weird. I didn't I thought that would do that, but that must be. [Vision Forward] 11:26:14 Why, it's not flagging, maybe, anyways, what it will do if you have that feature, turned on which it is by default, it'll just take you to the next misspelled word. [Vision Forward] 11:26:25 Tap your applications, key down, arrow through your spelling options. [Vision Forward] 11:26:29 Hit. Enter on the word you want, and now you've done your spelling. [Vision Forward] 11:26:33 So some people don't like the new revamped spelling and grammar checker in office. [Vision Forward] 11:26:44 So this might be one way of doing it. You can also say next, grammar mistake in in office. So this might be one way of doing it. You can also say next grammar mistake as well. So you can do just more than just spelling can do grammar I think that's a handy feature. [Vision Forward] 11:26:55 The other feature I like, too, is comments. I work with some college-aged students where they all get assignments back with comments. Yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:27:04 And jaws does a good job on it, but there is a command for next comment. [Vision Forward] 11:27:09 Previous comment. So you can just move right through the document, and there's keyboard commands as well yeah, which obviously, all of these things have keyboard commands. [Vision Forward] 11:27:16 All all the voice assistant is doing. Is just tying the words, the phrase you're saying to the keyboard command, if I wonder if I wonder if there is a future where all of this is just done by voice or just thinking can I think the battery? [Vision Forward] 11:27:31 And then it does it. How long it produces Jonathan, how to comment? Yeah, we do it. [Vision Forward] 11:27:40 Which, by the way, if people watch our apple vision pro video, which will be released today or tomorrow. [Vision Forward] 11:27:45 But I think today, by Jonathan, hopefully, today, hopefully, today, at 60'clock but possibly tomorrow at 60'clock. If you watch the apple vision pro video, then you will find out about the eye tracking inside the vision project and what the alternatives for people like me who cannot use my eyes to look [Vision Forward] 11:27:58 at stuff, yeah, it's 40 min long. By the way, so make sure you but we look at the new headset from an accessibility standpoint. So it's pretty cool. [Vision Forward] 11:28:08 Make sure you get your popcorn and coffee or alcoholic beverage. [Vision Forward] 11:28:12 If that is your preference. Alright. So that is Sharkey. [Vision Forward] 11:28:15 That's the voice assistant. There's a more when you look at the voice commands. [Vision Forward] 11:28:19 You're gonna see it a lot does a lot more. [Vision Forward] 11:28:21 I just wanted to highlight some of the most used ones are the ones I think would be most commonly used. [Vision Forward] 11:28:26 But I want to move on. Yes, for those with Zoomtox. [Vision Forward] 11:28:30 You do have Zoomie similar things. So Corey mentioned it before. [Vision Forward] 11:28:32 But yeah, yeah, you can say, Zoomie, or Hey, Zoomie? [Vision Forward] 11:28:35 Increased, magnific. Decrease me, you know those kind of things which I think I mean again, there are keyboard shortcuts for those those probably get used more often. [Vision Forward] 11:28:42 But then again, yeah, so alright. Are you ready to move on? [Vision Forward] 11:28:46 Oh, just one more thing sorry. I just thought, for those who are using screen magnification. [Vision Forward] 11:28:50 They might not know the keyboard as well as somebody using a screen. [Vision Forward] 11:28:54 Reader, show. So maybe for those people the the voice commands are actually more relevant. [Vision Forward] 11:29:00 That might be true. Yeah, I'm on board with you, all right. Next thing, we're going to take a look at is our buddy yeah, flexible web, I find the vision buddy. [Vision Forward] 11:29:12 You don't know anything about flexible web. I think it's where you send your computer to Yoga camp. [Vision Forward] 11:29:18 Is that right? Anyone in that, either in the Zoom chat or you Tube, throw it in there. [Vision Forward] 11:29:25 If you're familiar with flexible web, and if you land it, give me an example of how you use it. [Vision Forward] 11:29:30 Please? Is it where you can get rid of certain elements sort of yes, there's 2 main things. [Vision Forward] 11:29:37 Are are you ready? We're going to use vision forwards. [Vision Forward] 11:29:42 Website here, as an example, we use regions on our website. [Vision Forward] 11:29:48 We've got 3. We got 3 main regions that we kind of work with here. [Vision Forward] 11:29:52 First region is, takes us to the banner at the top of our website, and I think our banner has the shopping cart. [Vision Forward] 11:30:00 And let's take a look here. So I'm going to do an R to move by region list of 3 items. [Vision Forward] 11:30:04 So we have open search, form, search button. We can open up our search link card contents. Our C. [Vision Forward] 11:30:09 0, Lincoln Centre, font, size and change in. [Vision Forward] 11:30:12 So that's what's in the banner. There. [Vision Forward] 11:30:14 So let's say that I never want to deal with that don't ever need it. [Vision Forward] 11:30:20 Don't ever, want to work with that banner. It's just in the way I want to hide it so that jaws doesn't see it. [Vision Forward] 11:30:28 So we're gonna use flexible web to do that. [Vision Forward] 11:30:31 So we're gonna use flexible web to do that. [Vision Forward] 11:30:31 So first, we're going to use our key to move back to that so first, we're going to use our key to move back to that region list of 3 items. [Vision Forward] 11:30:35 And now we're going to do the Layer command. [Vision Forward] 11:30:39 Insert space and [Vision Forward] 11:31:02 Moment, and so I'm going to go over to Ok. [Vision Forward] 11:31:07 Enable flexible web checkbox chat. We want to make sure that that's checked, and it is by default, and we'll do our next enter. [Vision Forward] 11:31:12 How would you like to customize the page, hide an element radio button checked one of 2. [Vision Forward] 11:31:18 So now it's asking me how I want to change it. Here. [Vision Forward] 11:31:21 So we have start hiding element. High didn't know what saying hide, but it's almost saying, Hey, I can't tell. [Vision Forward] 11:31:26 It's pronouncing it where hide an element, or start reading at an element, start reading. [Vision Forward] 11:31:32 Now we're going to do that one next so let's just do hide first. [Vision Forward] 11:31:36 Hide an element. Good! We'll tab over back button next button all right. [Vision Forward] 11:31:40 Enter which of the following elements would you like to customize list, box list one of 4. [Vision Forward] 11:31:45 Now remember when we moved to that banner. It was also a lists. Right? Yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:31:52 So there is a number of 4. Now remember, when we moved to that banner, it was also a list. Right? Yeah. So there is a number of different elements. [Vision Forward] 11:31:56 It's seeing there. So now it's asking us by which element or which element do we want to hide? Now? [Vision Forward] 11:32:00 I don't want to do the list I don't want that which is a little bit more. [Vision Forward] 11:32:06 HTML stuff, but go down Banner region. That's what I want. I want to get rid of that whole region as a whole. So I'm going to go over and choose next next button. [Vision Forward] 11:32:17 Enter select a customization list, box, hide, banner, region, one, and I want to hide it. [Vision Forward] 11:32:20 That's what that's the first options. I'll keep that back. [Vision Forward] 11:32:23 Button finished final finish. All right. It's now been created. Hey? [Vision Forward] 11:32:27 If I go back up to the top of the page, and I do are Maine region. It got right. [Vision Forward] 11:32:33 It's skipped right over, actually that skip over 200 regions main region. There we go. [Vision Forward] 11:32:39 It skipped over that banner region, and it's no longer there. Cly, I have questions. [Vision Forward] 11:32:43 Yes, I have many questions, but before I ask my questions, Sean has a question what were the keystrokes we used to get to the list of sharky commandants? Very good. [Vision Forward] 11:32:53 What you can do is go into your jaws, menu, so that's a little tougher, because it depends. [Vision Forward] 11:32:59 If you run jaws from your system, tray or not, do you run jaws from your system? [Vision Forward] 11:33:04 Tray. Then you're just going to either. Do an insert J, or go to the desktop and hit. [Vision Forward] 11:33:09 Enter on jaws that brings up the jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:33:11 Context, menu go to utilities, then the voice assistant and then down arrow to get started if you don't run jaws in your system train, it's just in your task. [Vision Forward] 11:33:20 Bar alt tab till you get to the jaws window. [Vision Forward] 11:33:24 Go ahead and do your alt, you to bring up the utilities menu down narrow to voice, assistant, expand it down, arrow to get started, Sean. [Vision Forward] 11:33:34 Oh, actually, it was a show! Nice sorry. I just saw the full name. [Vision Forward] 11:33:37 Let's us know if that gave you what you needed, and so for my question, please question number one. [Vision Forward] 11:33:44 Yes, now that we have hidden that region. Yes, does jaws remember, if we close the browser and go back, will that region still be no right now? [Vision Forward] 11:33:53 It's temporary. Ok? So one thing that I'll notice is if I alt f 4 out of the browser. [Vision Forward] 11:33:58 Yeah, it will prompt me to ask me if I want to save it, or if I do my insert actors insert space. [Vision Forward] 11:34:06 Space, X. Flexible web. Dialog. What would you like to do? [Vision Forward] 11:34:09 Create a new customer. Z. Now I can do we try high banner region one from the top with id equals masked head or undue high banner region, one from the top, with save temporary customizations as a rule, radio button Shack. [Vision Forward] 11:34:22 I can now save it as a permanent rule. If I do that now, this is pretty cool. [Vision Forward] 11:34:26 I want to show you this enable flexible web. [Vision Forward] 11:34:29 Next button. Enter the Roomame edit type in 10. [Vision Forward] 11:34:33 We'll just call us R. It doesn't really matter we're just going to name it. [Vision Forward] 11:34:37 List view. How would you like that? List? View, hide, banner, reach how would you like this rule to apply combo box to the current side? [Vision Forward] 11:34:45 So this is to the current site. So that would be this. [Vision Forward] 11:34:51 This this region, I believe, As on every page that would apply to every page, so that would apply it to every. [Vision Forward] 11:34:58 So when it says current site, it really means current domain. So yes, any. [Vision Forward] 11:34:59 Any page on this site or if I down arrow to the current page just to the current page, I mocked. [Vision Forward] 11:35:05 So we'll look at the back button. Finish my favorite now. [Vision Forward] 11:35:11 It's permanently there. So now, if I leave Chrome and come back in, it'll be there. [Vision Forward] 11:35:15 But let me just show you this for a second kind of cool windows. M. [Vision Forward] 11:35:18 Desk. If we go to Microsoft, Edg, let's go to the opening new window address. [Vision Forward] 11:35:24 Insert. And let's go to vision. Borg entered our web page homepage homepage, and I do. [Vision Forward] 11:35:33 Our main region. Amazing? Yes, so cool. It's actually I was shocked when I so it works. [Vision Forward] 11:35:39 It's not so. It's not saved to the browser itself. [Vision Forward] 11:35:44 It's saved to jaw so that it goes across any browser that you're using. [Vision Forward] 11:35:48 It's pretty clever. So that is desktop. Incredible! [Vision Forward] 11:35:51 HP, I didn't actually expect that. No, my only concern with this is, it is pretty advanced, because not necessarily in terms of the key commands, but as you arerowing through the lists, making choices, some of that stuff I could see does get a little bit and I think that's where you [Vision Forward] 11:36:09 know with a trainer you can kind of get from a little bit familiar, more familiar with which ones you should choose. [Vision Forward] 11:36:14 You know some other great examples would be sometimes when you go to a website where you read an article, you'll use your H key, and you will hear the heading of the article, which is great. [Vision Forward] 11:36:26 But then, when you down arrow, you hear share