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    Oct 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon

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    The Triple-click Home team is back with another podcast full of talk about iOS, Yosemite and more. Jamie Pauls takes the host’s chair this time around, and Lisa Salinger drops by to talk about using Widgets in iOS 8. All that plus your feedback can be heard on Episode 34. Stories covered this month include:

    Top of the News

    Thoughts on Apple’s 2014 iPad and Mac event

    Editorial: A friendlier Apple Inc now invites media through its Infinite Loop front door

    OS X Yosemite Review

    Features and Bugs of OS X 10.10 Yosemite

    Apple’s iOS 8.1 hits Monday with Apple Pay, iCloud photo library

    Accessibility Fixes And Improvements in iOS 8.1

    A subscription free version of Sendero’s Seeing Eye GPS app for iOS is now available for $299

    The new version of @KNFBReader is out.

    Woz: Hello iPhone 6, goodbye Android

    Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

    Feature Writer Alena Roberts – The Life and Times of Joe Engressia, aka JoyBubbles

    Macs top over one quarter of US back-to-school PC sales

    Apple says only 9 customers have complained about bent iPhones

    This new “Apple SIM” could legitimately disrupt the wireless industry

    Team Picks

    Buddy recommends Zinio and The Magazine.

    John has been playing with the KNFB Reader.

    Alena will recommend Fleksy when it gets fixed.

    Jamie recommends the iOS game “Lost Cities”.

    How One Boy With Autism Became B.F.F.’s With Apple’s Siri

    If Siri Was a Waitress

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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  • 23
    Sep 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 33: Where’s the Braille

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    The entire Triple-click Home team is back for this month’s podcast. Jamie and Derek join the team to discuss the recent Apple event announcing new iPhones plus the unveiling of Apple Watch. Discussion next turns to the good, the bad and the undecided with regard to iOS 8. Also included are some AppleVis links not discussed in the podcast.

    Hands-On First Impressions of the New iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

    iPhones with bigger screens may find eager senior buyers

    Apple Pay Is The Most Important News Out Of Today’s Launch Event

    Why Apple Pay could be the mobile-payment system you’ll actually use

    Why Walmart and Best Buy aren’t backing Apple Pay

    Sources Say The Next Version Of The Apple Watch Is Going To Be Much Better

    Exclusive: Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work

    Everything That You Need to Know About iOS 8 Will Be On AppleVis On Release Day

    Acapela Voices Temporarily Not Available in iOS 8

    The Accessibility Bugs in iOS 8: From Serious To Minor

    What’s New in iOS 8 Accessibility for Blind, Low-Vision, and Deaf-Blind Users

    Mailbag

    From Jenine Stanley:

    Oh can I relate to Buddy’s Pro Tip for those of us who find ourselves straddling both worlds.

    My work laptop is a Windows machine and it’s good for what it does, sort of, but I’m really enjoying most of my leisure and home chores on my MacBook Pro.

    Nope, those Mac commands do not work in Windows and sometimes they do very bad things to your work. I recently went all the way to getting a trouble ticket written for a problem I was having. When I talked to the tech at the outside support service, he asked me for exact steps. I told him and he laughed, in that way you know you’re not supposed to do but …

    “Ma’am, that’s a Mac command. Do you use a Mac at home?”

    “Uh, yeah, I do. thanks. I’m going to just dig a big ole hole now.”

    And yes, Alena, I was taught way back when to start with any new program by exploring the menu system. See what it offers and how to do those things. It’s held me in good stead for many years, many more than I care to think about.

    And Buddy, evil as you are, I’m with ya in the playing pranks on the computer teacher. Of course we’d just gotten the IBM Selectric typewriters when I was in high school and the Trash 80 computers didn’t come out until a couple years later. I had my fun at work.

    We set up the old DOS machines we had so that the screen came up with a red background and red letters. Then I did a whole demo on some aspect of accessibility. Then I got called into my boss’s office to hear how that wasn’t funny. Made my point though.

    Oh and you could indeed set up some key commands, like hot keys, outside of the screen reader, for Windows and more for DOS. Could I remember how to do it now? No, but I had a couple cool ones back in the day.

    Blog comment from Jesse

    There seems to be a lot of wining about a larger iPhone screen in recent episodes. True, some people don’t want larger screens and that’s fine. But there are many blind and low vision users, low vision users especially, who are really looking forward to a larger iPhone, myself included. I have looked at several Android phones with larger screens, and would love to have an iPhone with these types of screens.

    Simply getting an iPad Mini isn’t a good solution either, for a couple of reasons. first, as a low vision user, I use the camera in my phone all the time. The camera in all iPad models isn’t as good, and for some reason, Apple has yet to add a camera flash, making many camera apps on the iPads rather pointless. I use my phone as a portable CCTV all the time and absolutely love it. A little larger screen would be very helpful, and when combined with a more open camera for developers, will make the iPhone even more comparable to dedicated handheld CCTV’s.

