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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 34: Nobody Likes the Ribbon

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

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 30: The Secret Slide

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

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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

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Listen to Triple-click Home episode 24: Luxury Versus Necessity

Help us turn two in this episode of the podcast as the Triple-click Home team discusses all things Mac and iOS includeing Mavericks, iWork and iOS 7. In addition to the news and possibly a rant or two, Jamie Pauls visits with Dmitriy Konopatskiy about the recent changes to the extremely popular image recognition app TapTapSee and what we can expect in future updates to the product. Here is a direct link to TapTapSee in the app store.

Top of the News

Apple Launches OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 For Registered Developers

Apple promises to bring back missing iWork for Mac features in six months

All The Changes In iOS 7.1 Beta You’ll Actually Notice

Sendero GPS LookAround for iOS gets a nice update and goes free:

A review of five iOS navigation apps

Voice Dream Reader, Truly a Dream App

Papa Sangre II on the App Store on iTunes

Blind Bargains: Review: Bring On the Horror With Papa Sangre 2

TapTapSee becomes a paid service

Apple and Samsung together account for… 109% of industry profits

Apple still tops in tablets, despite dwindling market share

Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won

Pandora: iTunes Radio? Pshaw. We’re doing just fine.

iPad Air beats the iPad 4 by 80 percent in benchmark tests

iPad Air topped by Kindle Fire HDX in display quality test

Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

Surprise! Apple’s now selling the iPad Mini with Retina display online

The Retina iPad Mini teardown reveals cross between iPad Air & iPhone 5s

Apple’s New Fingerprint Scanner Is An Epic Fail For Some

Mailbag

Dear Triple-click Home Team,

I am a vision impaired university student and would like to share my experience with using Windows on my MacBook Pro. For the most part Windows 7 runs the best I’ve ever seen it run on any computer, probably because it’s running on a Mac! I use both Boot Camp and VMWare Fusion 4 when working in the Windows environment when I have to. I only need to run Windows in the first place because of my Transformer, long/short distance viewer.

One thing I would like to note about running Windows on a Mac is that a Mac battery, 7 hours, will be cut down to a Windows battery, 2-3 hours when running Windows on a Mac laptop. Of course one wouldn’t have to worry about battery life reduction when running Windows on a desktop Mac, but because I am a student, I need to be mobile.

One last thing I would like to note is that even when running Windows directly via Boot Camp, my MacBook Pro really heats up more than it would ever when using the Mac side of the computer – probably due to the intense graphics processing and operating system structure. Also, I noticed a few times last year that I got the Blue Screen of Death when directly running Windows. So i have to be careful not to put it to sleep to often when in the Windows environment, especially when I’m just seconds away from needing to use it in class.

Overall, in my opinion, I believe Apple handles the Windows environment really well and just to know when one wants to use the Windows environment, their going to get a Windows environment.

I would greatly appreciate it, and even more important, I believe a brief summary of this email would be good to include in the next Triple-click Home podcast for others to take note of.

From Michael

Michael’s World
Visually Impaired Student
www.mts.net/~wefour

Wrapping Up

Apple will now pay you for a water-damaged iPhone or iPad

The craziest things you can plug into your iPhone’s audio jack

Here’s What Happened When 17 Ordinary People Met Steve Jobs

Audioboo / 2013 DJ Marathon – The Karen Jacobsen Interview In Full

Sprint and Best Buy Team Up to Give Students a Free Phone Line for a Year!

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 23: Earth to iTunes

Apple gave us so much to talk about this month that it was hard to know where to start. That said, the Triple-click Home team along with special guest Justin Romack gave it their best shot. There is one other very special guest who appears briefly in this podcast. We’ll give you a hint—think That Android Show and it isn’t Joe Steinkamp. Finally, Alena Roberts visits with Alex McMillan, who was the original lead developer of the very popular iOS game Zombies, Run!

Stories covered in this episode include:

From iPad Air to Mac Pro: everything you need to know about Apple’s fall event

Flybridge

About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9

My Review of the iPhone 5S | MacForTheBlind

Apple Launches iPhone Tips and Tricks Guides

Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome.

iOS 7 nabs more than 50 percent of Apple users in first week

What’s New in iOS 7?

