Allison interviews Freek van Welsenis from Hable about their smartphone assistant designed for people who are blind or visually impaired. The Hable device pairs with your smartphone and is about the size of a thick smartphone. Hable has six buttons laid out in a braille 3×2 format as well as two function buttons on either […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: American Thermoform
Allison interviews Robert Jaquiss from American Thermoform about a few of their products designed for the blind or visually impaired. The Swell Form Graphics Machine allows the user to create tactile maps, diagrams, text, and graphics for a relatively low cost. It works by first printing the graphic and text onto special Swell Touch paper […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: RealSAM Pocket Voice-Operated Smartphone
Allison interviews Anat Nulman from RealThing AI about their voice-operated smartphone designed for people who are blind or visually impaired. The RealSAM Pocket enables the user to easily communicate by phone or text and stream content even when they can’t see what’s on the screen. RealSAM Pocket software runs on top of Android on a […]
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CSUN ATC 2022: QD Laser Assistive Eyewear
Allison interviews Samuel Presgraves from QD Laser about their assistive eyewear technology. QD Laser’s RETISSA Medical technology uses laser retinal scanning to assist patients with low visual acuity caused by irregular astigmatism, which cannot be sufficiently corrected by conventional glasses and/or contact lenses. RETISSA achieves this by forming an image from a camera and projecting […]
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NC #880 Apple Lost Simplicity, Steve’s NosillaCastaway Shanty, Eschenbach Foldable Magnifier, Bonocle Braille Mouse, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, March 20, 2022, and this is show number 880. mp3 download Last week I told the story about how I created an Apple Shortcut with an embedded shell […]
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NC #830 Parallels Toolbox Update, Meteobridge for Weather Station, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 4, 2021, and this is show number 830. mp3 download Chit Chats Across the Ponds With a 15+ streak of never missing a weekly episode of the […]
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Wyss Institute Multi-Segment Displays at CSUN – Michael Karpelson Interview Transcript
For my last interview at CSUN’s Accessible Tech conference this year, I spoke with Michael Karpelson of the Wyss Institute. The audio for this conversation will be in NosillaCast #830 which will be published on 4 April 2021. You can learn more about the Wyss Institute and Michael’s work by going to wyss.harvard.edu/… You can […]
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Morphic at CSUN – Gregg Vanderheiden Interview Transcript
At the CSUN, assistive tech conference, I had the pleasure of talking to to Gregg Vanderheiden, who’s a Professor and Director Trace R&D Center at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He was at CSUN to talk about a project called Morphic. This is an interesting solution to a problem many […]
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CCATP #671 – Allison Sheridan on American Council of the Blind Radio
This week the tables are turned and you’ll actually hear me being interviewed. I was asked to be on the Magic Mac Show, which is on the American Council of the Blind’s streaming radio channel. Hosts Tyson Ernst, Katie Frederick and Jason Castonguay asked me on so they could learn about how I got interested […]
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Want More Engagement on Twitter? Try Adding Image Descriptions
I entitled this article “Increase Engagement on Twitter Using Image Descriptions” partly to be click baity but also because this tip will do just that. If you’d like to reach a larger audience with your tweets, then how about making your images available for those using screen readers? Maybe you think it’s not worth the […]
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