Podcast appearances and mentions of stuart lawler

This week we're delighted to have Stuart Lawler and Mohammed Laachir back with us. Mohamed has recently written an article for his LinkedIn page entitled "When the lights go out, an account of vision loss". It's a wonderfully insightful read and we highly recommend all our listeners check it out, whether they have a vision impairment or not. Check it out here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-lights-go-out-account-vision-loss-mohammed-laachir-uqzue   Stuart was at an accessibility for the arts event which was recently held in the Project Arts Centre here in Dublin, and he tells us all about the event. the conversation also brings up the topic of touch tours in the arts. Are you a fan? Let us know at: blindguyschat@gmail.com   Clodagh has emails from Blind Gordon, Clare Page and Claire McLoughlin.   Don't forget, there is a Glide demo day at the Wayfinding Centre this coming Saturday, June 7. See details here: https://glidance.io/glidance-demo-day-dublin/.   So, forget about the rain, buy yourself an ice cream, and perch your butt on a park bench to listen to the number one podcast this side of a replacement guide dog: Blind Guys Chat - 7 out of 10 republicans prefer it to Trump!   Links for this programme: ·       Mohammed Laachir - "When the lights go out, an account of vision loss”: www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-lights-go-out-account-vision-loss-mohammed-laachir-uqzue ·       Glidance demo day: https://glidance.io/glidance-demo-day-dublin/. ·       And email us at blindguyschat@gmail.com, Clodagh's dying to hear from you all! Support Blind Guys Chat by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blind-guys-chatRead transcript

Read transcriptJan is on hiatus this week, so it's a welcome return to Mr Stuart Lawler, a man who puts the “Hot” into Tango. It's 30 years since Stuart was on the Irish Eurovision Song Contest jury and boy are we happy they never asked him back. Secret Garden were the winners for Norway that year with a song that can only be described as: mostly violin! But what happened this year in Basel, Switzerland? Did Celine Dion turn up singing a medley of her hit? Did the Swedish businessmen get hot and sweaty in the sauna? Is Lithuania's guitar player just a U2 wanna-be? And did the UK get any votes at all? Let's find out as we join Kevin Sherwin live from his jacuzzi (he really just farts in the bath)! To find out how the Eurovision final went last Saturday, May 17th. Óran and Stuart are standing on their respective soapboxes as Sky TV don't seem to be doing a whole lot when it comes to providing AD services on Sky Stream or on their ‘On Demand' service. Is it time to throw Dave Nason under the bus (again) on this one!? (We love you Dave – a voice note would be very welcome - Clo) In TV corner, have you seen ‘Mad Men' with AD on Netflix? or Cassandra? or how about the new season of Black Mirror? Give us your views on the quality of the AD on these programmes, or on whatever you're watching, by emailing blindguyschat@gmail.com. At long last the Meta AI ‘look and describe' feature has come to Ireland! Woohoo!! Óran can't stop asking the glasses to describe his guide dog Larry. Apparently, he defecates on the grass. Larry that is, not Óran! Have you tried the look and tell feature? Let us know what you think: blindguyschat@gmail.com Stuart is heading off to Sight City in Frankfurt; are you going? Stuart talks to us about booking a sighted guide at the event, and the new remote assistance option for those attending. Finally, we have news on the Glide from Glidence. There will be a demo day at the Wayfinding Centre in Dublin on June 7, early booking is recommended, before Larry and his friends break it! So, strip off your sweat-drenched sauna suit; stop straddling that microphone - you could do yourself an injury; pour yourself a macchiato and settle in for a podcast full of enjoyment, with no jokes, sarcasm or any kind of wit at all! Yeah right!!!

On this episode of Talking Technology, we are joined by Stuart Lawler who tells us all about the Paige Braille. We discuss the latest accessibility features announced by Apple including accessibility reader and braille access, and in tech news we explore a new solution for training Deaf dogs. No, that's not a typo. We pay a visit to a school in Gorey to chat Braille with some SNAs, and is smart speaker gaming dead?Send us a WhatsApp voice note with your thoughts now. The number you need is 086 199 0011. Support the show