A low vision user’s view of iOS 7

Apple releases iOS 7.0.3: iCloud Keychain, iMessage fixes, sensor fixes, Touch ID improvements

Ahrendts Hire Emphasizes Apple’s Focus on High End

Gold iPhone 5s Sells for $10K on eBay

iPhone Map Leads To The Tarmac At Fairbanks Airport

Martha Stewart Angers Apple With Broken iPad Tweets

Meet the woman behind the voice of Siri

After 30 years, lost ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule’ finally recovered

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 22: We’re S People

What should you do while you’re waiting for your i-device to update to iOS 7? Should you bite your fingernails? Repeatedly swipe your phone in hopes that Voiceover will give you some sort of a progress indicator? Why not listen to the latest episode of the Triple-click Home podcast? This month, Alena, Buddy, John, Derek and Jamie all weigh in with their thoughts on the iPhone 5c and 5s as well as iOS 7. Also, Alena Roberts interviews Jonathan Mosen about his new book, iOS 7 Without the Eye. Jonathan and Alena don’t just talk about the book, though. They discuss the state of accessibility in all of Apple’s products and even talk a bit about Android. Yes, you read that right–a discussion of Android on an episode of Triple-click Home. So sit back, don’t touch your i-device while it’s updating, and enjoy the podcast.

The music heard in Alena’s interview was provided courtesy of Andre Louis. Be sure to visit his Web site and purchase his music.

Apple’s overhauled iOS 7 is coming September 18 to an iDevice near you

New Default Ringtones for iOS 7

Apple announces the multicolor iPhone 5C, $99 for 16GB

Apple announces iPhone 5S: What you need to know

iPhone 5S sports new M7 processor to handle motion apps

Apple iPhone 5S camera promises bigger pixels, slow-mo, better image processing

iPhone 5S comes with Touch ID fingerprint scanner

Apple TV Software Update to Arrive Alongside iOS 7 on September 18

Apple TV update adds channels for Vevo, Disney, Weather & Smithsonian

Apple launches iTunes Radio on September 18

Apple’s iWork suite (plus iMovie and iPhoto) free with new iOS devices

For archives of Apple’s live presentations, visit Apple’s Events page

You must buy a new iPhone to use Apple’s now-confirmed trade-in program

Walmart will credit you up to $300 for your old smartphone

PayPal Beacon: Finally an Easier Way to Pay in Stores Than Swiping a Credit Card

Apple patent turns the iPhone into an intelligent universal media, ‘smart home’ remote control

Mailbag

This month, Laura writes us to say:

Hello, musicians:
Has anybody figured out how to use the iPad version of Garage Band with Voice Over?
I would really like to learn.
Thanks.
Laura Mulraney

The team has some great answers to this question so be sure to listen.

Regarding last month’s exploding phone article, regular contributor Jenine Stanley writes:

Funny that you should mention this book. As I download it to read, I asked my dear spouse if I’d see his name in it.

He worked for AT&T for over 35 years and was on the team that chased down some of the phone freaks during their heyday.

He was also on a team of inside hackers who got to try to break things for a living within The Phone Company.

He tells me that the recent revelations regarding NSA are nothing new at all. And that’s all he can tell me as he’s still under certain orders never to talk about what his team did.

He will tell you though that his time on those projects was a geek’s dream.

Jenine Stanley

Triple-click Home Team App Picks

Here is a link to the Apple II e emulator discussed on the podcast

New Podcast: Codename Cygnus for iOS: Play the Hero in your own Secret Agent Drama

Audioboo / Here’s an all too common sound, hopefully redone in a cool way: Tritone

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Listen to Triple-Click Home Episode 21: Finger Gymnastics

Welcome to the 21st episode of our podcast. We celebrate our 21st birthday with champagne, chocolate, and your feedback. Every party needs cake, and cake needs icing. The icing on our cake this month is an interview with Harri Pasanen, developer of MBraille, the extremely popular Braille keyboard entry app for iOS. Along with our partying, we actually discuss the most interesting news stories of the past month. Grab your favorite beverage, pull up a comfortable chair and let’s get started!

Apple’s cheaper and not so cheap iPhone explained

Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense

Report: iOS 7 may come to iPhones and iPod touches first, iPads later

7 Facts About The iPhone You Probably Didn’t Know Were True

Your iPhone uses more energy than a refrigerator

Does an iPhone really burn more coal than a refrigerator?

Top 5 secret Siri tips: How to add, find, delete, and do everything faster!

