Living Blindfully
Sight is a highly dominant sense. If you have it, naturally you’ll use it for a lot of things. But if you don’t have it, or you don’t have as much sight as you used to, it’s still possible to live a rich, full life. This podcast is all about how it’s done. We offer tips and tricks for living blindfully, including plenty about the latest accessible technology, but we discuss the barriers too, ranging from attitudinal barriers to accessibility barriers and more. Hear interviews with movers and shakers in the field, plus plenty from our engage...
Glide is a revolutionary mobility device that may change everything, Voice Dream Reader is back on track, and a difficult conversation about a topical issue
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Welcome to 277 0:00 Existing Voice Dream Reader customers can keep what they paid for 2:59 Amos Miller discusses the forthcoming Glide mobility device 8:41 Guiding in the swimming pool 1:10:58 Non-24 and managing insomnia 1:11:53 Boycotting Israeli technology products 1:22:20 First impressions of my Phonak Lumity hearing aid trial 1:44:30 Closing and contact info 1:59:32.108
Voice Dream Reader at odds with Apple's App Review Guidelines, iOS 17.4 feedback, and track your ketosis accessibly using the Keyto Breath Sensor
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Welcome to 276 0:00 More on Voice Dream Reader 2:07 intersectionality, the BT Speak, customer service and swimming 30:43 Tempo Perfect, an accessible metronome app 35:52 contacting TSA Cares 38:33 Transcriptions in Apple Podcasts 39:48 Why VoiceOver switches languages in the status bar in iOS 17.4 42:14 Comments on the Deane Blazie interview 52:21 Dictation in iOS 17.4 59:04 Problems with the Guardian app 1:02:12 Windows 10 and 11 1:03:32 I saw an Apple Vision Pro 1:06:44 Comments on some recent topics 1:08:56 Victor Reader Stream 2 and Audible 1:19:35 Review of the Keyto Breath Sensor 1:21:31 Comments on iOS 17.4 1:31:58 Dolby Atmos 1:33:27 ...
Voice Dream Reader moves to subscriptions for all users, blind people and Linux, old DOS apps, and Jonathan's new hearing aid journey
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Welcome to 275 0:00 Voice Dream Reader to charge a subscription to people who paid for the app 2:10 Kishin Manglani from Applause Group discusses the Voice Dream Reader subscription controversy, and the future of the app 23:42 Living Blindfully Plus 57:29 Joining a Zoom meeting when recording is in progress 59:15 The Zoom HEssential handy recorders 1:02:01 Blind people using Linux 1:21:07 Running old DOS programmes on today's Windows 1:33:36 Help with Oticon hearing aids 1:51:36 It's new hearing aid time 1:53:57 Closing and contact info 2:00:15
Jonathan Mosen's demonstration and review of the Zoom H1Essential Handy Recorder
Jonathan's series on the Essential recorders from Zoom, which have accessibility features, concludes on this Living Blindfully extra with the look at the Zoom H1Essential. This is the smallest member of the family and sells for just $99 USD. It can fit in any pocket, and offers high-quality 32-bit float recording. While understandably the recorder lacks some of the features of its larger siblings, it also boasts some features unique to this member of the family.
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Welcome to 274 0:00 Introduction 1:18 ...
Jonathan Mosen's demonstration and review of the Zoom H4Essential Handy Recorder
Continuing his extensive look at the accessible Zoom Essential family, Jonathan demonstrates and reviews the Zoom H4Essential in this Living Blindfully Extra. With its compact size, powerful features and priced at just $199 USD, the H4Essential may be the Goldilocks recorder for many. While this review stands alone and therefore revisits many of the features found in the H6Essential, Jonathan expands further on the powerful mixer functionality and some other features.
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Welcome to 273 0:00 Introduction 0:59 Orientation 4:22 Inaccessible arming...
Jonathan Mosen's review and demonstration of the Zoom H6Essential handy recorder
In this Living Blindfully extra, Jonathan Mosen begins his reviews of all three recorders in the Essential series, with the Zoom H6Essential
Zoom has provided these units so the reviews can be produced, but have not heard these reviews before publication, nor influence what they contain.
There is considerable interest from the blind community in the Zoom Essential series, due to the accessibility features available in this professional class of equipment.
The h6Essential is the most capable member of the series, providing six tracks of recording, interchangeable microphone capsules, 32 bit float...
Aira joins the AI party, new devices at CSUN, and a user review of the All Terrain cane
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Welcome to 271 0:00 Troy Otillio and Everette Bacon from Aira discuss Access AI and more 1:51 A look at Aira's Access AI feature 45:49 Other items of note at CSUN 1:06:06 Things to know when trying to charge a Qardiobase scale 1:09:27 Running a DOS programme on Windows 1:11:47 Goodmaps in German 1:14:04 Mixer to record phone conversations 1:15:26 the All-Terrain Cane and duo Lingo on a smartphone 1:17:44 Samsung and Microsoft integration 1:21:06 Best notetaker for college 1:23:27 Trouble in Zoom meetings 1:27:14 Do we still need dedicated digital talking book players 1:31:18 ...
A conversation with Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie, accessibility is a fundamental human right, and welcome to the Matrix
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Welcome to 270 0:00 Jonathan Mosen speaks with Microsoft's Chief Accessibility Officer, Jenny Lay-Flurrie 3:15 Accessibility is a fundamental human right 47:29 You may not know texts are being truncated, and generalSiri thoughts 57:12 Impressed with my Chromebook 1:10:49 Questions about Sonos and Dolby Atmos 1:12:31 Lectrote interactive fiction interpreter 1:20:15 Transporting and caring for kids 1:22:49 Blind people and video editing 1:25:16 The good and bad of the new Stuff website 1:29:58 Everything you ever wanted to know about Matrix 1:32:37 Make Windows 10 free for blind people 1:46:22 Where is the NFB Newsline...
What's next for the Envision smart glasses and app, iOS 17.4, and AI image recognition comes to JAWS
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Welcome to 269 0:00 Three extra episodes coming up 1:35 The founders of Envision, Karthik Mahadevan and Karthik Kannan, discuss Envision today and in the near future 4:26 iOS 17.4 is a significant release 1:07:57 JAWS introduces AI image recognition 1:22:23 Comments on the Deane Blazie interview 1:37:46 More memories of David Holladay 1:42:03 The Bonnie bulletin 1:44:28 Closing and contact info 1:59:59
Blindness technology icon Deane Blazie goes down memory lane, then discusses his new notetaker, BT Speak, from Blazie Technologies
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Welcome to 268 0:00 Jonathan Mosen speaks with Deane Blazie about Deane's significant role in blindness technology history 2:58 Deane Blazie tells Jonathan Mosen about the new BT Speak line from Blazie Technologies 1:09:05 Remembering David Holladay 1:38:50 Response to episode 267 on intersectionality 1:40:36 Can I swim with the FeelSpace Navibelt? 1:45:01 Where to obtain the Blind Alive accessible workouts 1:47:40 Pursuing a career in customer service 1:49:09 Impressions of the Seleste Smart Glasses, and Apple thoughts 1:51:23 Be My AI, and airlines with Braille safety cards 1:53:51 Vocaster 2 with the Mac 1:56:01 ...