on Facebook, hide all that. [Vision Forward] 11:36:31 So now, next time you go there to any article, usually they all carry the same kind of layout when you do your Hq. [Vision Forward] 11:36:37 And down Arrow, you'll all that will be hin, and you'll get right to your article. [Vision Forward] 11:36:41 That my only other concern is with placemakers, which is another cool jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:36:47 Feature I have had the experience more than once where the place markers disappear, and they are not temporary place markers. [Vision Forward] 11:36:54 They have been saved, but they disappear or, for example, if the web site changes as well that not can also call it. Can you just got to make sure, like when you create place markers. [Vision Forward] 11:37:05 One of the options is in. There is, you know, anchor to text. [Vision Forward] 11:37:10 Yes, and so you always want to use that. But yes, it's not a perfect size. [Vision Forward] 11:37:14 Well, I kind of wonder whether there might be similar issues with this potentially yeah, I don't know. [Vision Forward] 11:37:21 So in this case we hit an entire region. But you can hide just a single element. [Vision Forward] 11:37:25 So just a single link, a single button, whatever you want to do. And then, at any point. [Vision Forward] 11:37:28 Now I saved that, but if I do insert space X. [Vision Forward] 11:37:34 And I find view or change where roles apply radio button check, create a new view, create a new customer's April. Okay? [Vision Forward] 11:37:42 So what's enable flexible finish space if you were okay. So what's the enable flexible space view or change with? [Vision Forward] 11:37:51 And now it's crime, star vision, 0, global opened. What? One currency vision forward.org closed open. Let's open, Jan. [Vision Forward] 11:37:58 Current page, vision forward.org slash! Anyways, I don't want to go through all this, so you can go in and delete that customization at any point as well. [Vision Forward] 11:38:05 So if you set one, and then you're like, Oh, never mind, no, I need it back. You can do it now. [Vision Forward] 11:38:09 Let me do the other side of flexible web. So let's give an example here, where potentially, when you come, I'm trying to think of a good well, I'll just use ours here. [Vision Forward] 11:38:22 Let's use an example here when you come to our web page. [Vision Forward] 11:38:28 If you can't see some living with a vision I'm gonna just move by headings shot for adaptive vision products visited heading level 3 right now, let's pretend, for example, you go to a website and there's a heading that says trending stories. [Vision Forward] 11:38:40 Or or or today's news that heading is always there right? [Vision Forward] 11:38:44 But let's say, when you load that page with jaws, you always just want to start right from that headache right from that link, or whatever it might be. [Vision Forward] 11:38:54 So what you do is first move to it like I just did. [Vision Forward] 11:38:56 Here heading level 3 link shop. So I'm on the shop for adaptive tools. [Vision Forward] 11:39:00 If I do insert space. Space X. Flexible web dialogue, what would you like to do? [Vision Forward] 11:39:06 Creative. And we want to create a new one. Enter, how would you like to customize the page hide an element this time? [Vision Forward] 11:39:12 I don't want to hide. Instead, I'll down Arrow start reading it, and we'll do start reading back. [Vision Forward] 11:39:18 Butt next button enter which of the following elements would you like to customize list box heading level? [Vision Forward] 11:39:24 Shop for adaptive and that's what we want back butt next. [Vision Forward] 11:39:28 Button, enter, select a customization list box, start a heading level 3, one from the top. [Vision Forward] 11:39:32 With text, and we'll leave this at its default. [Vision Forward] 11:39:35 Here, back, button finished Button. Now, if I refresh this page F. [Vision Forward] 11:39:41 5, 3 regions. That reminds me of the jokes in 20. [Vision Forward] 11:39:46 -five. There's 4 smart lunch highlights visited heading level, 3 link shop and it immediately took us right to that headache. [Vision Forward] 11:39:54 So this is really powerful. If you really think from not only a personal, if they're sites, you go to all the time where you always think from not only a personal. [Vision Forward] 11:40:06 If there are sites you go to all the time where you always have sites, you go to all the time where you always sites all the time we use Emr system electronic medical records all the time, and if I could set it up so that flexible web where I can say no every time you load this page I want you [Vision Forward] 11:40:18 to go to this exact link or this heading, how much it can really save time, you know, getting places quicker. [Vision Forward] 11:40:27 This is a really awesome feature. Yeah, yeah, this to me, I think flexible web. [Vision Forward] 11:40:32 All of the ones we are going to look at today. To me this is the one that has the the biggest impact. [Vision Forward] 11:40:37 Does have a little bit more learning curve. Kind of behind it, and might be one of these where? [Vision Forward] 11:40:45 Where? Where, as a trainer, maybe, you help an individual set a month but once you start to get the groove and start to utilize them, you really can get rid of so much of that cruff and junk in a website, that you just don't need I think some of the only confusing part [Vision Forward] 11:40:57 is really some of those. HTML options that you have, because when you're listening to those, I just feel like if you don't understand. [Vision Forward] 11:41:05 HTML, then that's going to be the good news is you don't need a dose of them. [Vision Forward] 11:41:09 You don't know but you're right. Just learning to disregard exactly. [Vision Forward] 11:41:12 Yeah, wonderful. I can imagine implementing for some of this stuff like you could be a parent. [Vision Forward] 11:41:19 And your kid wants to access a website. But there's certain things on that website. [Vision Forward] 11:41:22 You don't want them to have access to. Yeah. So then you could obviously hide those elements so they don't have access to that. [Vision Forward] 11:41:28 And also for users who maybe aren't so proficient with their screen reader, as a trainer you could simplify websites that they want to use to make it easier than to navigate. [Vision Forward] 11:41:39 And then you could then start to unhigh as I get more and more, and you introduce more and more. [Vision Forward] 11:41:44 So you're still using the same page versus going to new pages that are more complex. [Vision Forward] 11:41:48 You still use the same page right now you're showing the relationship of okay. [Vision Forward] 11:41:53 Now, I'm unhiding this and this is how you interact. [Vision Forward] 11:41:55 So yeah. Very quick question. So if we hide the region which we did at the start here I assume that that region won't appear no matter how we're navigating. [Vision Forward] 11:42:03 So if we're navigating by, we don't want using the. [Vision Forward] 11:42:07 I don't believe so. Let's just try from the top real quick by down arrow. [Vision Forward] 11:42:10 Same page, length, main region. Directly. I just judge right to try and spare over that. Yeah, be excellent. [Vision Forward] 11:42:15 You got it. That's really cool. Yeah. Good job, freedom, scientific. [Vision Forward] 11:42:19 Ready to go all right. So we've got really one last one here to take a look at that's smart glance, smart glances. [Vision Forward] 11:42:29 This was a more recent addition. You might notice it when you've loaded up a new page in web pages, that when it reads the kind of summary. [Vision Forward] 11:42:40 So let's see, actually, does it read the summary here? [Vision Forward] 11:42:41 Do we have smart glance? That's fine. Let's find a home page. [Vision Forward] 11:42:47 Vision Forwardword, 3 regions, 14 headings in 21 links for smart Lens. [Vision Forward] 11:42:55 So basically, what smart glances are is that jaws looks at a web page, and it looks at the font attributes of the page. [Vision Forward] 11:43:03 It looks at different font emphases or styles, or colors, and then it sees how often it's used, and the more unique, so the less often it's used, the higher ranking it gets and the reason for this is what they're assuming is that the developer of a website [Vision Forward] 11:43:24 has taken a piece of text and used maybe a background color or a bold font, to draw your eye to that piece of content on the web page. [Vision Forward] 11:43:36 Yet it's not a heading for you to just use your Ht. [Vision Forward] 11:43:40 To get to, and so what they've done then is that that it, as it sees these, and you know, realizes, okay, this is only used a couple times. [Vision Forward] 11:43:51 Then it creates kind of what they call consider a smart glance for you to quickly glance or move around that page to see something when you and I talked about this Corey, I suggested. [Vision Forward] 11:44:03 Maybe this is this is at its best for websites that haven't been designed very well, because you would assume if the eye is being visually directed towards something on the page, it should really be a heading, because it's in a piece of information. [Vision Forward] 11:44:20 I agree. So I want to use it on ours here, because I don't know what it's considering and I want you to sort of tell me the key that we use is Y, the letter Y is what moves us through smart glances. [Vision Forward] 11:44:34 So if I do, y meet Jayie and learn more about her journey with vision loss. [Vision Forward] 11:44:38 That was not a heading. No, but is it bold or different colour? [Vision Forward] 11:44:44 It's definitely bold, and I'm not sure whether it's a different font. [Vision Forward] 11:44:48 But it's definitely bold. Why, again, first name started. [Vision Forward] 11:44:51 It required. So now it's moved to this form here, and so I don't know if the first name is maybe because of the star. [Vision Forward] 11:44:57 I'm not sure why it considers this to be. [Vision Forward] 11:45:00 I can't really tell last name starting. Obviously, the other one is a stop email star. [Vision Forward] 11:45:08 And it requires that's 3. So there's one more no tapes. If I did, if I hit the right key, that would be helpful. [Vision Forward] 11:45:12 First name start last name, email, stop wrapping to top. [Vision Forward] 11:45:15 That was all of them. That's right. So that's what's smart glances are, at least on our webpage. [Vision Forward] 11:45:23 Let me get show you a freedom. Scientific. The example they give. [Vision Forward] 11:45:27 We go to their website. [Vision Forward] 11:45:30 Calm, enter blank. [Vision Forward] 11:45:33 Downloads. Sure. Oh, I didn't go to their home. [Vision Forward] 11:45:36 Yeah, visited. Link Graphic. Enter home, page. Here we go. [Vision Forward] 11:45:40 So there's let's see what they have here. [Vision Forward] 11:45:42 First of all, let's find out if they have any, so I'll just do a quick refresh freedom, scientific high-quality, video magnifiers, braille displays screen magnification software. [Vision Forward] 11:45:53 And number one screen. Reader, choice, freedom, scientific high quality, video. [Vision Forward] 11:45:58 Oh, that's the longest title at any website has ever had. They should know about it. [Vision Forward] 11:46:03 Oh, yeah, they should. Ok, there are glances. We're going to cut the middle man. [Vision Forward] 11:46:08 Just tell you that there are glances. We're going to cut the middle man. Just tell you that there are. So I'm going to hit y and find out what so there they have one called. [Vision Forward] 11:46:12 Yeah, that's called today. And if then, if I down Arrow Link 1, 804, I get their phone number. [Vision Forward] 11:46:21 Yeah, so that cold today is visually is a different color. [Vision Forward] 11:46:22 But it's not a heading no, no, not a heading. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:46:25 So that's basically smart glances where jaws will just look at the webpage. [Vision Forward] 11:46:31 Determine if text is emphasized in some way, and if it is, then it brings it in as a smart glance. [Vision Forward] 11:46:39 So that you can kind of skim through and just get an idea of potentially some important pieces of the website. [Vision Forward] 11:46:47 That again. Maybe. Aren't navigated by heading or somewhere else to get some other methods. [Vision Forward] 11:46:55 I do wonder how useful that is, you know, whenever I say a thing is not useful, and it's never used. So many people. [Vision Forward] 11:47:01 Yeah, so I would love other people's opinions. How are you using smart glances? [Vision Forward] 11:47:07 I don't see it as super and intuitive. [Vision Forward] 11:47:13 Not that it's not intuitive. I don't see it super useful. [Vision Forward] 11:47:14 Yeah, what are you gonna find? That's not consistency. [Vision Forward] 11:47:17 There isn't the only upside to it is, is it? [Vision Forward] 11:47:21 Is a quick way to to, you know a sighted person would bring up this freedom. [Vision Forward] 11:47:26 Scientific webpage, and your eyes would be drawn to that. Call me right. [Vision Forward] 11:47:29 Yes, because it's there. So now I can do the same thing, and I can use a keyboard command to see what the developers wanted. [Vision Forward] 11:47:39 People's eyes drawn to. So it does give me more information. [Vision Forward] 11:47:44 It gives me more ways to navigate, to maybe potentially find important information. [Vision Forward] 11:47:49 And obviously smart glances is new. So there's been many other ways that we could have found this stuff as well in the past. [Vision Forward] 11:47:55 I would have come here done a virtual fine type. Call, enter, call today, and got right there, too. [Vision Forward] 11:48:03 So again it, but it was one key press versus 5 key Presses. [Vision Forward] 11:48:08 So yeah, that's fair. I think, yeah, it's one of those things it's easy enough to do. [Vision Forward] 11:48:13 So if you're on a website, you can just press your Mickey a few times. See what's there. [Vision Forward] 11:48:17 See if there's anything interesting. I think it's underutilized, and probably a lot of trainers potentially don't do this is, I think, when a when a new website is loaded up, I think taking that moment to use the Y key and the R key to move by regions can give you [Vision Forward] 11:48:36 a really quick idea of what how this page is laid out and what's potentially important, and what's not. Yeah. [Vision Forward] 11:48:44 You know, the Y is obviously going to give you these smart glances. [Vision Forward] 11:48:46 The R is going to move through the regions quickly, and you're going to find main navigation main, construct footer, and it just gives you an idea of what sort of on this page are not not so much what's on the page. [Vision Forward] 11:48:57 But how it's laid out and grouped together. You can start to build that visual map, and it's quick, and then from there use your Ht. [Vision Forward] 11:49:06 Or however else you choose to kind of navigate. So these features are available in jaws 2023. [Vision Forward] 11:49:15 Yeah, I don't remember. Let's do it right now. [Vision Forward] 11:49:18 So flexible. Web has been out forever you're stuck in a dialogue box. [Vision Forward] 11:49:24 At the same time no button enter freedoms control. Let's do Josh Smart, the one that's his turn the back come out. [Vision Forward] 11:49:35 The linked search was, what's new in videos? What's new in jaws? [Vision Forward] 11:49:38 2,023, okay, 3, so 2023, for smart glances. [Vision Forward] 11:49:43 Voice assistant who's 2021 flexible web, I think, was even before that. [Vision Forward] 11:49:47 It's been around for a bit. So yeah, so most of these are going to be if you're up to date, then you're obviously good to go. [Vision Forward] 11:49:56 But even if you've got an older one, you might be Ok. [Vision Forward] 11:49:58 Depending on how old your version is, and for those of you who are not up to date, don't forget that freedom scientific do have a subscription plan, and for those of you who are not up to date. Don't forget that freedom scientific do have a subscription. Plan. [Vision Forward] 11:50:09 Now where you can pay $90, convention sales and stuff. [Vision Forward] 11:50:13 Yes, I saw an old post on blind bgains from 2015, where they were selling jaws, licenses for $75, and magic licenses for $50. [Vision Forward] 11:50:24 Can you believe that? I think, when that was, I think, right when they started doing the subscription type? [Vision Forward] 11:50:28 It was a yeah. That must have been the deal of the century. [Vision Forward] 11:50:31 Anybody there was a conventions, anybody who was there. Let us know what you've got. [Vision Forward] 11:50:38 Apparently they had offers of Braille displays as well, but I doubt they were $50 that's not going to be cool, though. [Vision Forward] 11:50:44 So yes, so that was an overview of some of what I think are some can be useful jaws. [Vision Forward] 11:50:52 Features, yet are probably overlooked in most cases. So again, for on Youtube throw in the comments how you might use some of these, or, if you do, zoom, if you're connected, live, throw it in the throw it in the chat real quick. [Vision Forward] 11:51:06 If you've got any other questions, or I'd be curious if you know, maybe, how you use them as well. [Vision Forward] 11:51:11 Yes, me, too. And I definitely learned a lot today. Corey. [Vision Forward] 11:51:15 Thank you. I did. That's good. That's really the purpose of this. [Vision Forward] 11:51:18 It's just a trailing. Well, when we sat down, we're like, why should we do this? [Vision Forward] 11:51:23 And then you're like, I don't know anything and I said, All right, let's do a live session teaching you disclaimer. [Vision Forward] 11:51:28 That is not what they are. They could have done them so. [Vision Forward] 11:51:32 Yes, that is the end of our session for today, and we are going to like, say, we are going to have a conversation about our future format, and I expect that we will communicate. [Vision Forward] 11:51:42 Don't be afraid. We're not going. We're not going to disappear, not going any. We're just gonna we're gonna make it better. [Vision Forward] 11:51:48 That's really what it is. We want to give the people what they want. They. [Vision Forward] 11:51:52 Yeah, I want 24, 7, streaming like a news channel. [Vision Forward] 11:51:57 So yeah, we'll probably send out the survey again as Corey said, and if you haven't responded to it, then any thoughts would be appreciated. [Vision Forward] 11:52:03 It doesn't take too long to fill out. So we just want to get an idea of what people are looking for with these sessions. [Vision Forward] 11:52:08 So hopefully. Today it was helpful. And in 2 weeks time I'm afraid our schedule has gone a little bit off the tracks. [Vision Forward] 11:52:14 Here. So I'm not 100% sure what we're going to be doing. [Vision Forward] 11:52:18 Yeah, I mean, we at some point this summer. We're coming back to my house again. [Vision Forward] 11:52:21 We got a new basketball hoop. I'm going to show Hug where it's accessible. [Vision Forward] 11:52:25 But I don't know. Yeah, we have kind of jumped around a little bit. [Vision Forward] 11:52:30 So again, quick reminder, head over to our tech, connect website, tech, connect that vision, dash forward.org, create a free account. [Vision Forward] 11:52:40 You have access to all of these sessions, archived, and you can see what's coming up. [Vision Forward] 11:52:46 We'll be posting our next session that should go up tomorrow, so you'll see what's coming up, and you can just kind of keep updated with everything we're doing and all of our past stuff, both through 2023 and all of last year, 2022 they're all up there [Vision Forward] 11:53:04 as well. And we do have a Youtube also, it is Youtube com, forward, vision forward, tech, connect. [Vision Forward] 11:53:11 And that is where you will be able to see our latest video on the Apple vision pro when it releases today or tomorrow. [Vision Forward] 11:53:18 And you can also see that on the Lms. As well. [Vision Forward] 11:53:21 That's true. So you can see that in either of those 2 places. [Vision Forward] 11:53:23 But if you happen to check out that video, we definitely would appreciate any likes and comments, because those always help with the algorithm and the apple vision pro for those who are not aware of it is a pretty cool piece of tech, and we speculate on whether it might be good from a low vision. [Vision Forward] 11:53:37 Wearable perspective, so there is no clear sign from Apple as to whether they might have any features that were turn it into a low vision, wearable. [Vision Forward] 11:53:46 But it's fun to speculate. Nonetheless, it is yes, so make sure you keep attuned to that channel for that video. [Vision Forward] 11:53:52 Diane says I missed the jokes. Very sorry, Diana. [Vision Forward] 11:53:55 I miss the jokes as well, but I think we still will do a joke. [Vision Forward] 11:53:58 We're just not going to take 20 min to get into the. [Vision Forward] 11:54:03 But the audience didn't seem to like it as much. [Vision Forward] 11:54:08 So we are trying to tailor these to make as many people happy as possible. [Vision Forward] 11:54:12 So then fill out the survey, and let us know that you really want our long intro with multiple jokes, and we'll see how we'll see how we get on. [Vision Forward] 11:54:20 Once we've tallied all the results of those surveys. [Vision Forward] 11:54:22 But for the moment goodbye. We will look forward to seeing you in 2 weeks, and I hope you have a great couple of weeks bye, for now see ya! [Vision Forward] 11:54:35 And so. [Vision Forward] 11:54:43 Thanks for joining us for another tech, connect, live. If you enjoyed Corey and Luke's antics, be sure to join us next time, for all things. [Vision Forward] 11:54:52 Tech connect, go to vision 4 with org slash, tech, connect. Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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Episode Notes Spring begins again! But as the snow melts and birds return to frigid Wisconsin, our pair of Assistive Technology Specialists embark upon a migration of their own. One which will take them far beyond the sunset in search of innovation. Their destination? CSUN 2023, an annual Assistive Technology conference held in California. Cory and Luke documented their experiences while “abroad” and we here at Tech Connect will be bringing you up to speed on all the exciting news and intriguing tech over the next few weeks. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of it. Until then, Cory and Luke take a break from the busy convention room floor and whirlwind interviews in order to provide our subscribers with an update and tease a few of the more interesting discoveries. There were many assistive tech companies representing their new products and updates. Among them are: Morphic, Orbit Research, Patriot, Goodmaps, Orcam, AwareWolf Gear, and many more! 0:00 Start 4:00 CSUN future videos 5:15 Jokes 10:15: Morphic 18:45 Graffiti Plus 11:27 Optima 28:45 Vispero Optelec Compact 8 33:35 Patriot Voice EZ 38:00 Misc Questions: ChatGPT 4, BeMyEyes, etc 39:10 GoodMaps indoor Navigation 48:55 Orcam Read Stand and Speaker Bundle 51:25 Sedona Dave and the All Terrain Cane of AwareWolf Gear 54:45 Retinal Projector for Astigmatism and Glaucoma and more! 1:02:25 Wrap Up maculardegeneration #lowvision #visuallyimpaired #glaucoma #legallyblind #CSUN #california #wisconsin #hotel #convention #conference #floor #exhibit #event #events #orcam #AwareWolf #gear Call us: 414-615-0103 Email us: techconnect@vision-forward.org Visit us online: https://www.vision-forward.org Online Store: https://www.vision-forward.org/store Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Notes go here 11:03:35 Welcome to vision forwards, tech, connect, live, connecting you to the world of assistive technology. 11:03:42 And now here are your hosts, Corey and Luke thank you for being here, so thank you for being here. 11:04:22 So thank you for being here. 11:04:28 So thank you for being here so thank you for being here. 11:04:34 So thank you for being here so thank you for being here. 11:04:41 So thank you for being here so thank you for being here it's it's been a wild ride through January and February. 11:04:56 That's a so innovative applause. Our live audience. 11:05:05 They are it's a it's so. They're no longer a live audience. So they are no longer a live audience. 11:05:26 If everybody is having an excellent day today, it is March second. 11:05:40 Can you believe that it's already East to season? It's been a. It's been a wild ride through January and February. 11:06:12 It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, I know that there was blizzard conditions, and that was a big thing in California. 11:06:16 And like, was it la, maybe, or somewhere, I don't think they did. 11:06:21 No. So yeah, if you're in la then let's know how happened. There. 