This week we’re bantering with Peter Tucic, Blackhawks fan and Blindness Product Specialist, about Humanware’s line of forthcoming new products — as well as a bit of hockey smack talk for good measure.
Show Notes
Humanware
http://www.humanware.com/
Canadian Assistive Technology
http://canasstech.com
How To Get Your Apps and Ringtones Back on Your Mac and PC with iTunes 12.6.3
https://coolblindtech.com/how-to-get-your-apps-and-ringtones-back-on-your-mac-and-pc-with-itunes-12-6-3/
This week we travel across the pond (via Skype of course – we don’t have that much of a budget) and banter with Steve Bennett from Dolphin Software, makers of the SuperNova screen magnification and screen reader software.
Show Notes
Dolphin Software
https://yourdolphin.com/
Canadian Assistive Technology
http://www.canasstech.com
This week we welcome Tom Dekker, founder of iHabilitation Canada, blogger and Blindness advocate into the Guitar Dungeon where he discusses his early days of Phone Phreaking, some current trends in AT, and the fight against a new set of standards being introduced for Canadian Guide Dogs.
Show Notes
Hands off Our Harnesses
https://handsoffourharnesses.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/handsoffourharnesses/
iHabilitation
Rob, Ryan and Steve are back to basics with one of their patented stream-of-consciousness News shows, joined by Chaos Technical Service’s Rick Chant. Listen in as they discuss everything from fruit fly genitalia to hijacked voice assistants, and everything in between!
Show Notes
These Disabled Americans Are Getting Dragged Out and Arrested for Demonstrating Over Healthcare
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12466578/disabled-protesters-healthcare-hearing/
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/13/us-senator-questions-face-id-privacy-security/
Wearables Fashion Show at the Accessibility Innovation Showcase at Invictus Games https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/09/23/wearable-assistive-technology-will-hit-the-runway-at-invictus-showcase.html
Google assistant comes to Bose head phones
https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/135419/google-assistant-comes-bose-headphones
Amazon brings new accessibility to Fire devices
https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ter2a57g6htm6mr
Your future sex robot could be hacked and programmed to murder you
http://bgr.com/2017/09/11/sex-robot-hack-security-cyborg/
Internet of cells
http://www.nature.com/news/how-the-internet-of-cells-has-biologists-buzzing-1.22645
Hijacked Voice Assistants
https://coolblindtech.com/how-alexa-siri-google-assistant-can-be-listening-without-you-knowing-it/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost
Google Chrome Will No Longer Autoplay Content With Sound In January 2018
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/09/15/2232241/google-chrome-will-no-longer-autoplay-content-with-sound-in-january-2018
Rob’s off this week and leaves the podcast duties to Steve and Ryan, who talk with Nancy Willard, Director of Embrace Civility in the Digital Age, a program and advocacy movement that targets online bullying and bad online behaviors.
Show Notes
Embrace Civility in the Digital Age
This week we do a bit of iBantering about the new Apple announcements before we’re joined by Idan Meir, co-founder and CEO of Right-Hear, an app and accessibility solution for the visually impaired.
Show Notes
Apple Special Event As It Happened
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-8-release-apple-event-as-it-happened/
Right-Hear
http://right-hear.com/
Right-Hear App for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.righthear&hl=en
Right-Hear App for iOS
https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/right-hear-righthear/id1061791840?mt=8
This week we briefly discuss the new Eye Tracking software that will be included in the forthcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update before engaging in a Banterfest with Wade Wingler, Vice President of Technology and Information Services and Security Office at Easterseals Crossroads and host of the long running podcast Assistive Technology Update.
Show Notes
Easterseals Crossroads
http://www.eastersealscrossroads.org/
Assistive Technology Update
http://www.eastersealstech.com/category/assistive-tech-update/
It’s our longest and most self-indulgent episode yet! This week we take a deep dive into the life and times of our own Steve Barclay and discuss the rise and fall of Aroga Technologies. An open and earnest discussion about just what happened with the Assistive Technology company we all worked at, and where things are going in the future.
Show Notes
Canadian Assistive Technology
www.canasstech.com
Chaos Technical Services
www.chaostechnicalservices.com
Steve is back in studio this week and we learn where he’s been all this time before welcoming Jessica Kovacs to the show where she tells us all about her blog, ‘Thomas Marshall Does It All’, where she details the day to day life of her son Tommy who is growing up blind.
Show Notes
Thomas Marshall Does It All
http://www.thomasmarshalldoesitall.com/
TMDIA Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ThomasMarshallDoesItAll
TMDIA Twitter
https://twitter.com/thomasdoesitall
Faith No More
http://www.fnm.com
Ever wonder if there were comic books for the Blind and visually impaired? Well wonder no more, Citizen! This week we’re talking with Guy Hasson, founder of a virtual comic book shop that produces audio described comic books specifically for the visually impaired community.
Show Notes
Comics Empower
Visit the Comics Empower website and see the entire library of comics that are available. You can also find them on Twitter @comicsempower and check out their podcast, Blind Panels.
