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93: The Last Show Jun 26, 2024

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Subtitle: Picking your accessibility battles

Today, we offer an all-star panel of podcasters and tech pundits with a lot to say about the first 15 years of mobile accessibility from Apple. To my delight, the show veered hard into present and future topics. Also, Parallel says farewell.

Guest Starring:

Steve Sawczyn, Mikah Sargent, Jonathan Mosen, David Woodbridge, and Allison Sheridan

Links and Show Notes:

36 Seconds That Changed Everything – How the iPhone Learned to Talk

Sonos has broken accessibility for its blind users. Now they must repair the app and repair trust – Mosen At Large

AppleVis

Open Radar

92: Dystopian Skynet Future – Sometime Next Year May 29, 2024

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Subtitle: Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024

What are the takeaways from Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD 2024? We highlight accessibility announcements from Apple and BeMyEyes.

Guest Starring:

Robin Christopherson

Links and Show Notes:

36 Seconds That Changed Everything: How the iPhone Learned to Talk

Shelly's documentary about the history of iOS accessibility

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Apple Accessibility Preview at Six Colors

Apple Accessibility Preview press release

Be My Eyes

91: I'm VR Curious Mar 19, 2024

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Zoe Knox bought a Vision Pro when they first became available, anticipating that Apple's headset would provide accessibility features. How those features might work with Zoe's low vision? That was a big unknown.

Guest Starring:

Zoe Knox

Links and Show Notes:

Vision Accessibility on Apple's Vision Pro

Create accessible spatial experiences - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer

Blackbox for Vision on the App Store

90: I Want to Pinch and Zoom the World Feb 13, 2024

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Subtitle: Hands-On with Apple Vision Pro Accessibility

Apple's Vision Pro headset offers a number of accessibility features. But how well do they serve those with disabilities, and what should we expect from future versions of the product? Now we have some answers.

Guest Starring:

Robin Christopherson

89: Low Vision Pro Jan 09, 2024

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I spoke with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece for their show, Double Tap. They wanted my thoughts on how Apple's Vision Pro might land with users who have low vision. Steven kindly gave me permission to republish that conversation here.

Guest Starring:

Shaun Preece and Steven Scott

Links and Show Notes:

Double Tap – It's a tech show. Honest.

88: How Hard Could XCode Be? Nov 22, 2023

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How a young entrepreneur turned her own technology need into an app designed for other people with low-vision.

Guest Starring:

Rebecca Rosenberg

Links and Show Notes:

ReBokeh app

LowVision

87: A Fish On Your Washing Machine Oct 10, 2023

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What's the significance of Apple's iPhone 15 lineup, from an accessibility point of view?

Guest Starring:

Steven Scott

Links and Show Notes:

Access Tech Live - YouTube

Introducing: Be My AI

Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad - The Verge

FineWoven hot take: It’s fine? – Six Colors

Modern Leather Cases | NOMAD®

86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind Sep 13, 2023

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Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a history of blindness, and blindness tech, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers.

Guest Starring:

Andrew Leland

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85: AI Will Not Fix Accessibility Jul 20, 2023

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Even before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream, companies touted it as a way to make web sites accessible – a magic bullet that meant web devs could skip the accessibility checks normally done by humans. But it doesn't work like that.

Guest Starring:

Adrian Roselli

Links and Show Notes:

No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility — Adrian Roselli

#AudioEye Is Suing Me — Adrian Roselli

#UserWay Will Get You Sued — Adrian Roselli

84: Now that We've Had Some Time to Process... Jun 20, 2023

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My colleagues from the Maccessibility Roundtable join me for a conversation about Apple's Vision Pro and accessibility. We still don't know a lot, but be know more than we did an hour after the WWDC keynote.