11:06:25 But otherwise you can always just communicate other things in the chats, because we do love audience and participation, especially when we have guests on as we do today. 11:06:33 Today we are joined by a freak he is joining us from table, and he will make the table one a braille keyboard for smartphones, and we're gonna be talking all about that today. 11:06:45 Frank, if you would like to say Hello, there we go. We got exactly what we asked for break. We didn't find out. 11:06:46 Hello! Good afternoon. Morning! 11:06:51 Where? Where are you connecting for us? 11:06:52 I'm currently in the Netherlands in. It's like the South Midlands. 11:06:57 That's where I'm calling in from. Yeah. 11:06:57 South of the Netherlands okay, excellent, yes, very good. 11:07:01 Well, that sounds like a nice place to go on vacation, but we are stuck here in Milwaukee sadly but thankfully, due to the power of the Internet. 11:07:09 We are able to connect with you over all of that distance, and we're excited to hear today what you've got to tell us about the table one. 11:07:16 Now a quick question for you, because we didn't have long before the show to to talk about what was gonna happen. 11:07:22 Do you have a table? One braille keyboard with you? 11:07:25 Currently. 11:07:26 Yes, yes, I have one here in my hands right now. 11:07:29 So I have one. 11:07:29 Oh, wonderful! And I'm hoping we can get some kind of demonstration during the show today. 11:07:35 Yeah, of course. Of course. Happy, too. 11:07:34 Is that so? Is that gonna, be possible? Hey, yeah, okay, I'm all prepared yes, yes, that's like a prepared guest. 11:07:41 Me too. Me, too, all right, before we get into the meat and potatoes. 11:07:45 Of course we do have to have our joke section of the show. 11:07:49 Yes, everybody's favorite. Just before we do that, though I think it's no Amy apologies of my pronunciation is bad. 11:07:57 But no, Amy, I'm gonna go with that. Says we have slow flowers. 11:08:00 Slow flow is, we have snow flowries in L. Passo tacta, Texas. Wow! 11:08:05 Was it last year that Texas had the snow it was that it was not really snow. 11:08:08 It was the ice right where everything was freezing out right they, the grid, went down and used the flame throwers from helicopters on the winter buy, are you lying? Oh, yeah, they were iced over, and they have but tons of people's pipes exploded. 11:08:27 As they didn't have heat, and I don't think they weren't their pipes weren't kind of prepared. 11:08:31 Yeah, I will say one thing about the Midwest, even though the weather here sucks in the winter at least, it's just very well organized for that sucky weather. 11:08:41 Yeah, exactly. So like you get the snow plows out. The roads are cleared really quickly, and yeah, they do a really good job. So thank you. 11:08:46 To all of our all, of our industrious snow flowers, and other such people for doing such a wonderful job. 11:08:52 Do you think we have any people who drive snowplows listening to the show? 11:08:56 But I guess I've trained a lot of blind people, but no one's ever had a vocational goal to drive a snowplay. 11:09:06 That's interesting. We should probably push for that. 11:09:09 I think this is a good one would be pretty safe doing it. You got the biggest vehicle with a big I like out in front so you're not gonna hurt yourself, you know, if other people are gonna drive into you. 11:09:16 That's that will guess, and it's a short term employee alright. So jokes for today. I, as somebody reliably told me that it was sent Patrick say, coming up in a couple of weeks weekend is that so we're going to be a season. 11:09:29 During is it? Yeah, maybe. Thank you. Oh, is it the weekend that we get? 11:09:34 Remember. So the point is, I have a St. Patrick's Day joke prepared 11:10:01 Patrick drive all the snakes out of Ireland. 11:10:04 Hmm, because maybe he didn't like snakes. 11:10:07 Couldn't get a bus. I was gonna make a Druid joke, but you can. 11:10:16 Maybe he didn't like couldn't get a bus. I was gonna make a druid joke, but you can maybe tell me. 11:10:16 I have 0 clue where this is going. Yeah. 11:10:19 Hire, ran out of gas well, yeah, you basically drive the snake you know, you're on the exactly the right track. The answer was, it was too far to walk. 11:10:31 You're all on the exactly the right track. The answer was, it was too far to walk. Thank you. 11:10:35 They'll be here all week, or maybe it should have been Jonathan. I believe that you had a joke for us as well. 11:10:41 Yes, you know there was a newsletter that was being passed around saying that they were trying to get contestants for us. Yes, you know there was a newsletter that was being passed around saying that they were trying to get contestants for a tramp spring. 11:10:53 Time. Oh, okay. Get worse every single week. 11:11:04 It's so. I mean, you know what it takes talent to get jokes. 11:11:06 This bad every week, we should call. Tell me why so? And see if he wants to come on. 11:11:09 Oh, yeah, I think he is on the Sunday to fare me apart. 11:11:14 All right, Frank, so I let you tell us a little bit. 11:11:17 Why don't we start off with a little bit about the company which which you work for, which make it the handle? One? 11:11:22 And I believe the company is just called heel. If you'd like to tell me if I might, and tell us all about it. 11:11:27 Yeah, yeah, we're not very original. I think it's it's a typical book straight to just keep it very basic. 11:11:31 Hmm, yeah. Why not? 11:11:36 Yeah. Makes a lot of sense. 11:11:33 So go pretty school table. But it was our first 4 deck, so let's call it table One. 11:11:39 Yeah. So Uhable started around 4 years back. 11:11:43 So we're still considered the startup launched the 4 years back. So we're still consider the Startup Launch Company in an Ellen was launched by my co-founder and me. 11:11:53 comes from India, and has lived with his grandfather his whole life, and his grandfather is blind, and he saw first hand, like Hey Mike, and forgot to use his phone at all, and maybe there's something we can develop. 11:12:03 Very cool. 11:12:01 To make it easier for him. And that's the reason why we why we're here, why we started, and since then yeah, we've developed the able one initially as the first product. 11:12:13 Yep. 11:12:14 And that's been around 2 and a half years to develop it. 11:12:17 We launched it in September 2021, and now we're already in. 11:12:21 I think it's now 12 countries around the world where we're distributing it. 11:12:25 And we have thousands of happy users. So that's hmm! 11:12:26 That's really cool to hear. How did you meet with your co-founder? Then? 11:12:31 Yeah. So he was in a pitching competition as a startup competition. 11:12:36 And he was pitching really bad. So I told him, Hey, I can give you some advice. 11:12:40 So he didn't like me initially. 11:12:43 But no, we, that's where we met. And I said, Hey, I really like what you're doing. 11:12:48 I have some perception with it. Let's see if this is really a good idea. And if multiple people hate us when we're starting this. And that's how we got started, then, just both with the same motivation. Yeah. 11:12:57 Very cool. So for yourself, then this isn't. This isn't driven for you. 11:13:01 A per se from people that you know who are blind. You just saw it and thought that this was a great idea, and wanted to kind of roll with it. 11:13:09 Yeah, yeah, so luckily, we, I think a few weeks into like, working together, we just said, Okay, we really can't do this ourselves. 11:13:18 We just have to go to as many people we would want to use it as possible. 11:13:21 Yeah. 11:13:22 And that's what we did from the start and we're still doing. 11:13:26 Yeah, brilliant. 11:13:24 I still meet our users a few times a week that's our close by. Just to really say, what can be better, what do we need to update future products? 11:13:32 And that's, I think, been the reason why things are going so well just because of yours interacting so much with everyone that's using it. Yeah. 11:13:36 Yeah, I think that's very important. We were talking with Anatson, Norman last 2 weeks ago. 11:13:42 Hmm! 11:13:45 Yeah. 11:13:44 Yeah, and that as part of a company who have a phone called the real Sam. Yeah, you've got it. 11:13:50 Yeah. 11:13:50 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so, so, yeah, she was also saying the same thing with regards to end users and getting their feedback. 11:13:57 And you know, it's a really important part of the process, for sure. 11:14:00 I think that's it's such an important like, especially if you don't have. 11:14:03 If your founder or staff members aren't blind or visually impaired yet you're developing products for people who are going to use that people who are blind and visually impaired, you have to have that constant connection. 11:14:14 Yeah. 11:14:16 Otherwise, then you mean, how do you know what you're developing is the right thing? 11:14:22 Yup! 11:14:30 Excellent! 11:14:21 Yeah, also for us, we now growing as a company, and we were able to hire the first people, and we had to have people who themselves are visually impaired on our team because it's just crucial for us to grow. 11:14:34 And to make sure we're developing the right thing. 11:14:35 Yeah, that's that's really good to hear. 11:14:36 Yeah, yeah. 11:14:38 So how how many people do you have in the company at this time? 11:14:42 Oh, I hope I don't see it I think it's 9. 11:14:46 But yeah, yeah. 11:14:45 Okay, excellent, very good. And you're distributing in the, they say, 11 different countries. 11:14:51 Is that right in 12 countries? Wow, that's really pretty impressive. Yeah. 11:14:51 12. I think it is. Yes, yeah. So that's. 11:14:55 So I was on. I was on the website early on. And I did notice that. 11:14:59 Yes, when you, when you click on the the buy button, it brings up a list of different countries, and then you can choose a country that you're in, so you can find a suitable suitable distributors. 11:15:09 Exactly. Yeah. 11:15:09 So very nice. Yep. And I did also notice the website was available in English and French, yeah, is that for the Canadian market or? 11:15:18 Yeah, parsley. So we're both in France and in Canada. 11:15:22 Uhhuh. 11:15:22 But to be honest, the reason why, that's the G, because we just switched our website. 11:15:26 I think 3 weeks back, and we're still we still need to also bring in the other like cause. 11:15:31 We had 6 or 7 languages. So when you still need to bring them back, yeah. 11:15:30 Okay, I got you, yeah, yeah, sure. Okay, I understand. Cool. So just I'm gonna put this in the chat right now. 11:15:37 Seems that we're talking about it. So the the web address is, I am able.com. Is that correct? 11:15:41 Yes. Exactly. Yeah. 11:15:45 Yes. 11:15:42 Yes, I am. Andable is h a, b, l, E. And is that? Is that an acronym at all? 11:15:49 Is that stamp for anything, or just? 11:15:51 Well how we came up with the name he was speaking. 11:15:53 Yeah. 11:15:55 Well, first of all, we just use Google. Translate it to some words in it, and then, you know, the language is still. 11:16:00 Something sounded nice. That's that's the almost answer. 11:16:00 Sounds like a a band name, Creator. 11:16:03 But what I? What I tell, yeah, but what we tell people is what we say. 11:16:10 So we have a Hubble, which in Spanish means speaking, and if we pronounce it likeable, it has able in there, because we enable people to use technology. 11:16:16 Yes, yeah, that makes sense. 11:16:18 So that's yeah. So I am able. I'm able to use technology. 11:16:22 That's where it's kind of cool. Yeah. 11:16:21 Very cool, so hold on, though. So are you telling me that the justification for the name came after you had decided what the name was isn't it? How much? 11:16:28 Usually this is last case I've been come on, that's I. 11:16:28 Hmm, yeah, it's like reverse engineering it a little bit. But please fix that when you want me. 11:16:33 It's like, somebody who interested in getting a tattoo. They pick the tattoo and then go. 11:16:39 This is what it means. Is that what you did with the all tattoos going? 11:16:43 No, not like that. Yeah. Cause yeah, it's like, when people come up with an acronym, cause it's a funny acronym. 11:16:50 And then they work the reverse engineer exactly. Well, it's a good name. 11:16:55 I like it. It rolls off the tongue, and it works works very well. 11:16:59 I think. And just before we dive into what it's all about, Corey and I are going to be at Sea Sun this year and season. 11:17:07 I think all of our participants will know about season. It's a big annual conference about assistive technology that's held in California. 