    Also, I use data everywhere on my phone, and don’t intend to pay for an expanded data plan to have data on my iPad. I’m fine with a Wi-Fi only iPad for now.

    These are just my thoughts though. I say, “Bring on the bigger phone.”

    Otherwise, I love the podcast, and keep up the great work.

    From Beth

    Hi, I was introduced to the slate and stylus in mid elementary school but I tended toward wrist rolling and hand pain when using it and, since I was adept at the Perkins Brailler, I did not persevere with the slate and haven’t since, with no desire to. I have no need to write stuff down when I’m out and I use the Perkins and the PC at home. I was fortunate to have parents and teachers who took my individual needs into account. I wonder about the wisdom of teaching screen readers at a very young age. Computers and phones are more intuitive if you have vision, since direct action can be done with the mouse or touch screen.
    Screen readers place a bridge of gestures and/or keyboard commands between the user and the device. Yes, very young kids’ brains are pliable and can soak up knowledge well but should so much info be thrown at such a young brain? Also, who will have or take the time to teach a very young child a screen reader? Most kids now are in homes where both parents work and, in general, parents do not have the time, energy or enthusiasm to learn a screen reader themselves, let alone teach it. We don’t have the resources to have that many teachers of the visually impaired to teach that many kids. Beth

    Wrapping Up

    Apple Creates Tool for Users to Delete Unwanted U2 Album

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

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    Aug 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 32: That’s How We Roll

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    The Triple-click Home team has been super busy this summer, so we decided to give them a bit of a vacation–well, most of them, anyway. Jamie and Buddy decided to change up the podcast a bit this month, and the rest of the gang agreed.

    This time around, Jamie Pauls takes a few minutes to demonstrate our shiny new version of iBlink Radio for the Mac.

    Lisa shows us how to use Fantastical 2, a calendar for iOS that meets her specific needs in a way that the native calendar does not.

    Finally, Jamie interviews the developers of Crossly, a crossword puzzle game for iOS that many in the blind community are enjoying.

    Next time around, the team hopes to be able to talk about all the cool stuff Apple plans to release this year. That should make for a full show, indeed and we will include your feedback as well. Until then, enjoy the rest of your summer!

    Closing Credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

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  • 23
    Jul 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 31: Tin Cans and String

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    Welcome to a jam packed episode of the Triple-click Home Podcast. John Panarese was unable to join the team this time around for exciting and mysterious reasons of which we cannot yet speak, so Jamie joined Alena and Buddy for this week’s show. From the top of the news to the unveiling of a new reference book for Voiceover users of the Mac, there is a lot to love about this month’s offering. Add in a dash of lively discussion surrounding your feedback, and we have quite a show for you this time around. Enough with the introductions. Let’s jump right to the …

    Top of the News

    NFB Adopts Resolution Urging Apple to Require All iOS Apps to Be Accessible

    KNFBReader iOS App Announced for $99

    Expensive Apps For iPhone and iPad

    New update to iBlink Radio

    Apple announces iTunes U update with iPad Course Creation, Student Discussions & more

    Apple iMac 21.5-Inch (2014) Review & Rating

    Top 10 keyboard shortcuts every new Mac owner needs to know!

    Apple TV adds ABC News, AOL On, PBS Kids, Willow TV, and redesigned Flickr app

    How to use Apple TV: The ultimate guide

    New privacy enhancements coming to iOS 8 in the fall

    Another rumor claims September 19 iPhone 6 launch, no 16GB version

    How Disney Could Help Apple Create a Killer iWatch

    Apple’s software ju-jitsu

    Interview

    This month, Jamie interviews Janet Ingber about her new book Learning to Use the Mac with Voiceover. This is an extremely valuable resource for anyone who is new to the Mac as well as those who simply want a good reference book at their fingertips, and who doesn’t need that from time to time. Our thanks to Janet for sharing her time with us this month.

    Also check out iOS Access for All: Your comprehensive guide to accessibility for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. by Shelly Brisbin

    You can also listen to Lisa Salinger’s interview with Shelly on SeroTalk Podcast 203.

    AudioSpeed Racing now available for Mac and PC

    Weather Radio by WDT

    AFB Launches an App for AFB CareerConnect and It’s FREE!

    Announcing the launch of Spoken 21; an accessible blackjack game

    The Drive: An app designed to lead the blind safely

    5 Years of VoiceOver: Look How Far We’ve Come

    Team Picks

    This time around, Jamie recommends weather radio, discussed earlier in the podcast. There appears to be a dirth of new apps in the Brannan household, but not to worry as Alena comes to the rescue with the following recommendations

    Exploring Braille

    Blindfold Racer
    And finally, Math Robot.