Hello, our favourite animated friends, and welcome to the show. This week, Óran and Clodagh are just back from Dingle, County Kerry, where they and Larry attended the Animation Dingle Festival. Óran was thrilled because he got to touch the actual models used for the latest Wallace and Gromit movie 'Vengeance Most Fowl'. The film was made in stop-motion animation, which means amongst other things that it took a super-long time to produce. It's a welcome return for Stuart Lawler to the podcast. Stuart flew his private jet over to Anaheim in California to attend CSUN Assistive Tech Conference. What new toys are out there for the VI community? What is accessibility like at the event? Did Stuart fight any fires? How much does a beer cost? And where the hell is Anaheim? All these questions and not a lot more will be answered by the tech guru. Meta have announced AI is coming to Europe, but does that include the 'Look and describe' feature on the Meta Ray Ban glasses? So, stop drawing cartoons; put down your colouring pencils; and settle in for the number one best animated podcast in the land: Blind Guys Chat! 7 out of 10 pencils prefer it to being sharpened! Links for this show: Good Maps: https://goodmaps.com/ Glide: https://glidance.io/#:~:text=Glide%20is%20a%20pioneering%20AI-powered%20mobility%20aid%20designed,path%2C%20and%20helps%20you%20get%20to%20your%20destination New haptics: https://www.newhaptics.com/post/building-a-multiline-braille-display Support Blind Guys Chat by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blind-guys-chatRead transcript

The annual CSUN conference in California brings together some of the biggest names in accessible technology from across the globe. Dave Williams from RNIB Tech Talk has been on the conference floor this year to speak to some of the delegates.  Dave talked to Stuart Lawler from Sight and Sound about new braille technologies on show this year. Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On a white background ‘RNIB' written in bold black capital letters and underline with a bold pink line. Underneath the line: ‘Connect Radio' is written in black in a smaller font. 

In this episode of Double Tap, Steven and Shaun discuss the availability of new gadgets from Sight & Sound Technology, Steven's transition to Windows, and the importance of learning different modes and shortcuts. Listener emails open up a range of discussions on various topics related to accessible technology including fitness trackers, blood pressure monitors, the Mini Guide device, and the value of companionship provided by guide dogs. There's also an in depth chat with Stuart Lawler and Graeme Marden from Sight and Sound Technology in the UK. They join Steven to discuss the new Braille eMotion braille display from HIMS, the new Orbit Slate multi-line braille display and the new WeWalk Smart Cane 2 launching in October. They also discuss ongoing deals with the JAWS screen reader for users in the UK who don't have access to the Home User license available in other countries.Keep in touch by emailing us feedback@doubletaponair.com or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media.

Hello our favourite A.I. bots! We hope you are well, and are looking forward to another fantastic episode of Blind Guys Chat. We begin this week's show with a health warning, or should that be a sandwich warning!?! Yes, it seems that Sjef was a bit of a bold doggy during the week, as he managed to get his mouth around a sandwich belonging to one of Jan's colleagues. However, it looks like Sjef won't be imprisoned any time soon as there was no evidence of a crime having been committed. Yes, Sjef is keeping his mouth shut on this mystery. Clever boy! Not even Sherlock Holmes could solve this one! Our guest this week is Jesse Wienholts. Jesse works for Royal Dutch Visio in the Netherlands. He brings the Guys up to speed on upcoming innovations for blind and vision impaired people. He has tested out many new products, including 'Glidance' a prototype guide dog; this one doesn't eat sandwiches apparently! He also talks about the multiline braille display 'Monarch', as well as the upcoming Envision Assistant and a new GPS app called 'Voice Vision'. He has also been playing a game called 'Top Speed' and we ask, are video games for blind players really just about pressing buttons with no real sense of immersion? It's a welcome return to our former co-host Mr Stuart Lawler who is back on the show fresh from his bed because he has been burning the candle at both ends due to the International Conference on English Braille being held in New Zealand. Thanks for staying up late Stuart, now give us the skinny on this year's ICEB. And for those of you looking for an assistive tech bargain - Humanware and Sight and Sound currently have a sale on. So, forget about the fact the longest day of the year is behind us. Forget that fact that you still don't have a holiday booked, and instead remember all you really need is to sit down with a cuppa joe and listen to the most informative podcast this side of a polar bear sliding down a glacier: Blind Guys Chat. 6 out of 10 robot guide dogs prefer it to eating electrodes! Links for this show: · Royal Dutch Visio: https://enviter.eu/members/royal-dutch-visio/ · Glidance: https://glidance.io/ · Monarch: https://www.humanware.com/en-usa/monarch · Envision Assistant: https://envision-assistant.com/ · Voice Vision in Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voicevista/id6450388413 · Top Speed: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbegames.and.top_speed_racing&hl=en_IE&pli=1 · Humanware sale: https://store.humanware.com/heu/promotion Support Blind Guys Chat by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blind-guys-chatRead transcript

Sight Village Exhibitions are a great place to find out more about the latest technology, equipment and support services available to people who are blind or partially sighted. Dave Williams is in Birmingham for this year's Sight Village Central, where he caught up with Stuart Lawler from ‘Sight and Sound'.