11:17:14 This year. It's gonna be in Anaheim. 11:17:18 They used to be in San Diego. They moved. Yeah, it's been moved a few years ago, 5 years now, okay, yeah. And I haven't been since they were in Sunday. I have not been since San Diego as well. 11:17:28 So I'm quite excited about going. But yes, you guys are going to be there. 11:17:32 Freak correct, and what what booth are you gonna be in for? 11:17:34 People who are attending. 11:17:35 Yeah. So we're there again this year. 11:17:39 We were there last year for the first time this year. 11:17:41 I'm there on my own. I'm actually at a booth. I will be from the booth, from some of our distributors, so I'll be working in their book, showcasing. 11:17:47 Yeah, yeah. 11:17:45 Okay, got? You got? Yeah, okay? And do you know what the boost number is going to be off the top of your head or not? A problem. 11:17:50 I wouldn't know. No, no! 11:17:52 People people can find so I'm gonna say, Alright. 11:17:55 Find it best accent person. That's you here. I know you're fine. Yeah. 11:18:01 So if anybody is going to season, and they want to see this for themselves, and that will be a great place to do it all right. 11:18:08 So why don't you walk us through the table? One tell us a bit about the physical design, the concept, and then we can do some demonstrations. 11:18:15 Yeah, of course. So, well, I have tabled here in my hand, and it's around the same size as my phone. 11:18:22 So it's on iphone as you 2020. It's around the same size. 11:18:25 It's a little smaller. So it's a really small keyboard. What it looks like. 11:18:29 It is completely black, and it is 6 buttons in the white, and it's so. 11:18:35 It's around the same size as the phone. But you're not holding it the same way as phone. 11:18:38 So where a phone you would hold vertically aable one, you would turn 90 degrees, and then on one side you would have 8. 11:18:46 Okay. 11:18:45 Buttons. So 8 physical buttons are those buttons. They are turned away from you. 11:18:50 So it's a little bit like typing a brill on your iphone screen. 11:18:54 So a little bit like the Brill back typing but then, with physical buttons, then on the bottom, on the smaller side, Ifa USB. 11:19:07 Yup makes sense. 11:19:03 C Ching Port, and on the top I have on an off switch to the device and then there's a place where I can connect a wristband, so I doesn't fall out of my hands, and that's pretty much the device. 11:19:19 So how it looks. Yeah. 11:19:18 I have a quick question about about that, because we're in the pictures that I've seen. 11:19:27 Yes. 11:19:24 So the user is holding their smartphone landscape and then their fingers are resting on the braille keyboard, which makes perfect sense. 11:19:32 I was just wondering, does it connect to the back of the phone? 11:19:34 Somehow. Or how is that all working? 11:19:35 Yeah. So it doesn't right now. And the reason why it doesn't is because, well, first of all, you actually don't need to touch the phone at all, p she can control everything with just the able one. 11:19:44 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. 11:19:45 So both navigation and typing, and it becomes a little bit like to pick. So it's not reorganonomic when you put it on the back of your phone. 11:19:51 That makes sense. Yeah. 11:19:50 So as a stand alone. It's really nice. 11:19:52 You can use it for hours without it, hurting your fingers. 11:19:56 So that's why we didn't like it. Yeah. 11:19:56 Yeah, that makes perfect sense. So I do. So then I user would basically most likely have headphones in or whatever. 11:20:02 Yes. 11:20:02 And they would have the phone in their pocket, or whatever, and they'd just be controlling everything from the keyboard. There. 11:20:06 Exactly, so when you're in the train where you're outside, it doesn't really matter. 11:20:09 You can always use it. You don't need any desktop. Just hold the table on your your feedback for your phone. And that's how you use it to control your entire phone. Yeah. 11:20:18 Good. Okay? And there's there's kind of 2 main aspects of functionality. 11:20:21 So you have the control side of things whereby I know you guys have got a lot of shortcuts for carrying out various functions, and I'm hoping that you can show some of those. 11:20:31 And then we also have the text inputs side of things as well. 11:20:35 And I know definitely when it comes to text inputs on smartphones, it can be. 11:20:39 It can be challenging like, definitely, if you're trying to use the on screen keyboard. 11:20:42 That can be kind of slow going and difficult, although I will say, Corey Corey has got an uncanny way of locating the letters. 11:20:50 I really quickly. So I think with enough practice you can get good at it. 11:20:53 But it's not always ideal. And then also obviously built into some to most smartphones. 11:20:58 You're gonna have dictation side of things, and that is a great way to input text. 11:21:00 But also not always 100% accurate, and can be kind of frustrating. 11:21:07 Yeah. 11:21:06 So even feasible, some, yeah, yeah, yeah, depending on the environment you're in and stuff, and whether you have an Internet connection as well. 11:21:11 On your phone. So this is just this is really nice in terms of text input for giving, for giving braille users another way to input. 11:21:19 Text into their smartphone. 11:21:21 Yeah, so exactly. What you're saying is kind of has to use cases. 11:21:25 And we also see 2 types of people who really like they will. So on one side, it's typing. 11:21:31 And when you look at typing that kind of thing that's really for people that are that no Brill. 11:21:35 So they're real users. You just want to type fast on your phone in every situation when I have like, feel like you have control that then it's really a great solution for it. 11:21:43 The other group is actually a big group that's that's growing really fast for us right now, it's people who don't know any Brill. 11:21:49 So you don't know any real, but you have a little issues navigating the phone, just the swiping gestures lead to the problems. 11:21:55 Well, this is physical buttons, which makes it look easier to kind of. 11:21:58 Do those gestures. So that group will actually start for the reason of navigating their phone with the table. 11:22:03 And you can just dictate as typing. 11:22:05 Sure! 11:22:06 And slowly, be sure to actually that we will start to learn typing umbrella as well, almost without knowing it. Yeah. 11:22:11 I actually, I find that really fascinating and I'm really cool, you know, just that concept of kind of having an entryway for people to learn. 11:22:24 Yeah, yeah. 11:22:20 Braille, almost without, you know, meaning to do it in a way and I also, I mean, I think, back to I'm not a proficient braille, reader. 11:22:30 I have, like the daily living skill braille. So I'm enough that I'm going checking men's versus women's essentials. 11:22:36 Okay. 11:22:38 But really it, when I think back to my years learning Braille, learning the braille cells and stuff, was was easy writing braille on a braille writer was easy. 11:22:50 The real hard part of reading. Braille is a tactile piece of actually reading it with your fingers. 11:22:55 Yeah. 11:22:55 So I could see how people use a device like this would start to do Braille input and pick it up quite quickly, because really it all it is is just memorization I mean, is what it comes down to. 11:23:05 Yeah. 11:23:07 You don't have that tactile kind of concern in the beginning. 11:23:10 Yeah. 11:23:10 So. And so those people who are. Let's say that somebody who doesn't need braille, and they just started using the. And so those people who are, let's say that somebody who doesn't read braille and they just started using theable one. 11:23:30 Yeah, so, well, how we would teach someone that's new to you. 11:23:33 Say once, we don't have like a manual like regular productximum we have, we have a starting guide. 11:23:39 So we will really go like chapter per chapter and tell you, hey, you need these 5 functions, and you can already make a phone call or send a message with just these 5 phones. 11:23:45 Yeah. 11:23:50 Nice. 11:23:46 And then my kind of step by step, we would need to learn to use it, and for navigation, actually, you hardly need to. 11:23:55 You need to use some commands which can be translated back to Brill, but you don't even need to notice. 11:23:59 So, for example, what we always start with is this symbol a simple like single finger, swipe, so move forward or backwards on item. 11:24:07 And for that we, have those 2 like big navigation keys. 11:24:09 Yes. 11:24:10 So we have 6 real those. I mean to make navigation keys on a one, and those navigation keys are used to navigate. 11:24:16 So if I want to move an item for it, I would hold my left key. 11:24:20 I would just keep pressing it down and left, and and I press my right navigation key once and that's something I can repeat. 11:24:25 So every time I press it it will be a single finger slip forward, and if I wanna go backwards I mirror that. 11:24:32 So I hold my right Wiki and I press the back key once, and this is something. 11:24:36 When whenever you get a chance to have table in your own hands once it sounds a little weird when you do it once, it makes so much sense. 11:24:43 It's a super intuitive mood and comes back in all the navigation, all the kind of movements you want to do in your phone using enabled, yeah? 11:24:50 I was gonna ask you about that, because what was the what was the idea behind holding down the one button and tapping on the other rather than just taping on the direction you wanted to go in? 11:24:57 Yeah, so when we do that, we actually can put a little more functions into the same table. 11:25:09 Yeah, okay, yeah. 11:25:04 Because right now, if you if you press the left ignition once, it will be actually backspace, and the right ski is a space, and when we're holding it down and I press 7 in which would be a single figure slide. But what if I hold it down and I press 4 in text. 11:25:17 I actually move the character. So I can do that with multiple buttons. 11:25:20 And it's all in the same yeah mindset. So it's really. 11:25:22 That makes sense. So yeah, so you've always holding down something and doing something else. 11:25:26 Exactly. 11:25:26 So it's yeah. So it's keeping a consistency in in operation. 11:25:30 Yeah, that makes perfect sense. 11:25:29 Yeah, and it, yeah. And it's really so you have more functions. 11:25:33 It's consistent. It's quite intuitive to remember that way. Yeah. 11:25:40 Yeah. 11:25:36 Excellent, and we should say as well that this connects Via Bluetooth, and so, in terms of you know, if you get the device, then you'd need to charge it, connect it to your phone Via Bluetooth. 11:25:48 And I read on your website that the the battery life can go as long as a month. 11:25:52 Is that? Is that right? Oh, wow! 11:25:52 Yeah, yeah, it's even longer. So it's the number one support question we get from users is they call it, it doesn't work anymore. 11:26:01 And we tell them, have you charged it? And they say I wasn't aware you had to charge it, because it really like, if you use it every single day for around 2 h. 11:26:09 Then it lasts your month, so if you use it only 30 min a day, it can be months. 11:26:12 Yeah, last for longer. Yeah, yeah, that's that's really pretty handy. 11:26:14 Yeah, yeah. 11:26:17 How will to a full charge. Then, when you're charging it? 11:26:19 3. Hours. Max, yeah, yeah, yeah. 11:26:21 Oh, wow, okay, yeah, so that's that's definitely super handy. 11:26:26 Also I was wondering so obviously like people have other options. 11:26:30 If they wanna, you know input things into their phone in a different way. So you could connect to Bluetooth keyboard and or you could use, you know, a traditional braille display. 11:26:41 I'm guessing that the advantage of the table one is really the portability side of things is that. 11:26:45 Yeah, I think, I would say it's 2 things, cause I think every politician has their as their different views. 11:26:52 I think, indeed, one is support ability. You don't need a surface, you can really even use it while standing. And it's the full control. 11:26:59 And I think the second part where we're kind of unique is that we really focus on being simple tool learn like, easy to learn and being very intuitive. 11:27:04 Right. 11:27:06 But we're not necessarily the most efficient work. So, for example, I think with a brill display or it works, you can get to higher like you can type faster, or you can be more efficient. 