    Closing credits

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Jamie Pauls on Twitter

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    Jun 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 30: The Secret Slide

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    Welcome to the aftermath of Apple’s WWDC keynote address, otherwise known as Triple-click Home Episode 30. This month, the team pokes a bit of fun at some Twitter feedback while discussing the rather momentous news from this year’s WWDC event.

    Monday at WWDC: Apple delivers big surprises as most predictions ended up wrong

    Everything Apple Tried to Kill Today at WWDC

    Summary of Announcements from WWDC 2014 Keynote | AppleVis

    OS X Yosemite Set To Be Released This Fall As A Free Download

    How to create a test partition for the OS X Yosemite beta

    iOS 8 Release Scheduled for Fall

    iOS 8 First Look: Features & Images

    Fleksy keyboard coming to iOS 8

    32 Hidden Features in Apple iOS 8

    How to downgrade back to iOS 7 from the iOS 8 beta

    Farewell iPhone 4: No iOS 8 upgrade for you

    With iOS 8, Apple Shows Android a Thing or Two

    Why Coders Are Going Nuts Over Apple’s New Programming Language

    Apple posts stream & download of WWDC 2014 video

    The Apple-Beats Deal: A 10-Year Affair Ends in Marriage

    WWDC and iOS 8 hints point straight to an Apple iWatch

    Mailbag

    From Pam Francis:

    Hello folks, Thank you for another quite informative addition of triple click home. I agree with your assessment of the entitlement mentality. I think it truly begins at home when a blind person is young and attempting to integrate with the family. If the family is ignorant of whatever resources they can access to help their blind family member, it’s easier to wait on them, do for them, make them feel entitled, ultimately giving them a pass at life. I know from personal experience how once family can make one feel like a sore thumb, sticking out with and family activities, children’s games etc. by the grace of the living God, I had an advocate from the time I was in preschool through early adulthood. She was my preschool teacher in a blind preschool here in Kansas City. Her advocacy along with my extroverted personality helped me escape the shelter of my family and grow into myself. I think it is also imperative for anyone with any kind of a disability to develop networking skills within their community. As for the division between the blind organizations, I think it has done more harm than good. We all have a common goal as all of you stressed on your Podcast. I understand there are different ways to get there, however there’s no reason for all of the backbiting between the various organizations and their splinter groups. That in itself helps to create the negative image we, who are functioning members of society have to live down. I don’t belong to either group. I don’t feel better than anyone, yet I don’t want to deal with all of the infighting that comes with group membership. I have done things and Been places within my life that the majority of my family members dream about. I’m not afraid to go anywhere. I also heard you make mention of looking at restaurant menus. Not sure if you’re familiar with the allmenus app. I’m enclosing a link to the app within the body of this email. It is completely accessible. The link I have is to the iOS app. I don’t know if It is available on android. In closing, I hope in this era of technology the division between the blind organizations and blind people in general has been mitigated by the use of technology and the need to learn. Thanks again, keep up the good work. Sincerely, Pam francis

    Allmenus by Dotmenu

    From Jenine Stanley:

    Thanks Lisa for verifying my thought about the new Fleksy. I kept thinking the keyboard was smaller and I actually like it now that I got that idea into my head and am using it as such rather than the old way. I still want an easier way to do numbers and symbols but I’ll use the VO app if I really want that. Nice that both still work.

    As for us as a community, the divide as I see it is those who want to be just people who happen to not do things visually versus those who want to be considered special because of that fact. These divides are present within both national groups of blind people so it’s not an ACB versus NFB thing so much as a focus on what you can do versus what you can’t.

    I just see so much of the attitude that “We can’t because we are blind and we need this or that special thing, service or price break.” versus “OK, if you could add this, I’d have an even better experience with your product or service than I already do.”

    Now if we can get Fleksy into Status Report I’ll be a very happy camper.

    Jenine Stanley

    Another from Jenine:

    Not to be a curmudgeon about this one but though the UK has more audio description, is it as good? Is some info, even when grossly incorrect, better than no info?

    OK, I’ll admit to being a spoiled purist when it comes to audio description. I cut my teeth on the proliferation of live audio description done by really quality describers that has been available in Columbus, Ohio since the ’80’s. Wow, looking back, that’s a long time.

    The height of this experience was seeing Titanic described live. Sorry James Cameron and Angie Dickenson, our live describer had you both beat hands down.

    So I do enjoy grabbing TV series and such from places like Blind Mice Mart but recently I was very frustrated with my experiences with one.

    I am a giant Game of Thrones fan and actually read all of the books before gobbling up the TV series. I know the plot, the characters, all that good stuff and there are a ton of characters in this story. I recommended the HBO series to a friend in part because of the stunning audio that comes with HBO production. Great but she was so confused by the audio description getting the names wrong or giving minimal or sometimes incorrect descriptions of things that she gave up or had me translate.

    That got me wondering about other shows with such description. I gave up on Downton Abbey in part because the description frustrated me.

    so be careful what you wish for.