It's time for another fun-filled 60 minutes with the blind guys, and this week we welcome back part-time co-host and part-time sunbather - Stuart Lawler. Yes Stuart is gracing us with his presence so he can tell Óran and Jan all about his latest holiday - smiling pile of poo emoji. This week in a change to our normal programming i.e Óran moaning about something, we instead have Jan standing on his soapbox giving out about trying to pay a restaurant bill using a touch screen credit card machine. Have you ever been forced to give your pin number to a stranger? Well we think enough is enough, and action is required. Stuart has recorded a demo using his very best friend, Chat GPT. Clodagh's got emails from Gary Hough like cough, and an audio message from Dave Nason, who has news about Sky support being available via the Be My Eyes app. So, chill out on your deck chair. Have the pool boy dredge the pool for toenail clippings, and get settled in for episode 72 of the number one podcast in the omniverse: Blind Guys Chat! 8 out of 11 field mice prefer it to a big chunk of emmental. Support Blind Guys Chat by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/blind-guys-chat

This week Steve Tyler, Director of Assistive Technology at Leonard Cheshire gives us his take on the recent trend for so-called ‘artificial intelligence' tools, Callum asks Stuart Lawler from Sight and Sound all about the Senseplayer from HIMS and of course we'll be tackling your emails. You can listen to the show live in the UK every Tuesday at 1pm on Freeview Channel 730, online at www.rnibconnectradio.org.uk , or on your smart speaker. You'll hear new episodes of the Tech Talk Podcast every Friday so make sure you're subscribed to never miss an episode. We'd love to hear your thoughts on accessible technology, drop us an email at techtalk@rnib.org.uk or tweet us @RNIBRadio with the hashtag #RNIBTechTalk

Wednesday 4th January is World Braille Day, and we're delighted to announce details of a half-day online conference that we're putting together in association with our friends at the Braillists Foundation. This podcast episode is somewhat different to our regular output, in that we have a guest host in the wonderful Steven Scott, host of the DoubleTap podcast, who has kindly taken the show into his very capable hands to sit down with Matthew Horspool from the Braillists Foundation and our own Stuart Lawler, to talk all things Braille, and of course, to talk more about the World Braille Day conference. This episode is also being simulcast on the Braillists Foundation's podcast feed, so if you subscribe to both our shows you will likely hear it twice! Sincere thanks to Steven for doing a great job in bringing us together and stimulating some great discussion. We hope you will enjoy this very special episode.

The Blind Guys are back for another day of shenanigans at Sight Village Central in Solihull. Steven Scott, Shaun Preece and Robin Christopherson are together in person and discuss the virtues of blind golf, how to get fit and we chat to Sight and Sound Technology's Stuart Lawler about their headline sponsorship of the event and also about their products, including some interesting news if you are on the lookout for a cheap way to get JAWS - the screen reader. Listen in through the next few episodes as we will bring you lots more conversations and interviews we have recorded at Sight Village. We would also like to thank the team, especially Karen Easthope and Lottie Reid from Queen Alexandra College in Birmingham, for their gracious and considerable support in allowing us to be a part of the event this year. Keep in touch with your questions by emailing us at hello@blindguytalkstech.com or call 0204 571 3354 and leave us a voicemail.