11:27:16 If you really know all the functions, and we are more focus on, hey? 11:27:19 It should be easy to learn, like almost fun, to learn to use it. 11:27:23 So that's really where we try to position the product. 11:27:26 Yeah. And I'll be honest. I think that makes a lot of sense. 11:27:35 Okay. 11:27:29 I think the the market who use I mean, the market as a whole is very small, I think that makes a lot of sense. I think the market who use I mean the market as a whole is very small, but then the subset who's using an actual full refreshable braille 11:27:41 Yeah. 11:27:41 display is, I think, much smaller than the market. You're going after. 11:27:45 Who are the individuals who I'm not here to actually read Braille. 11:27:49 I'm really here to just find an alternative way to use my phone. 11:27:53 Exactly. Yeah. 11:28:00 Yeah, yeah. 11:27:54 You know, input-wise. So I think that totally, especially when you consider the braille displays cause thousands of people to use my phone. You know input-wise. So I think that's a good way to use my phone, you know input-wise, so I think that's what we're trying to do you know, that you're 11:28:15 Yeah. 11:28:15 not a big braille, reader? Yeah, awesome. Yeah. Okay. 11:28:17 Yes, correct. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah. 11:28:20 And if people wanna purchase, then they can. They can purchase directly from your website. 11:28:26 They have to go through distributors. Is that right? 11:28:26 Oh, you can't. Okay. Sorry. Okay. 11:28:26 You can. Actually, you can do both. Yeah. So if you would purchase regular website, it will still get sourced by one of our distributors. 11:28:33 That's most close to you, so you can do both whatever you prefer. 11:28:33 I got. Yeah, I know you, yeah, okay. And I believe that included with the price. 11:28:38 So there is 30, and I want to touch on this. Let's 30 min training. 11:28:44 It states 30 min training and then plus you have a bunch of video tutorials and stuff like that. 11:28:50 Yeah. 11:28:50 That 30 min training is that is that like a remote kinda training thing? Or how does that work? 11:28:51 Yeah, yeah, so that's remotely, if we have a whole support team here, that's that's help show out. 11:28:57 And it's 30 min, so it should be 30 min, but they always take longer. 11:29:01 So I'm trying to to tell them. Hey? 11:29:03 To 30 min, so I think you got easily get up to an hour if if you have the right person. 11:29:07 Awesome, sure. 11:29:07 Yeah, so you can stretch it. But if it needs, they still want ready to make sure it's all set up right. 11:29:13 You are able to get going. Everything's working. 11:29:15 We just want to make sure. That's initial. Experience is good. 11:29:19 And indeed, we have a lot of videos. We have training guides. 11:29:22 We try to really again, folks, on being simple and easy to use. 11:29:26 So that learning parts should be, yeah, should be really fun. And you should have all the kind of assets you need for that. 11:29:31 That's the. 11:29:30 Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I think, yeah, that's training. 11:29:34 That training side of things is really important. And it's really good that you, you know, provide that initial bit of setup because, you know, you can imagine somebody getting something like this through the from the mail, and then, not even knowing how to connect it to their phone. 11:29:45 Yeah, yeah. 11:29:45 You know. So it's really nice to have that. Do training like that as well. 11:29:51 And I think e-light do as well, but for the most part with this stuff, people kind of get it, and then have to use to. 11:30:02 I don't know that they do anymore. They used to have that whole setup process. 11:30:04 I don't think they do that on boarding anymore. 11:30:09 Yeah, but it's definitely a nice thing. Umhm. Alright! 11:30:10 Well, I think we should probably stop talking about this, and actually get an idea of how it works in actions. 11:30:17 So if you'd like to take a take it away. 11:30:23 Yeah, okay. 11:30:18 Yes, I will. Just connected here to my phone. And hopefully, it's the right table, because there's so many hidden. It's yeah. 11:30:31 It's Jenny's office. 11:30:31 I'm just imagining off camera. There's just a pile of table ones there. 11:30:35 They're actually right next to the air. Yeah, they're all in developing mode. 11:30:42 I got you. 11:30:41 So I have to make sure I picked the right the right one. Us. 11:30:46 Okay. 11:30:45 Oh, yeah, okay. So I have the wrong table here. But it doesn't matter, because actually, for the I'll just do an explanation of how it works and what's what for suggestion. I'm doing. 11:30:54 Okay, let's do it. 11:30:55 So I'll go into how we always start. So the basics I just already went through a little bit. 11:31:02 You connect the phone first with whatever only using. So if you're using IP phone or Android doesn't matter and you connect it with Bluetooth. 11:31:09 Once you're connected with Bluetooth, are able one, it will actually detect if you're using an iphone or android device. 11:31:14 And then, based on that, will switch to the right mode. So we have an android mode. 11:31:19 We have my phone mode. They're very similar, but it just works on the different phones and also works with Devin. 11:31:24 So I better. And that's also works. 11:31:28 Yep. 11:31:35 Yeah. 11:31:26 Excellent, just a question about Android. Quick, because, you know, with android devices they come in all sorts of different price points and performance specifications, and such is there is there certain specifications other than just because I think you needed android 9 or something like that right but other than that is there any 11:31:43 particular specifications for the device. 11:31:46 Yeah, so it's on our way. I I wouldn't know from my head. 11:31:50 Okay, that awesome. There. 11:31:54 I got you. 11:31:51 But on our website, you have a document that says like, on which phone groups like generally, I would say more than 90% of the functions work on all the phones. 11:31:59 Nice. 11:32:02 Yeah, sure. 11:32:00 But just different per phone. There might be a few tweaks yeah, so you can find on our website. 11:32:06 Okay. 11:32:09 Yes. 11:32:07 So I always recommend to do that when you're especially when you're ingrid user, you connect once. 11:32:12 The next thing you do is make sure you're either voice over or talk like aternal, and that's it. 11:32:17 You can get started. You don't need an app. 11:32:21 To use the one and just works right away. The phone things recognize it as a normal keyboard. 11:32:26 So know that's a build space. That's a keyboard. 11:32:40 Awesome. 11:32:27 And that allows us to be a little bit faster so there's no delay to using it and hearing your voice over, talk back, and we can do some my sequences so we can send really Google commands that other keywords sometimes to them basic navigation. 11:32:43 So I have my table on my hands. My fingers are resting on the 6 buttons that are just real buttons, and then, if I move my left pointing finger to the left, it's button 7 or the left navigation key, and if I my right pointing finger to the right 11:33:00 it's split an 8 on my right navigation key, and so I'll use those for navigation. 11:33:03 When I'm on the whole screen I hold button 7, and I tap it an eighth to go to an next step and the other way around to move backwards. 11:33:12 If I want to enter an app, or the once in your double tab, I press both navigation key at the same time, so when you press them at the same time, you open an app where you select an item. 11:33:21 So that's your double command. Then on a, you know, yeah, on a, if if you're using the touch screen, yeah, yeah. 11:33:25 Exactly. Yeah, exactly. If I wanna go move to the my cursor to the top of the screen. 11:33:31 It's holding 1, 2, and 3 at the same time. 11:33:33 And through the end of the screen with those games holding 4, 5, and 6 actually guys similar to a real display where you would do this if I wanna move to a next page, there is a little bit like an arrow. 11:33:49 That makes sense. 11:33:46 So I hold 1, 3, and 5. It looks like an arrow on my on my able one to go base next, and a base previous is again the opposite of 2, 4, and state to hold them down, and every time I do a function where I have to hold something down, you will fill with vibration, so that's 11:34:01 vibration is an extra full information that it works. That's there, with all shortcuts. 11:34:06 So for my home screen, my notifications, my jump to ender back in the screen. Just a little extra. Yeah. 11:34:12 Feeling this, you know, if you did it right, and that's the basics of navigation and movements. 11:34:20 Then we have 3 shortcuts that we just used to load, so we should put them on prime positions. 11:34:27 So one of them is to play and pause, voice over. 11:34:30 So sometimes, for user, just keep speaking to you. It keeps talking. 11:34:33 So if you hold button wrong, it stops so it pops, and if you want to talk again, you hold it on again. 11:34:37 Excellent! 11:34:39 The second is dictation. So if you vote button 2, you can start dictating, you will to again. 11:34:45 It stops. And it's really because we have a lot of people who don't know any Brill, so they'll start with the dictation put on button 2 is easy and 3. But then 3 holding it down is the Magic Tab, just to pick up a phone call hang it 11:34:56 have a phone call, playing balls, music playing, false videos. 11:35:00 Yeah, really, something. You use. 11:35:01 And these are the same commands, whether you're working on Android or Iphone. 11:35:05 So this is all on iphone, on Android. 11:35:07 I see. Okay, I got you. 11:35:09 It's a little difference. I actually don't know from folks on behalf like the ones you really use a lot of land right? 11:35:13 So we try to put like the prominent ones on these instructions. Yeah. 11:35:12 Yeah, yeah, and then I sing, I like about this already is that you know, if you were doing this with the touch screen we're already talking here about things which require multi-finger gestures. 11:35:26 Yes. 11:35:26 And you know, rather than having to worry about that. And we know Corey, a lot of our clients can struggle with those here. 11:35:32 You've got a much more simple, simplified, and tactile. 11:35:35 That's a multi finger and multi-tap. 11:35:40 Yeah. 11:35:37 That's a ready being single physical. But yeah, and I think you know, definitely like, I can see how this would be beneficial. 11:35:45 For even even for those clients who don't read Grail. 11:35:56 Hmm! 11:36:00 Yeah. 11:35:48 But just need an easier way to interact with the phone. Yeah, I mean, I work with a number of clients who come in with with full query Bluetooth keyboards, but only mostly cause they just want to navigate and type exactly. 11:36:02 I mean, I can see this already being a better solution. Yeah, cool. I like it. 11:36:04 Yes, and just yeah, I'm only going to do what we say. 11:36:10 Sure! 11:36:10 Consider the basic. So what I'm going over is what we do in our first 2 chapters of the of the start, or first feed, such as the Starting Guide, because there's a little more like on any other keyboard. 11:36:18 But I think that's something more advanced. If you wanna really look it up, check the manual. 11:36:22 So this is really as far as I'll normally go with navigation so how to navigate or the phone with these different functions, and then there's, of course, the part of typing. 11:36:32 So typing stor options. Dictation. So that's with button to. And the other one is typing in in Brill, typing in Brill is. 11:36:42 It's 6 little brill. So it's not 8 on that's on a most builder space. 11:36:46 It's a set with 6. What that means is that I can well put the ones to a button. 11:36:51 1, 2 is the b, one, forces c, etc., that works normally and but if I want to do something like a number, I first press the number sign, and now my A becomes a one. 11:37:02 My b becomes a 2 etc. So I just do single brill, and that way it works. 11:37:09 Okay. 11:37:07 And I can switch between grade one and grade 2 Uab and my backspace is 7 or my left memory navigation and my space is 8 right navigation key, and it's really there. 11:37:17 Yeah, basics of typing. Yeah. 11:37:16 Excellent, and just to clarify this does require the use of voice over, or talk back both from the navigation piece and especially the input piece. 11:37:28 Because you need those screen readers to be doing the translation and stuff as well right. 11:37:34 I just to verify? 