    Jenine Stanley

    What’s Apple Really Up To? Keeping You in Apple World.

    Team Picks

    Buddy Brannan is getting fit and having fun at the same time with the popular iOS game Zombies, Run!

    Listen to Alena’s interview with the game developer in episode 23.

    Alena Roberts is enjoying good food with Yelp and planning travel with Transit Times Plus.

    Finally, John Panarese is being a good uncle and getting into baseball this season with the MLB At Bat app.

    Contacting the Team

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

    Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter

    Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter

    Follow John Panarese on Twitter

    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter

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    May 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 29: Eat Something

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    To help remake accessibility training as we know it, visit http://www.a11y.tv to view training subscription options and make your contribution to EZFire’s A11YTV funding campaign.

    Welcome to the post-April-Fools, pre-WWDC edition of the Triple-click Home Podcast. This month, Jamie Pauls takes the host’s chair and Lisa Salinger fills in for an ailing Buddy Brannan. Their discussion of the top news stories of the month includes many twists and turns this time around, so sit back and enjoy the ride.

    Top of the News

    Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details)

    Lisa recommends the book Cell by Robin Cook

    Audioboo / This is got to be the weirdest android voice I have ever heard!

    By the numbers: a breakdown of Apple’s Q2 2014 earnings call

    Apple v. Samsung jury foreman says the “consumer is the loser”

    Nobody knows why Apple would buy Beats, but plenty of people are guessing

    Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine expected to become Apple executives as part of Beats acquisition

    What if Apple bought Beats not for headphones, but wearables?

    Lisa reviews the FitBit in our 2013 holiday special

    Walgreens & Walmart testing iBeacons, Motorola Solutions launches iBeacon marketing platform

    Spotlight: Spring Cleaning

    Spring is in the air! It’s the time of year when we throw open the windows and throw out everything we’ve collected over the past year and decide we no longer need. Why not do the same with the apps on our i-devices?

    Spring Cleaning iOS: Simple and Essential Maintenance Tips for iPhone & iPad

    Community Focus

    Journey towards accessibility: We are home!

    TestFlight » Fleksy on iOS Beta Recruitment

    Sendero Group and RNIB Partner to Release Full-Featured GPS App for UK Users

    My Initial Thoughts on the RNIB Navigator App

    Accessibility options for iPhone and iPad — Everything you need to know! | iMore

    Making DAW Software Accessible for Blind Audio Engineers and Musicians

    Solo-Dx Comes to Accessibility Hound

    Introducing Perkinput for iOS; the Newest Text Entry Alternative to the Keyboard for Braille Users

    App Review: Talking Tuner

    Jamie Pauls demonstrates a neat little app for tuning his guitar. He invites listeners to suggest similar apps that they find useful.

    Mailbag

    From Greg:

    Hello all,

    You guys have really out done yourselves this year. I nearly fell off my couch when I started listening to That Android Show and Triple Click Home. These are really some of the best shows you guys and gals have done. Keep up the good work.

    Thanks,

    Greg Wocher(Your friendly neighborhood BlindMan) 🙂

    From Tony:

    What a great job on episode28, lots of voices, snappy pace, and what made the episode for me were the drop INS. The app demonstrations are a great addition, and the app developer interview was so relevant. My hope is that this is the trend.

    All the best,

    Tony

    Another from Tony:

    Would you please consider discussing what closing an app really means? For instance, why is it that when I close Pandora, TuneIn, Hourly News, and other audio apps, once closed through the App Switcher, if I do a double finger double tap, audio resumes. Are the apps closed or just resting? Are they eating up battery life? Why bother closing them? If they have a stop button, isn’t that as effective as closing them? Doesn’t seem so. The only way I find to really put them to sleep is by turning off my phone. What’s up with that?

    Thanks,

    Tony

    From Jenine:

    Very nice guest hosts of TCH this time and love the app demos from Steve and Ana. Those are a fun addition and I grabbed Google Search which I wasn’t using and learned more about Google Maps which I was using but not lately.

    OK, so do you guys have any un-fun hosts at Serotalk? 🙂

    Jenine Stanley

    Wrapping Up

    Why your iOS device may be a better cable box than the Apple TV

    Apple Store employees switching from iPod touch to iPhone 5s for EasyPay POS system

    My Life Without A Smartphone

    Contacting the Team

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:

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    Apr 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 28: Turn Right On “A” Street

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    Welcome to another packed episode of Triple-click Home. Join JJ, Ana and Steve as they discuss all things Apple. Then, Jamie Pauls visits with David Ward

    about Braille Sonar Pro, an indispensable app for referencing Braille contractions.

    Because David is awesome and he thinks our Triple-click listeners are too, he has dropped the price of the app in half for a limited time, so go grab it now.