In celebration of all things Braille for World Braille Day today (Tuesday 4 January 2022) Connect Radio's Toby Davey chats with Stuart Lawler, Head of Content Creation and Business Development Manager for Sight and Sound Technology Ireland to find out what Braille means to him and how he might be celebrating the life of Louis Braille on World Braille Day. Stuart began by telling Toby how he was introduced to Braille at an early age at school with the excitement of the arrival of a Perkins Brailler all the way from Dublin to his school in the Irish countryside and how the arrival of the Perkins Brailler brought Braille to life for him. For Stuart, Braille means access to information, literacy, reading with his hands and not relying on speech and Stuart will even read from Braille paper and not from a refreshable Braille display when delivering a speech or presentation. As Stuart works for Sight and Sound Technology demonstrating and promoting Braille technology to blind and partially sighted people on a day-to-day basis, he is very excited about the future of multiline Braille displays for use with Braille music, Braille maths, etc. Stuart feels that blind people are the best ambassadors for Braille and all Braille users should except any form of Braille when it is offered to them us such as Braille menus as one example, to make sure that those producing Braille know that their Braille is being used.  Stuart will be celebrating World Braille Day by getting out his Perkins Brailler and playing with it to remind him that he has a Perkins which he may only use 3 or four times a year. The RNIB website and shop have a wide range of information and resources on learning Braille and more details can be found by visiting -  https://www.rnib.org.uk/practical-help/reading/braille-and-moon-tactile-codes For more details on Sight and Sound Technology do visit their website -  https://www.sightandsound.co.uk/ (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)

For at least the past 30 years, blind people have been well-served by notetakers: electronic, computer-like devices with a Perkins-style keyboard and speech and braille output. At their most basic level, they've functioned as an electronic brailler for composing documents and, of course, taking notes, but they've also included functionality such as a calculator, address list, scheduler and, latterly, internet connectivity. Over the past few years, there's been a steady shift towards vastly increasing the capabilities of these devices, with many moving towards either Windows or Android. The latest of this newer style of notetaker is the BrailleSense 6 from Selvis Healthcare (formerly Hims). It measures 9.65×5.67×0.87 inches, weighs 1.58 lbs (2.3 lbs with case), and is equipped with a 4590 mAh user-replaceable battery, wi-fi up to 802.11AC, Bluetooth 5.1, GPS and compass, USB C with display port functionality, full-size SD card slot, 13 MP rear camera, microphone and stereo speakers. It's also just received its first software update. Stuart Lawler is Head of Digital Content at Sight and Sound Technology Ltd, and Business Development Manager at Sight and Sound Ireland, and he joined me to tell us more about this update and the BrailleSense as a whole. The BrailleSense 6 retails for £4395 excluding VAT. Useful Links The Sight and Sound Technology PodcastSight and Sound Technology on YoutubeSenseCast, the international podcast from HimsHims International on Youtube

Welcome to Sight and Sound Technology's annual session, to explore all that is new in the latest release of JAWS, the world's most popular screen reader. Joining our team James Everson, Fionnuala Murphy and Stuart Lawler from Sight and Sound Technology, are Eric Damery, Jan Bloem and Mohammed Laachir from Vispero.

Welcome to the first in a series of four sessions, exploring some of the new and not so new features found on the BrailleSense 6, the world's most powerful note taker. In this session, Sight and Sound Technology's Stuart Lawler takes us through the email application.

On this episode we bring you a double dose of goodness!Mark Belcher is manager of the Knowledge Village, an initiative of Henshaws Society for the Blind in Manchester. We’ve recently started an exciting collaboration with Henshaws and Stuart catches up with Mark to find out all about what he and his team do.Our good friend Stuart Beveridge is rather smitten with the Envision glasses, so much so that he's gone and started a podcast all about them! This will be an invaluable resource for anyone who has just received the Envision kit and needs a helping hand, or for someone who’s thinking about them and wants to know more. Our own Stuart Lawler sits down with Stuart to talk all things Envision podcast and the use of the Clubhouse social network.

This episode is a recording of a Stay Safe: Stay Connected call with Stuart Lawler held on Friday 14 August 2020. Stuart Lawler has co-hosted many a Dublin Braillists meeting since 2015. He became Specialist Lead for Braille Product Portfolio at Sight and Sound technology Ltd in September 2018 and has over 20 years’ experience ... Read more...

How many times have you said ‘let me check the diary’? For many of us an electronic diary is a core part of our digital arsenal and, in many cases, we’re accessing it on more than one device. So, what’s available and how does all this tech work? IN this session, Sight and sound Technology’s Sharon Lyons and Stuart Lawler explore two big players in this space, with calendar offerings from Google and Microsoft.

This week's Webinar Wednesday features another tech surgery, where Sight and Sound Technology's James Everson, Sharon Lyons, Karl Brealey and Stuart Lawler are on hand to answer your questions.