11:37:36 So navigation. Yes. But you can type it. This without having voice over turned on because the phone thing, yeah recognizes a normal keyboard. So it's as if you're typing within normal keyboard on the phone. Yeah. 11:37:46 So oh, interesting! So voiceover isn't doing the Braille Trend. 11:37:50 It's not transating. Oh, interesting. Okay. 11:37:50 No, yeah. It's inside. The. It's inside theable one. 11:37:56 Okay. 11:37:56 We do the translations. So we also have a different language inside the able one. 11:37:59 And that's allows you to know. Go to technical. 11:38:03 But it allows us to sequence certain things. We send to the phone so we can do all the different interactions. 11:38:10 If, for example, what we could do is we hold one button, and we would say, Well, that means that you first go to the home screen. 11:38:16 Go for apps forwards, and then enter that app as an example. 11:38:20 Sure! 11:38:20 So you can actually, yeah, sequence multiple things by being in control of it. 11:38:24 Are these things are these, would that be like user programmable, either now or at any point? 11:38:31 Okay. 11:38:29 So moved right now. But we we are testing internally what we what we can do. 11:38:37 I can't really say anything right now if it will be there, because we're still doing a lot of testing. 11:38:38 Okay. 11:38:41 But who knows? 11:38:42 That would be a super awesome. You could just program a single button to do a load of stuff yeah, I mean, honestly, the immediate thing I think about is a lot of times people struggle with the automated voice menus. 11:38:57 And if let's say you called your doctor all the time, if you program one button to dial, the number, pause and then hit one all the time for you I mean, you know, there is a lot of really cool, use cases. 11:39:07 But there's probably a big layer of complexity around that, too. 11:39:12 Hey! 11:39:12 Especially when you only have 8 buttons, and they're using so many already. 11:39:18 So how do you start to make sure people aren't, you know? 11:39:24 Reprogramming, yeah, the right key. And then, like, it doesn't move forward anymore. 11:39:25 Yeah, yeah, this is like, yeah. 11:39:29 Couple of questions for you. So number one, is there a shortcut to activate Syria? 11:39:36 Awesome. 11:39:34 Yes, yes, if you hold down the 1, 4 and 5. 11:39:39 So the. 11:39:40 My question was the road, or I gotta assume there's one for the rotor gesture. That's always one. Yeah, that's a big one that can be a struggle. 11:39:45 Yes, yeah. And actually, so, the roads are what we did. 11:39:51 This is, we say we used to load a text that I think at least a lot of people use a lot of the roads or in texting, and that's actually one of the I would say, I it's one of the feature I like the most because we did something a little unique with text 11:40:02 editing so there's a lot of different commands like going for words, going for characters. 11:40:07 Selecting all these different percentence subsets. Someone is not going to remember all of this. 11:40:12 If you put it on so, what if we make it a little easier? 11:40:16 We just say all you have to remove. It's your left navigation key. 11:40:19 This text editing, and the opposites real weapons. So 4, 5, and 6. 11:40:23 Those are the buttons you're touching, it's actually nothing else. 11:40:27 And so what we do, same as going to a next item. 11:40:31 If I hold my left navigation in a press 4. 11:40:33 I go to a next character. I wanna go backwards I hold 4, and I press 7. 11:40:39 The opposite. Yeah. 11:40:38 So the marrying the action. Yeah. Words is 7 and 5. 11:40:55 Sure! 11:40:42 Selecting character is 7 and 4 and 5 for 4 and 5 and 7, and selecting a word, is 7 a 4, and 6, and the rotor is then on 7 and 5 and 6, because you can use it for sentences like selecting a sentence, or we send the sentence so that's all those same buttons. And it's yeah once 11:41:01 you once. It's really easy to remember. 11:41:03 So it seems like there's been a lot of logic that's gone into figuring it out the easiest way for people to learn and remember these things. 11:41:09 Yeah, yeah. And I have to say these things whenever I I feel this, people are like, Yeah, you say, so. It's mostly. 11:41:17 But it sounds like a little different things, very complex, and I agree when I say it's very complex, I would always say, to try it out, it's really when you try it. 11:41:21 But when you actually do it, yeah, yeah. 11:41:25 It's kind of flicks and makes a lot of sense. So. 11:41:26 It really is a perfect example of even even sitting down and just talking out voiceover gestures. 11:41:33 Yeah, sounds, way more complex than when you actually do the gesture. 11:41:35 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. 11:41:37 And yeah, so that makes sense awesome. Well, that is all super cool. 11:41:43 Oh, the other thing I was gonna ask you is, let's say that I'm writing text message, for example, is there a shortcut for adding a Smiley Emoji, this is just a smile. 11:41:54 No other emoji, or just a smile. 11:41:51 Yes, yes, you can. You can okay, so there's mobile short circle directly. 11:42:01 Send a Smiley, but I'm sure we can make that for you. 11:42:01 So! 11:42:07 But you can switch to this keyboard with with a single combination. Yeah. 11:42:11 Yeah. 11:42:08 Excellent. Yeah, that's really very cool. I can definitely see a lot of potential utility for a device like this. 11:42:17 And I do. I just I just keep coming back to this idea, because, like, we see a number of clients who who don't, you know, read or write. 11:42:27 Braille, but could benefit from an easier way to interact with a smartphone. 11:42:30 And so I just keep coming back to this idea of how this could help with that. 11:42:43 Yeah. 11:42:34 Yeah, I almost think in in some cases, when you introduce this to someone you don't introduced it as a bridge yeah, because I think for some individuals they're immediately going to shut down and be like, I don't know Bra it's more that this, is not a braille. 11:42:52 Input device. This is a, this is an, this is a, this is a, this is a key in your keyboard for your iphone. 11:43:04 Yeah. 11:42:58 And then, next thing you know, you're like, Oh, if you want to type A, B, it's you hit buttons one and 2, and then I guess what that's you just learn B+B exactly. 11:43:08 Yeah, actually, actually, this is exactly what we do here. In announcements, schools. 11:43:24 Nice. That was clever. 11:43:14 So in all the schools, and where children, with the visual impairments are getting their education, they have tables, and they will tell them, hey, this is just a cool game controller for your phone that's how they the teachers tell them they get started they take it home. 11:43:28 They're doing doing the many of it like, yeah. Now, I'm finally able to give them my phone. 11:43:31 Yeah, yeah. 11:43:33 And then, a few weeks later, I'm hey, by the way, you just learned to use Brill on your that's really the exact thing they're using. 11:43:39 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 11:43:43 Yup! 11:43:36 Hmm! Hmm! Oh, you that's actually really good, you know, cause this whole concept of gamifying things to help people learn like, if it is basically tricking them into learning something. 11:43:47 But I mean, if it does the job, then why not? Yep, yeah, maybe. 11:43:48 Yeah, yeah, it's all. So of course, it's not yet. 11:43:52 You know, able to read brilliant! 11:43:55 You just typing it. But it's a great way you can have to get them into. 11:43:56 Yeah, but it's a style, though. Exactly. Yeah, very cool. 11:43:59 Yeah, into, excited about it. Yeah. 11:44:01 So when did you guys officially release? Then when did all that happen? 11:44:05 Yes. So we started in September 2021. 11:44:10 That's when we launched. But that was just in the Netherlands, and I think we started in the Us. 11:44:20 Cool. 11:44:16 In July last year, but we've really been going quite slow, like State for States, and slowly rolling out. 11:44:23 And we're still in the midst of that. To be honest. Yeah. 11:44:24 Yeah, yeah, does that mean that you've originally released, like in the midst of Covid, because it wasn't I can't even remember that all started. 11:44:33 But that was that 2020? Yeah, right? 11:44:31 Oh, yes, big time. Oh, we we incorporate the company in the midst of Covid and everyone says, What are you doing? 11:44:37 Oh, my, gosh, yeah, that's amazing. 11:44:40 What are you doing? Yeah, yeah. It was it changed. But also, I don't know. Come up with creative things because we couldn't really visit people. 11:44:47 And this really what you want to try. And your like, you want to try before you're ready. 11:44:50 Yeah, for sure. 11:44:52 So we yeah, we came up with a separate fid suit to still try it without having to by it right away. 11:44:58 That's really cool. And yeah, I was, you know, all you were hearing about at the time was all the supply chain issues, and people weren't able to get the components for their you know, their products and stuff like that. 11:45:08 Okay. 11:45:08 So how was it to navigate all of all of that stuff? 11:45:10 Yeah. And let's say, those are very challenging. I think we so the regions of Iinto are from the Netherlands is the reason we actually have a few really big companies like Phillips. 11:45:20 Oh, really. Okay. 11:45:19 And Asl, and we are lucky to know some people there that are able to help us source some of the products. 11:45:27 So we're really, have to do the creative about. 11:45:27 Awesome. 11:45:31 And luckily, now that time is kind of over, we just we have some stable supply chain, and everything is fine. There. 11:45:39 Yeah, yeah. 11:45:36 Yeah, things do seem to be getting better thankfully. So what's the other weight of the table? 11:45:41 And I'm not sure if if we mentioned that. 11:45:41 It's like 90 grams. It's really light. 11:45:45 Yeah, yeah. 11:45:44 Okay, easily. Easily holdable in one hand and easy, easy to carry around in a pockets, and so on and so forth. 11:45:48 Yes, yeah, yeah, that's pretty obvious. Yeah. 11:45:53 Yeah, yeah, now, you guys do have obviously the website that we talked about. 11:45:56 So you can go onto the website and from there you are able to access some information, including information about the device itself. 11:46:06 Also some products support a demonstration type of videos and also you can purchase from there. 11:46:14 And you also have a Youtube channel which I will just bring up here. 11:46:17 We're only seeing a little a little bit of it, because the way that this is this is the setup. 11:46:22 But you have a table, one Youtube channel. And so is there a direct URL to that Youtube com forward slash table one. 11:46:31 Or what's the best way for people to get there. 11:46:33 Okay. 11:46:32 I would just search table on Youtube, table, one on Youtube, and you'll find it. 11:46:36 And it's actually quite a nice thing to follow, because there's a lot of videos coming up that just explain like specific things. 11:46:49 Excellent. Yeah. Yeah. So that that's really good. 11:46:42 For example, how to send a a Whatsapp message with a able and how to send an email, how to read the news kind of really focused on that. And it was just a good idea of how you'd use it. 11:46:54 That's like task driven kind of videos. Yeah. And that makes perfect sense. 11:46:57 Exactly. 11:46:59 That's a great way to do it. So if you have a able one, or if you're thinking about getting a table one, I think it would be definitely worth taking a visit to the Youtube Channel, because from there you'll be able to check out some videos on how things are done, and then if you have one 11:47:11 obviously you can try those out. And if you're thinking about getting one, then you can get an idea of whether you think that would be feasible for you. 11:47:24 Yeah. 11:47:18 And I did also see on your website there is a list of kind of the the different shortcuts for Android for apple as well that people can check out. 11:47:29 I think we're gonna I'd like to pick one up. 11:47:29 Yeah. 11:47:31 I think for for tech here, look, I think we'll probably do a produce video on it that first folks. 11:47:37 Crazy. 11:47:39 This means that everybody everybody out there on the on the interwebs is gonna be able to find out just how good Coy's braille is. 11:47:47 Oh, so I think a lot of people have suggestions for what call we shouldn't be typing with theable one. 11:47:56 And please send them in the better. Yeah, they' go. Yeah, I forget you don't. 11:47:59 Okay. 11:48:01 You don't do. Great! I'm not. I'm not very good with contracted brand. 