Apple’s Mac sales down in July, to slide 5 percent this quarter

Apple Retail Stores making a play to sell Macs to Windows based business customers

Seemingly benign “Jekyll” app passes Apple review, then becomes “evil”

Apple bans app that wants you to throw your phone in the air

Apple updates App Store review guidelines

Announcing the Newest Inductees into the AppleVis iOS App Hall of Fame

Announcing the release to the Apple Store of the first update to The Seeing Eye GPS™ app for the iPhone, version 1.1.

Downcast for OS X: Download, Play and Synchronize your Favorite Podcasts

Apple shares soar after billionaire investor Carl Icahn calls company ‘extremely undervalued’

Apple’s Tim Cook Talking To Investors…

Apple Acquires Video Discovery Service Matcha.tv

Judge says she won’t suspend ruling in Apple e-books case

Apple e-book price-fixing damages trial set for next May

Steve Jobs movie slammed by critics — and Woz

Steve Jobs: Genius, or Just Obsessive?

Recommended Apps

This month, the Triple-click Home Team mentions apps they are still enjoying from last month. Feel free to visit our previous show notes for those recommendations. One new app mentioned by Alena Roberts is the game Wizard’s Choice.

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 20: A Scary Space Odyssey

Since Buddy Brannan was unable to join us for this month’s episode of Triple-click Home, Jamie Pauls joins Alena Roberts and John Panarese to discuss the top news stories of the month. The team has some app recommendations to share along the way, and Alena rounds out the show with an interview with the developer of the Voice Dream app for reading books and many other types of documents on your iOS device.

Apple Took Three Days to Tell Developers About a Site Hack

Researcher claims he told Apple of Developer Center vulnerability but didn’t maliciously steal data

iOS 7 preview: Siri gets a new look, access to settings, more services, still no predictive results

Nobody Has Tried The Real iOS 7

With Its Acquisition Of Locationary, Apple Zeros In On Maps, Big Data And Competing With Google

With all of our talk of travel, John recommends All Access: Talking Menus.

Apple acquires navigation service Hopstop

HopStop for Windows Phone Scrapped Following Apple Deal

States Combat Cell Phone Use On The Road But Deaths Persist

How Will Apple Handle Verizon’s iPhone Shortfall?

Comparing T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon’s Upgrade Plans

Here’s all the evidence that Apple is making an actual TV—and the remote will likely be your hand

iPad mini 2 with Retina display won’t be released this year?

Recharging iPhone blamed for another serious shock in China

You Won’t Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face

Apple should lead the move to DRM-free ebooks

How to request a refund for an iTunes or App Store purchase

App Updates: Fleksy Version 1.8 links favorites with contacts, improves responsiveness and accuracy, and adds themes There is also a new update to MBraile

Seeing Eye GPS: a Turn-by-Turn GPS application for the iPhone Developed Specifically for the Blind

Listen to Joe Steinkamp’s interview with the developers of the iOS game Solara on SeroTalk Podcast 162

Alena has been playing with the crossword game Word Shuffle.

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 19: A Stickler for Sequence

This month, Joshua Loya joins the Triple-click Home team to talk about all things related to Apples WWDC Keynote. Stories discussed in this podcast include:

What Apple revealed at WWDC 2013

Apple’s WWDC 2013 keynote video now live

WWDC 2013, A Lot of Announcements | MacForTheBlind

David Woodbridge Technology Blog: Talking Tech for June 11 – Apple WWDC 2013 Keynote – my notes

Which Macs, iPads and iPhones will get Apple’s new goodies?

Apple posts OS X Mavericks preview page

iOS 7 tells Apple users to ‘get excited’ again, says analyst

Apple’s new products won’t cheer investors, says analyst

Hands-on with the new Apple iOS 7

Fleksy keyboard page seems to indicate that Apple will allow third party software keyboards in iOS 7?

iOS App Store will update apps automatically, offer location and age categories

Passbook for iOS 7 to support scanning QR codes

The iPhone finally gets call-blocking in iOS 7

Lawmakers are cautiously optimistic about iOS 7’s ‘Activation Lock’ feature

Apple announces ad based iTunes Radio, ad free for iTunes Match subscribers

Apple’s latest creation is a woman named Mieko Haire

For Apple, an inflection point

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Listen to Triple-click Home Episode 18: Could You Try That in Less Words?
Welcome to another jam-packed episode of Triple-click Home. This month, John Panarese takes the wheel and is joined by Alena Roberts and Buddy Brannan. Along with a discussion of the current crop of news stories, Jamie Pauls talks with Brian Kevelighan about the Aftershokz Bluez bluetooth bone conduction headphones. We also feature a listener email, so stick around and enjoy the show!