    Stories discussed in this episode include:

    In the News

    [What’s New and Changed for Blind and Low Vision Users in iOS 7.1](http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple/whats-new-and-changed-blind-and-low-vision-users-ios-

    71)

    Apple Ordering 90 Million iPhone 6 to Meet Huge Demand (Report)

    [Apple reportedly working on expanding Siri partnerships, iWatch support](http://www.imore.com/apple-reportedly-working-expanding-siri-partnerships-iwatch-

    support)

    Is an Apple Credit Card the Next Big Move?

    New Beacons Installed at Petco Park

    How SXSW plans to use iBeacons to improve the attendee experience

    [SXSW First Look: Store Shelves That Talk To Your Phone](http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/03/09/sxsw-first-look-store-shelves-that-talk-to-

    your-phone/)

    [Class action suit claims Apple Store POS system discriminates against visually impaired](http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/05/class-action-suit-

    claims-apple-store-pos-system-discriminates-against-visually-impaired)

    [Running Windows under VMWare Fusion: Remapping your Keyboard to Create an Insert Key](http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-apps/running-windows-under-vmware-

    fusion-remapping-your-keyboard-create-insert-key)

    Ask iMore: How the #@$& do you find anything with App Store search?

    How to easily back up and restore your Mac with Time Machine on OS X Mavericks

    Make use of the iCloud keychain

    [Apple TV remote: 7 amazing shortcuts you need to know!](http://www.imore.com/top-shortcuts-you-need-know-when-using-your-apple-tv-remote?

    utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

    Parcel – Delivery tracking By Ivan Pavlov

    [Jawbone’s ‘Up Coffee’ app tracks your caffeine intake, estimates when you’ll finally be able to sleep](http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/06/jawbone-up-

    coffee-app/?a_dgi=aolshare_twitter)

    Mailbag

    Hi Guys!

    Episode 27 was a pleasure to listen to, as usual.
    I would like to comment on a few points from the episode

    • Subsidized phones are available in other countries outside the US. As buddy said, they are available in the UK. They are also available in Germany, Ireland

    and other countries. My sister in Germany started a new bill contract recently: 30 euros per month = 40 dollars, for 200 minutes and texts to any mobile

    network and landlines, 300 MB of data and the iPhone 5C for the equivalent of 1.35 Dollars.
    My contract here in Ireland costs me the equivalent of 55 dollars per month, 350 flexible units, i.e. 350 minutes or 700 text messages to any network,

    unlimited calls and messages to my own network, 2 Terabytes – yes, I said Terabytes, of data and the iPhone 5S for the equivalent of 199 Dollars.
    Not bad at all!
    One point which really surprised me in the episode was the comment about paying for incoming calls. Do you have to pay for incoming calls in the USA? The

    only time I have had to pay for incoming calls was when I was abroad with a previous SIM card.

    • Reading Marco’s article about switching back to Windows and the reactions to it are very interesting from a social perspective. There are the Windows users

    who say: Ha, I knew it all along! Then there are the Mac users who say: don’t he dare point out imperfections in Macs! And then there are the Mac users who

    say: I know what he means, but now I’m stuck with this thing.
    I agree with Marco in his comment about the way Apple deals with reports and requests. Most replies I have got from Accessibility@Apple.com read something

    like: “thank you for your interest. We will pass it on to the appropriate people, but we don’t know when and whether this will be fixed.” I have got some

    very helpful personal emails but the majority read like templates. This, however, is no Apple speciality. I heard from a number of beta testers that Apple

    knew about VoiceOver’s “Page-2 Issue” at a very early beta stage. It still has not been fixed, and this is frustrating.
    One point in Marco’s article with which I do not agree at all is the criticism of the object interaction. One person said in the comment section that they

    can’t use their Mac one-handed. I do not understand this. I work with quickNavigation and the TrackPad and can operate my MacBook Air quite well while

    holding a cup of coffee in my left hand. This comment brought back memories of several installations using JAWS – routing teh JAWS cursor to the PC cursor

    which does not move any further, then looking for my “Next” button with the JAWS cursor, then route the PC cursor to the JAWS cursor and activate the item.

    And how many fingers on how many hands does it take to turn on the virtual cursor on a webpage? NVDA, too, requires at least two fingers on at least two

    hands to navigate.
    I think that the whole interaction argument is rubbish. I like interaction and think that I am much quicker than I am in Windows. However, this is all a

    matter of taste.
    I knew when I bought my Mac one year ago that I would need my Windows laptop for some tasks. Most of those tasks have now been moved to the Mac. I am a

    researcher in phonetics and phonology and use symbols of the phonetic alphabet and am happy that voiceOver does not only read them but that I can access them

    so easily on the standard keyboard. Great job, Apple!

    Looking forward to your next episode! All the best and greetings from Ireland.

    Markus

    Hi Guys,

    You talked about Spotify in this episode and that it is possible to listen to individual songs on the iPad but not on the iPhone. this is not a bug but is

    advertized by spotify. I have heard in one of their ads “If you want to listen to individual songs, you can do this on your iPad.” or something like that.