This week we explore screen magnification software focusing primarily on Dolphin SuperNova Magnifier & Speech, a product that enables people with visual impairment to independently access their computer for work, in education or in the home.We are delighted to welcome to the live event NCBI staff member Hilary Devlin who will give us an insight into how screen magnification software including SuperNova has helped her in her own job role. We are also delighted to welcome to the live event Stuart Lawler for our Seeing It Your Way segment. Stuart will be discussing with us his use of technology in his personal and professional life.Support the show (https://www.ncbi.ie/supporting-us/donate-now/)

Welcome to our latest Webinar Wednesday event, where Jenny Axler and Stuart Lawler explore the world of Android applications using the Braille Sense Polaris. You'll learn about reading books, accessing TV programmes and movies, and, of course, how to get apps from the Google Play Store.

Welcome to our next Webinar Wednesday podcast. ON this episode we're talking all things ElBraille, with Sight and Sound Technology's Tony Shrubb and Stuart Lawler, and the Elita Group's Adi Kushnir, who is product manager for the ElBraille device, and who answers many questions from attendees.

This episode features a couple of interviews that we recorded at the recent Sight Village South East exhibition. We also hear one person’s perspective on the ElBraille. Jenny Axler, Technical Support Manager at Hims and Stuart Lawler, Manager of Sight & Sound Ireland, join us to discuss the BrailleSense Polaris and Polaris Mini, QBraille XL, ... Read more...

Sight and Sound Technology's Matt Pateman, Ash Cross, Sharon Lyons and Stuart Lawler are all on-hand in our technology surgery to help answer any questions from attendees. This is the final session in the Summer School series.

Session 4 in our Summer School series features Stuart Lawler, country manager at Sight and Sound Ireland, who describes and talks us through the use of the Focus Braille display family from Vispero.

Welcome to our very first webinar from Thursday November 1st 2018. Stuart Lawler talks us through the new and exciting features in JAWS 2019, including faster start-up and a more responsive overall experience, improved performance in Office 365 applications, notification of spelling errors in Word and Outlook 365, Phonetic speaking of characters during navigation and much more. We are also joined by Brian Hartgen from Hartgen Consultancy, who talks not only about support in Skype 8 provided natively in JAWS 2019, but also about significant enhancements available to JAWS users of Skype, available for purchase from his company. For more information visit www.hartgenconsultancy.com

Welcome to the very first episode of Sight and Sound Technology’s podcast, brought to you from our new Dublin office! Our host Stuart Lawler introduces himself and then introduces our CEO Glenn Tookey, who talks about Sight and Sound, the new Ireland office and the launch of our new podcast. We meet Laura and Aleks, two ladies living in Birmingham who have set up a podcast called ‘Suddenly Sightless’ to share tips and information of use to those living with sight loss.

The next major release of our screen reading software, JAWS 2019, is about to enter public beta as this podcast is published. Eric Damery takes us through some of the new features available immediately, and those planned for the JAWS 2019 cycle. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Stuart Lawler, who has a new role with Sight and Sound as it expands to Ireland.

Freedom Scientific has plenty planned for the national conventions of NFB and ACB. We'll give you a summary of what attendees have to look forward to. Matt Ater tells us about the new Freedom Scientific Training Bundle, which puts a huge amount of training in the palm of your hand. We speak with Stuart Lawler of NCBI in Ireland about his work training people to use Freedom Scientific products, and about Eric Damery's forthcoming visit on 18 July. Mark Arnold gives us an update from American Blind Golf, which Freedom Scientific is proud to sponsor. And in the first JAWS Byte contributed by a user, we hear from Juan Alicea, who talks us through the JAWS Start-up Wizard. Show Host: Jonathan Mosen Episode 91 - June, 2014

David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to a new release of Fleksy a way of inputting information into your iOS device and shows us many of its' new features. Stuart Lawler from the National Council for the Blind of ireland introduces the screen reader for Blackberry cell phones and demos some of its' features. Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network at the 2012 ACB Convention interviews Ron Miller from Freedom Scientific, and they discuss some of the new products from FS. Shane Davidson brings us the second part of his interview and demo of the Swamp Audio Game. And David Woodbridge demos the Accessibility Panel shortcuts in Mountain Lion. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Visit the Main Menu website at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org