Top of the News

Apple reveals details of 50 billionth App Store download

Apple faces questions over alleged tax evasion

A popular Office for Mac version reaches the end of the support line

Microsoft improves Skype on the Mac

Apple tightens App Store rules, now rejecting more app discovery services

iMacs get new cheaper, smaller flash storage options

Hardware Review

This month, Brian Kevelighan reviews the Aftershokz Bluez Bluetooth bone conduction headphones. He isn’t the only one who is in love with them. The Triple-click Home team share their opinion of these headphones as well.

iOS News

Google announces Hangouts messaging service coming to iOS, Android, and desktop today

T-Mobile: No iPhone discount lasts forever

Siri update prompts users to be brief

Low-cost iPhone rumor reignited by Apple supplier’s hiring spree

Apple Having Trouble Signing New Carriers Because of iPhone Subsidy and Minimum Purchase Requirements

Mailbag

Hi folks,
Thanks again for another very informative & witty podcast.
You all could form the Blind Tech Comedy club.
I have to tell you of my mac transition.
My Mother passed away 2 years ago, June 30. I wanted a diversion & a new computer. I got tired of all of the SMA upgrades. Therefore, it left me with the concept of learning to use the Mac OS. NOt only was I learning a new OS, I was learning a new screen reader. Originally, I paid the $99 for the one on one instruction through the apple store. I found the noise & lack of knowledge by the in store trainers discouraging until I met a lady who introduced me to macvisionaries. Between macvisionaries & Iblink radio, I have gotten more information than I could have ever paid for.
As you were talking about your first experience with a screen reader, I have to relay my own experience. I started with DOS 5.0 & found a shareware program called BPop. It was not a fully functional screen magnifier. It would allow me to engage it after I had typed something in order to proofread it. If I had made a mistake, I had to count spaces & lines in order to correct it.
Living in Florida at the time, I was in a close proximity to what was then Henter Joyce in St. Petersburg Florida. I actually met Ted Henter. I found within my budget through considerable cutbacks at the time the $295 to purchase Magic 1.27. It magnified my DOS screen & brought Windows 3.1 in 2x mode. I also received training through the state of Florida on the Vert screen reader along with word perfect 5.1.
Fast forwarding to today, I still have my windows computer yet pull out my mac for everything.
I am by no means an expert, yet am proficient enough to do what I need to do & am very satisfied with my decision to learn the Mac OS.
Like Jamie, I too, am a manual reader. I try to absorb what my given appliance or piece of electronics will do like a sponge. All of the resources you listed are very much appreciated. Your work does not go for naught. I also have a suggestion. Is it possible to take topics from the mac visionaries list with the most responses & expound on the subject matter? Some of them are very lengthy, yet very informational. I don’t read everything primarily, because I don’t have the time to read email all day. However, I find their listers very helpful & interactive.
The applevis site is also a good resource, however, I find some on that site who whine if something isn’t handed to them. Thank you also for your interview with the gentleman dealing with the Earl app. I am not necessarily one who believes everything needs to be free, however, I am tentative to subscribe to their service without knowing how viable they will be. I see their monthly price point to be very affordable, yet my Kansas City paper is not part of their content due to their web subscription policy. I do use newsline & am glad to see a for profit company give them direct competition while making it safe for those who spend a lot of time commuting.
It sounds as if they are following the model of Flexy, using the blind community as a means to test their app & service, yet eventually marketing to everyone.
We have come an extremely long ways from the specialized equipment costing several thousand dollars to main stream technology accessible to everyone.
Thank all of you for your tireless efforts & your dedication to making the world we live in technologically easier to live with.
Sincerely,

Pamela J Francis

Wrapping Up

Feature Writer Alena Roberts – Kindle Books are Finally Made Accessible to People with Print Disabilities

Extensive run through of the now accessible iOS Kindle app with VoiceOver

iOS App Voice Dream Reader now half price at $4.99 for limited time.

Prizmo – Scanning, OCR, and Speech

Looktel Money Reader Gains New Currencies

Bill Gates: Steve Jobs was better at design than I was

Contacting the Team

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