11:48:06 Yeah, so, okay, I can read it decently, cause I can figure out what it is. 11:48:10 But you know, but writing it not so much. Alright. I'm very much looking forward to creating this video. 11:48:15 Perfect time to get started. Yeah. 11:48:15 Be a good time. Yeah, I got practicing correct. 11:48:20 Ly so frank. I'm curious, and you potentially can't. 11:48:23 Really you may not be able to say much of anything, but I'm just curious. 11:48:29 Hmm! 11:48:27 The future of of able and Habel won. What 5 years from now, 10 years from now, do you have any big plans that you'd like to see the product evolve into, or things you'd love to see the product evolve into or things you'd love to add in the future? 11:48:42 Yeah, yeah, so, what we were speaking about really, briefly, before going live. 11:48:46 But I I did just post on Linkedin that's at Cen. 11:48:51 I will be telling people about our new flex that's coming up. 11:48:53 I can't say anything about it right now, but in person I'm happy to tell you a little bit more so if you're attending season, please do do visits, meet plug-s. 11:49:02 The guy with a big section, and our goal is really to make a a product range. 11:49:07 So right now. The hit one itself. We already know a little ways soon make it even better, and improve even more. 11:49:14 But we also want to make sure we're not forgetting anyone. 11:49:15 So you want to make sure we have different products for different categories. 11:49:20 And in the ends. Our goals really to make all the technology accessible. 11:49:24 So whatever, whoever wants to use it want to make sure it's accessible for them, and part of that is really products. 11:49:30 Of different products that would work. But it's also a little bit on the training side, making sure that you yeah, it's easy and fun to learn to use. 11:49:38 I think, yeah. 11:49:37 Very cool. I wonder if something just popped in my head. 11:49:41 Luke, and I'm just going to throw it out, because I'm curious what you think. 11:49:44 How do you think a similar product for a windows-based computer with a screen? 11:49:52 Reader would work for those who may be struggle with a full quarter keyboard. 11:49:59 I just feel like the navigational aspects of using a computer are more complex with a phone. 11:50:06 So I don't know how it would work, but I love to see it happen. 11:50:12 I don't know how it would work, but I'd love to see it happen yeah, I almost think paired with the like. 11:50:15 Hmm! 11:50:20 Yeah. 11:50:17 Dolphin, guide, would that be? Because then you have guide doing this simple interface, and then a product like like theable one where you it's much easier than to have that limited navigation here first folks able to we're going to have a Google, guide there you go we've created it and this 11:50:34 is happening you're welcome, Frank. Well, I'll go. 11:50:38 Yeah, thanks, so much. Taking notes, sticking notes. 11:50:42 It's. 11:50:41 There you go! Well, I'm looking forward to dropping by the booth, and yes, finding out about whatever the next new exciting thing is, gonna be at at season here, and for anybody who is interested in finding out more. 11:50:56 I think we've already covered all of the bases here, so we have the websites, which is, I am able. 11:51:02 Comm, go to Youtube, and you can search for Table one and find out more that you can, of course, always call us at (404) 615-0103. 11:51:13 And also if people wanted to get in touch, dyed with you, Frank, would that be possible? 11:51:16 Hmm! 11:51:17 And if so, what's the best way to do it? 11:51:25 Okay. 11:51:19 Yeah, so it's via our email itself website, which is supports@iamable.com and actually, one thing I would like to add is because, of course, I'm telling you it's a great product. It's amazing. 11:51:32 Really try it. But yeah, don't take my word for that from the company. 11:51:35 Yeah. 11:51:36 So what I would advise is, we have open email groups with users, hundreds of user on there who give very honest opinions. 11:51:44 So if we're running, hey, it's this something for me, or you have other questions about, like, How do people use it? 11:51:50 Or maybe you can even ask like, why some people don't like it. 11:51:52 I would just join our our forums. And that's on our website. 11:51:56 You can find us. It's just open to join. You can ask anything there. 11:52:00 We're not intervening. All we do share. 11:52:03 There's like our software updates that are out. But that's a really good way to really get honest feedback from all other people are using it. 11:52:10 And yeah, ask your questions there? As well, yeah. 11:52:11 Okay, that's great. I really appreciate the the openness of that. 11:52:16 So yeah, that's a that's a sign of it. If you ask me. 11:52:16 Okay. 11:52:18 That's a sign of a good, a good product, a good company, if they're confident enough to to be so, you know. 11:52:25 Yeah. 11:52:24 Let their users talk exactly one quick thing here I'm just about to wrap it up. 11:52:31 But I suddenly thought, there is a smartphone app for this as well. 11:52:36 Yeah, it's only out there for oh, this is like 4 weeks now. 11:52:41 Yeah, we just launched it. Yeah. 11:52:40 Oh, wow! All right, cool! What can people do with the smartphone up? Then? 11:52:45 Yes, I this moment. It's there just to do so. 11:52:48 Friday, so if you get aable one, you get live on free software at this as well, we do software. 11:52:52 Nice. 11:52:53 It's around once every 4 months, and it's not just making it more efficient. 11:52:59 Okay. 11:52:57 But also we add feature. So we last time we edit the breast and holds so you can send voice messages, and we'll set, for example, and we'll have something to do that fast booted switching things like this coming up now initially. 11:53:10 You had to plug it into your computer, run a program. 11:53:20 Yeah, sure. 11:53:13 And with a bit of software. But we really use the one only with phones that service as well would make more sense. If you can just update it that directly from your phone or tablets. So that's what the app does right now, you can just do so far updates directly over over bluetooth right now it's just Ios we're working on 11:53:30 Okay. 11:53:29 the Android version, as well, and in the future we'll also put things like support material there, extra videos, onboarding guides. 11:53:38 It's really of everything in one place. So for users. 11:53:40 Yeah. 11:53:38 Awesome, so big plans for the for the app. So yeah, if people are, if people have a table, then definitely go ahead and get the app as well. 11:53:45 Here's my suggestion for a feature. What should we call this? 11:53:50 We'll call it. Where's my table? And it will basically cause I know you've got haptics in theable one. 11:53:57 I know you have speakers, but maybe you could have a feature where we're all vibrate so you can hopefully locate it if you've lost it. 11:54:02 That's a really good suggestion. Yeah, it's a really good suggestion. 11:54:02 Oh, through the app, maybe. Yeah. Okay, I like it. 11:54:05 And let's say it might have been pulled up before, and maybe it's already in the background, being produced. 11:54:11 Maybe we can't make any promises, but maybe they are predicting the future. 11:54:11 Who knows what's ? 11:54:18 Okay, you you're gonna be the tenth and you're gonna be the tenth employee, although if you just keep giving the idea. That's my problem. Alright. Well, Frank, thank you so much for coming on here, we really appreciate it. 11:54:33 I know it's a little later over there than it is here. 11:54:34 So sorry to keep you into the evening. But thank you so much. It's been really really helpful. 11:54:37 Yeah, thank you. Thank you so much for having. It was a little fun. 11:54:40 Thanks. Yeah. 11:54:39 Yeah. Good. Yeah. For us to. And hopefully, all of our all of our viewers enjoy this and we have put the contact information out there. 11:54:47 If anybody does have questions, we are going to be live streaming from season. So you may see Frank again. 11:54:53 There when we do our live stream. We haven't exactly figured out what our formats going to be for that yet. 11:55:04 To figure out that. But anyway, anyway, that will be in that will be in 2 weeks in 2 weeks time. Yeah. 11:55:08 Yeah. 11:55:07 So this show in 2 weeks time. Yeah, so this this show. In 2 weeks time you will be seeing this live show direct. Oh, you know what I didn't even think of this to. 11:55:15 We'll have to think about if we'll. I guess we'll do if we keep 11 A. M. 11:55:20 Central cause, then that is only 9 am. Central, because then that is only 9 am. 11:55:32 Going going on on the floor. So we may even find we will send out an email to let everybody know what's happening with that. 11:55:34 And we're hoping to, you know, have maybe have some life on the show floor stuff. Maybe have some interviews with people. 11:55:38 Yeah, yeah. And once we get back from Csun, we're going to be sending out an email, not the format of tech connect, live is going to change. 11:55:48 But how you access. It might change, we are. We've gone going to be launching a new website so you are going. You can actually go and check out the schedule and past archive sessions and everything from that website and so we're going to do a session on how to do us today. 11:56:06 Exactly, but just know that that'll be coming up. 11:56:09 We may ask you to to resubscribe and re kind of create a register. 11:56:15 We apologize, but it's just something we kind of have to do. 11:56:18 But just quick heads up. That'll be coming up in the next month or so. Yes, it will. 11:56:27 And one last thing here, Frank, I just suddenly thought you did a video. All the you had, Sam, from the blind life to a video for you recently. 11:56:29 Yeah, yeah. Few weeks back, he was the video, yeah, yeah. 11:56:32 Excellent, yes, I I haven't had chance to check that out yet, but I'm sure it's very good, as these videos usually are, so that will be another way that people could get an idea if they wanted more more. 11:56:42 I think we've probably quite a lot here, but if you wanted to see even more able one, and you can always go to the blind life on Youtube, and you never. 11:56:49 It's an idios never enough that one. That's what I find. 11:56:50 Never enough! 11:56:53 Yeah, I live, deliver, breathe it all right. 11:56:58 I'm talking of you 2. We have a Youtube channel. 11:56:59 You can find it by going to youtube.com. But forward, slash! Vision forward! 11:57:03 Tech connect yeah, sort of a mouthful, but you could all the way search for tech connector as well. 11:57:09 And of course we have all of these live shows that will be up there. 11:57:14 But we also have produc videos, including our latest one on Chat Gpt. Did it cause some trouble? 11:57:20 It sure did. Yeah, if you want to see an AI taking over the vision for tech, connect studio. 11:57:25 Well, that's the video that you have. Next week it'll be the indoor navigation features of seeing Amy. 11:57:32 Yeah, which I'm quite excited about. It's it's a it's a it's an ambitious product that's a it's a. It's an ambitious product. 11:57:43 We have that. It's it's it's it's it's it's it's the literally the first 5. If you wanna see a dream sequence, then tune into the video that will be releasing actually on Saturday of this week. We decided to release on a different day just to see how that went so 11:57:56 Saturday. I'm sorry. Saturday of next week. My apologies. Jonathan got scared because he he's the one who has to edit the video and put it together. 11:58:00 Yeah, how did we not tell you? It actually needs to be in 2 days, anyway. Keep tuning to the Youtube channel. 11:58:05 Thanks again for it. It's been a pleasure, and we will see everybody in 2 weeks. 11:58:10 Life and season bye, for now! 11:58:22 Thanks for joining us for another tech connect, live. If you enjoyed Corey and Luke's antics, be sure to join us next time, for all things tech connect, go to vision dashboard with org slash tech, connect. Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Episode Notes Follow along with Cory as he uses the windows screen reader in order to navigate the web and preform Luke's tasks. Throughout the process, he points out specific keys and techniques you can use to make yourself more efficient.0:00 Intro and Jokes 0:10 Cory prefaces the tasks 0:13 Basic browser and info search 0:25 Opening Gmail, basic layout tips 0:31 Searching email by terms, Reading line-by-line 0:36 Composing a new Email 0:41 Shopping Online, Adding to Cart 0:55 Checkout and Pay 0:59 Wrap Up Find out more at https://techconnectlive.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
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