    ‘JustSaying

    all the best. Markus

    From Jenine Stanley

    Hmmm, I’m thinking this long winter has gotten to all of us. Listening to the February TCH, or Episode 27, whichever you choose to refer to it, you all

    sounded just a tad worked up about life.

    Granted, I pride myself in being just as cynical and jaded as you all, I have to say that you took it just a bit too far this time.

    What Jenine? You, the Serotalk Fan Girl, saying we took it a bit too far? Whatever could you mean?

    Well, in the discussion of the article about switching back to Windows, the whole issue of interaction under Mac’s Voice Over went to the dark side. You doth

    protest too much.

    My biggest adjustment when moving from Windows to Mac was the whole idea of interaction. I get the whole moving from a larger to a smaller thing but we move

    from larger to smaller in IOS and don’t have the need to take this extra step. It’s just that too, an extra step. What would Mac VO look like if it operated

    like VO does in IOS? I think that’s what many of us new to Mac but coming from IOS on our phones are thinking and becoming frustrated with.

    The way you all were ranting though made it sound like we were unworthy for even thinking this way. It really would have turned me off on asking for help had

    I not known that you guys are among some of the most helpful people out there when it comes to the switch. There was way too much justification of the method

    for me and not enough empathy about yes, this is different and there may be some questions at first if you come from IOS world to Mac as many of us are

    doing.

    I’ve made the change over to Mac and am quite happy not to have my screen reader stopping at least twice a day in the middle of something and all the other

    nice things that come with Mac. Do I like interaction? Truth? I don’t mind it now but do wish I could just explore the entire screen at once without having

    to go in and out of interactions. that said, I do it because it’s there and things work but does that have to be the perfect way to do things?

    Oh and I totally agree with you about the whole “God Bless you” thing and all interactions, human ones that is, being about the dog.

    My answer to these people is usually to reflect back their attitude of benevelance by just saying “You too!” when being blessed.

    Oh, all sorts of snark come to mind but in most cases, unless truly pushed, I’ll try to be nice. I have a dear friend who is an atheist. This kind of thing

    just sends her around the bend because she feels she can’t ever argue and say that she is offended by being blessed but can’t say that because it will only

    open up another avenue for evangelizing.

    Well, let’s hope March brings us some interesting Apple news that doesn’t involve brow beating each other. 🙂 Keep up the good work.
    Jenine Stanley

    Wrapping Up

    [Apple’s ‘attack detection mode’ would protect iPhone owners in emergency situations](http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/06/apples-attack-detection-

    mode-protects-iphone-owners-in-emergency-situations)

    [2-year-old boy saves mom using FaceTime app](http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/03/10/2-year-old-boy-saves-mom-using-facetime-app/?

    utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fhealth+%28Internal+-+Health+-+Text%29)

    Contacting the Team

    We’ve had our say, now its your turn. Drop us a line at resources@serotalk.com or send us a tweet at [our official Twitter

    page.](https://twitter.com/tripleclickhome)

    You can also follow our hosts by visiting

    Ana’s Accessible Android blog or

    JJ at AndroidAccess.net.

    Finally, Check out Steve’s Twitter feed.

    Thanks for listening!

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  • 29
    Mar 14

    Wall to Wall CSUN Coverage On SPN

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    With so much SPN coverage from this year’s CSUN convention, the Triple-click Home team took a break from the podcast just to soak it all in. Below is a list of the specials we released. In addition to our work, check out the interviews available from Blind Bargains.

    CSUN Pre Show Interview Special

    SPN CSUN Special: Redefining Magnification

    SPN CSUN Special: Maximizing Potential With Mainstream And Assistive Technologies

    SPN CSUN HIMS Special: NoteTaker or iPad, or is it the wrong question?

    CSUN Special 1

    CSUN Special 2

    CSUN Special 3

    CSUN Special 4

    Contacting the Team

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them: Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter Follow John Panarese on Twitter Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter Thanks for listening!

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  • 26
    Feb 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 27: Will You Be My Family?

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    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 27: Will You Be My Family?

    This month, guest host Allison Hartley joins the Triple-click Home team to discuss the top news stories of the week. In addition to the news, Alena Roberts talks with Tom Green of Somethin’ Else, makers of Papa Sangre, Papa Sangre II and The Nightjar. As always, we include your feedback in the show.

    Top of the News

    The future of the Mac: What will the next 30 years bring us?

