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Episode 116 - Get To Know Flight For Sight and Their $10,000 Grant Give Away To Travel The World Mar 19, 2023

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome Mike Walsh, Founder of Flight For Sight to the show.

We kick things off discussing Mike's back story being diagnosed with Usher's Syndrome in his twenties, and how Ushers began to change his life in his thirties. The three of us then compare notes about when we put the car keys down for the last time.

We then dive in to a topic we never ever thought we would discuss on That Real Blind Tech Show, professional mascots, as Mike was a professional mascot for ten years. We get the low down on the San Diego Chicken and Philly Fanatic, and Ed outs himself about a high school job he had.

Mike then tells us about traveling the world with low vision in 2014, and how his experiences led to him founding Flight For Sight. A couple of his highlights include traveling to Ethiopia and attending South by Southwest not in Ethiopia.

Mike then hits Brian up with a question, what is preventing Brian from traveling these days.

We then dive in to what Flight For Sight is all about and start discussing the current $10,000 grant give aways they are running for blind and visually impaired people to travel all over the world. Make sure to visit their website. We discuss the application process and how the grant winners will be selected.

Want to apply for the grant, but having trouble getting started with your own travel idea, why not visit Flight For Sight's idea page.

Michael then informs us about who is eligible to apply for the grants, and what requirements are needed to prove that you are eligible. We then find out how the grant winners will be selected.

The deadline to get your application in for a Flight For Sight $10,000 travel grant is May 1, 2023, so get cracking on your applications!

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Episode 115 - Axe-Con 2023 Is Here, Get To Know Deque Systems Justin Yarbrough Mar 13, 2023

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian and Ed welcome in Justin Yarbrough from Deque Systems. Justin will be presenting at this year's all virtual Axe-Con taking place on March 15 and 16th. You can register to attend the conference here.

We kick the interview off learning a little bit about Justin's backstory. Justin then explains to us what he does at Deque Systems as an Accessibility Consultant.

Justin tells us a little about his presentation at this year's Axe-Con. His presentation will be on the second day of the all virtual conference on March 16th and will be about working in Digital Accessibility with a disability.

Justin explains to us what he enjoys about working in digital accessibility, and walks us a little through Deque's testing philosophy.

We then get Justin's advice for anyone looking to get in to the field of Digital Accessibility, and learn about Deque University.

Next we dive into Justin's role as an advocate for the blind, as Justin has written a few articles about the on board flight entertainment systems and accessibility issues specifically focused on United Airlines.

We discuss the current state of web accessibility and what is wrong with it. We get Justin's thoughts on what you should do if you come across a website or app with accessibility issues.

Justin then tells us about his go to tech products.

Make sure to tune in to Axe-Con on Thursday, March 16th to hear Justin's presentation, and you can keep up with Justin on Twitter at @FatElvis04 and on his website.

Episode 114 - Ai, You Just Wait To See What I Can Make You Say Mar 05, 2023

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It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show as Allison, Brian, and Jeanine are together to discuss the latest tech and AI headlines.

We kick the show off discussing why in the world you would want to use a physical pass key. Then move on to discuss the recently released Victor Reader Stream 3.

Is Tick Tock really a threat to the United States national security?

Starting later this month Ring Alarm will require a subscription for basic features users have been getting for free for years.

Are you interested in a brand new Twitter?

And you are not going to believe what Apple is rumored to be doing with USBc.

And it's the hottest thing since Clubhouse, but Chat GPT is all the rage these days, but will these AI bots be the end of modern civilization as we know it? And we are sure they are not the first, but Cnet has begun mass layoffs after it leaked that their writers got stupid and lazy and used Chat GPT to write their articles. And it's not just the Journalism world that has been affected by Chat GPT, as the Literary world is now on high alert to ai written stories.

And if you think Chat GPT is terrifying, they ain't got nothing on what Eleven Lab Synthesized Voices can become. So what we're basically saying is we're all screwed!

Open AI is now making Chat GPT available to third parties. Oh boy get ready for the ride.

Microsoft Windows 11 Preview Editions have introduced new ai features to Bing and Edge, and the next Windows 11 update will come with a bunch of new features for iOS. Phone Link if accessible could be the most exciting feature to come to Windows in years.

We then take a little departure from discussing tech to discuss a few things that we each individually have difficulty with because of our blindness.

And it's more of Watcha Ya Streaming, Watcha Reading.

To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005. Additionally, make sure to check out our website where you can listen to all of our past episode.

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