    Why Apple ‘computers’ outselling Microsoft may not be fair, but is incredibly important

    The real reason Macs never got in the enterprise

    Apple maintains enterprise dominance; Windows Phone lags

    Report: New content could arrive with new Apple TV “by Christmas”

    The iWatch Will Not Be An iPhone On Your Wrist

    Apple Reportedly Hires Sleep Expert For iWatch Team

    Apple pledges $100 million in iPads, computers and other tools toward Obama’s ConnectED education program

    Apple’s iPad Air Has The Longest Lasting Battery Among Current Tablets

    News in iOS

    7 New iOS 7.1 Details

    5 problems a 5-inch iPhone solves for Apple

    Verizon confirms ‘More Everything,’ brings price cuts, more data, global texting

    Patrick Perdue demos Zoom IQ5 mid/side stereo microphone for iOS devices

    Check out BackBlaze, a #VoiceOver accessible cloud backup solution.

    An Overview of Five iOS Text Editors

    Switching back to Windows

    Spotlight: Games

    Play a Free iOS Game and Help with University Research

    ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator: Game Was Pulled Because It Became an ‘Addictive Product’

    mailbag

    From Jenine Stanley:

    So, I’m excited about the usability of the MicroWave audio editor for the Mac. I am stuck though on a couple concepts that don’t seem to be covered by the very well done manual. Where might I go to find more info about using this audio editor with Voice Over?

    I’m particularly interested in the keyboard commands for selecting text. Everything else looks dandy but that one has me stumped.

    Another from Jenine:

    Loved the last show, as always but was thinking as I transition to the Mac, that it might be good to have a segment of your show that looks at the practical side of using Apple products. Here’s how it might go.

    Let’s say we choose a task, like creating, editing and reading documents. Then we talk about the programs available, which we use and why, and how they might differ for someone coming from the Windows environment. I know you guys sometimes do this anyway but a more structured look might be helpful.

    I, for example, am about to take on Pages. I can open a document to read or edit and see the places for headers, footers and body text but then can’t seem to get much further. I know there’s something I’m missing but just don’t know what it is.

    Alena does a great job of pointing out things like Text Edit and the 1-page issue which is hugely helpful. Let’s have more of that.

    I’m just glad I can finally understand what you all and David Woodbridge are talking about when it comes to Mac OS stuff now. I usually tuned out if it wasn’t IOS.

    Keep up the good work.

    Finally from Jenine:

    I’m testing out a borrowed Macbook Pro and am down to only two major elements keeping me from the switch. I have to test it with my printer, but I see no issues there.

    The Macbook is dated 2012 and is running Mavrix latest version.

    I currently scan documents using Acrobat Pro for my scanning needs on my Windows7 desktop. Besides Docuscan Plus, are there other programs that work with the Mac?

    References I saw on Applevis were no longer available in the app store.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    From Chris Nusbaum:

    Hello to the Triple Click Home Team,

    As always I very much enjoyed Episode 26 of the podcast. There was a lot of good information and commentary provided and the interview with Shannon Reese was enlightening. You and the whole gang at SPN provide a wonderful service to the blind community and I am very appreciative of it.

    I would like to make a few comments and ask a question in response to some of the topics discussed in the most recent podcast. Firstly, I agree with and relate to the frustrations which Jamie and Buddy expressed about the Learning Ally app. The lack of a rewind/fast forward feature does make it inefficient and annoying; indeed, I find it makes reading my textbook take much more time than it should. If I am answering a question which requires information that is at the bottom of a page, I have to listen to everything on the page to get that information.
    If I miss what I need once, I have to listen to the entire page yet again. After Jamie suggested this workaround, I downloaded the textbook onto my Victor Reader Stream and am finding that it is much better. Now there is some news on this subject which I would like to share. I called Learning Ally tech support today for an unrelated matter, but also told them about the issues mentioned above with the iOS app. The tech support specialist told me that they had heard this from many users and were adding a 10-second rewind/fast forward feature in the next app update.
    The rep did not have a definite release date for the app update, as it is still in the testing stages. She assured me, however, that this improvement can be expected in the near future. This is definitely a sign of progress.

    Now onto my question. There was discussion during the podcast about Twitterrific and, more generally, apps which are not compatible with iOS 7. I used and enjoyed Twitterrific on my old iPhone 4S running iOS 6. However, I found that it was not working very well at all when I updated to iOS 7. It would take a long time to load and the app would often crash altogether before it even loaded, kicking me back out to the home screen. I ended up switching from Twitterrific to TweetList when I was asked to handle the live tweeting of the NFB of Maryland convention, partly because of my lack of success with Twitterrific and partly because I found TweetList to work better with multiple accounts. I realize that this was on an iPhone 4s, which did not work very well with iOS 7 anyway. However, I now have an iPhone 5C. So, have you found Twitterrific to work better on the newer iPhone models? Does it load any faster or have better responsiveness with the new iPhones as compared to the 4S? If so, perhaps I will redownload Twitterrific on my 5C and see how it works. I look forward to hearing your feedback on this. Thanks for all you do; keep up the great work.

    Blog comment from Jan Blüher:

    Hello Triple Click Home Team,

    I wondered why Alena cannot see the weather info in notification center although others can, and started a little search. It seems that the location services have to be enabled for the Weather app to make this happen: Settings; Privacy; Location Services. Maybe you try this.

    Keep on going with the podcast. It’s a very nice show. I like it.

    Blog comment from Chris McKnight:

    I share your frustration with the touch screen controls and their inaccessibility to blind people. In particular with regard to home appliances, I agree go see them in the store for yourself and many times you can find them with raised buttons on those smooth front panels, which I was able to do with my new dishwasher and clothes washer/dryer units. I had the same problem with cooking ranges, however, where controls have no tactile buttons. My solution was to give up on any that had dynamic touch screen menu controls (like KitchenAid models), but I did buy a Kenmore model with smooth touch panel controls, but no menus to deal with. The solution? My sighted girlfriend affixed those little adhesive rubber markers right next to the buttons I needed to locate to control the oven, which I can use as landmarks to find the “buttons” I need. The bumpy markers are placed next to, and not on top of, the “buttons” because they are in fact touch sensitive, not pressure sensitive, so I didn’t wan t to obstruct the buttons from detecting my fingertips. This solution has worked for me and I’m able to independently control my new oven, no problem at all.
    Great show, guys. Never miss an episode!

    From Richard Applegate

    If you want the weather summary to appear in your Notification Center, simply go into Setting/Notification Center and enable Today Summary.
    You can disable the display of the obnoxious calendar as well.

    Odds and Ends

    HuffPost Tech – Why you should put down your smartphone and talk to a stranger

    Time capsule containing Steve Jobs’ 1983 Apple mouse excavated

    Contacting the Team

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
    Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter
    Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter
    Follow John Panarese on Twitter
    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
    Thanks for listening!

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  • 23
    Jan 14

    Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

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    Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 26: The iCoffee

    Welcome to the first Triple-click Home podcast of 2014. This month, Jamie Pauls joins Alena and Buddy to discuss the Apple news stories of the past month. John was unable to be a part of the Triple-click Home team this time around, but we trust that he will join us again next month. In addition to our plentiful crop of news stories, Jamie kicks off our new spotlight segment by talking with Shannon Reese whose daughter Eilish has Down Syndrome. Jamie and Shannon discuss the use of the iPad in Eilish’s education. Apps discussed in this interview include those from The Conover Company as well as a brief discussion of the augmentative alternative communication app Proloquo2Go Of course, our podcast wouldn’t be complete without your feedback, and we include that as well. Without further ado, let’s jump right to the …

    Top of the News

    Google Buys Nest for $3.2 Billion in Cash

    CES 2014: Smart thermostat EverSense shows off ‘Aura’ iBeacons to intelligently adjust room temperature

    CES 2014: iPhone/iPad Bluetooth accessories for the home & body dominate the show

    Mac Sales Rose in 4th Quarter. Or Fell.

    Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates

    Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7

    Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World

    Apple patent details optical image stabilization for iPhone cameras

    T-Mobile’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card:’ they’ll pay your early termination fee to switch

    Yahoo announces News Digest, a new iOS app that provides only essential news stories

    A T Talk

    SeroSpectives: This Year in Tech for 2013

    SPN Goes to the UN

    Update to Sendero GPS

    Announcing the AppleVis Golden Apples of 2013

    Digit-Eyes 2.0 has a completely NEW and simplified user interface design plus NEW other New features

    Opinion

    Opinion: What “three revolutionary devices” will the iWatch be?

    Apple Knows Exactly What It’s Doing With Its iPhone Business

    2014: The year of the iPhone-controlled everything

    Mailbag

    From Beth:

    Hi, I have been researching and have found stuff about using accuators to do Braille instead of pins. Here are a few links.

    Displaying Braille for Mobile Use with the Micro-vibration of SMA Wires

    haptic posts on CNET

    First-ever Braille smartphone could hit stores this year

    The “Feel Screen”: The Pros and Cons of a Tactile Interface for the Next iPad (or iPhone?)

    Blog comment from Zivan Krisher

    During the podcast I think it was Buddy who stated that it is impossible to turn off Zoom while VoiceOver is turned on. This is not true. I’m a low vision IOS user and often use VoiceOver in combination with Zoom. When Zoom is turned on, double tapping 3 fingers becomes the Zoom toggle. and triple tapping 3 fingers becomes the VoiceOver toggle.

    Wrapping Up

    This Pressure-Sensitive Case May Change How You Use Your iPhone

    The strange, shady world of $1,000 iOS apps

    The 12 Apps You Should Delete from Your Phone in 2014

    Contacting the Team

    The Triple-click Home team would love to hear from you. Here is how you can get in touch with them:
    Follow Alena Roberts on Twitter
    Follow Buddy Brannan on Twitter
    Follow John Panarese on Twitter
    Follow Triple-click Home on Twitter
    Thanks for listening!

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