That Real Blind Tech Show

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Episode 52 - A Conversation with Justin Bishop, Go Big Or Go Home Sep 22, 2021

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Brian and Ed welcome Justin Bishop in to the That Real Blind Tech show Virtual Studio. Justin who has Retinitis Pigmentosa does not let that stand in his way as a professional Blind Skateboarder.

Justin walks us through losing his vision, and what it was like getting back on a skateboard after his vision loss. He explains to us how he uses sound as audible markers while skateboarding, and how he developed the cane technique he uses.

He tells us about some of the bums and bruises he has collected along the way, and some of his more humorous encounters.

Along with being a Blind skateboarder, Justin also distills his own Whiskey. Being that both Brian and Ed are big fans of Whiskey, this caught their attention. Justin walks us through his process and the accessibility of distilling booze.

The conversation then turns to Orcam as Justin is a big fan of the Orcam Myeye.

We then talk Audio Description and Alt text for images, as Justin's wife provides the Audio Description for his longer videos.

To follow Justin on his fully described Instagram page visit him here. Check out Justin's videos here.

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.

Episode 51 - An Apple Event Recap, Forgotten In Death! Sep 16, 2021

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It's a Super Sized gathering of the entire That Real Blind Tech Show team, as Allison, Brian, Ed, and Jeanine get together to discuss all the new Apple products.

The gang starts off talking about meeting each other in person for the first time.

We then welcome newbies Allison and Jeanine to The All Blind Fantasy Football League and hear about their first weekend experiences.

Amazon tried to steal Apple's thunder a few days early as they announced a slew of new TV sets including the Series 4 and new Omni line.

On this show because we don't care about all the fancy dance colors of the new iPhone 13, we discuss the new A15 bionic chip, and what the heck it is. A fully loaded iPhone 13 will cost you a pretty penny or penny, or your first born, your choice. Apple finally has upgraded the base amount of storage to 128GB. James Bond would be happy to know that all iPhones will now have Duo SIM capabilities.

iOS 15 not 14 will be dropping on September 20th. Will you be installing it on opening day?

We are not sure but Brian could be the only person on the planet who is excited for the iPad mini Series 6 finally arriving on Earth. With Apple's Centerstage camera feature coming to the newly announced iPads, now you to can roll around like a monkey and still stay in frame with the people you are speaking with!

The Apple Watch Series 7 was announced and we are pretty sure they will be bigger but not in inches in millimeters., The Series 7 will be getting a full on screen keyboard. Which could only mean one thing, another lawsuit against Apple by FlickType.

And with the birth of new products, it means the death of others!

And of course it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming Watcha Reading.

Episode 50 - AirBuddy, A conversation With Developer Gui Rambo Sep 05, 2021

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Brian welcomes in Gui Rambo the developer of AirBuddy .

We discuss what AirBuddy is, why you want it, how it will make using Apple Ecosystem Headphones work with your Mac so much smoother.

We discuss the work a developer needs to take in to consideration when designing and updating an app with accessibility in mind. We walk through some of the features to AirBuddy, and things that are on the horizon for future versions of AirBuddy.

If you would like to join the AirBuddy Beta Testing Team, please visit here.

To listen to more of Gui make sure to subscribe to the 9to5Mac podcast Stacktrace. You can follow Gui's blog here. And on Twitter make sure to follow Gui Here.

We finish up discussing a new Buddy product that Gui is working on.

Brian then demos how to use AirBuddy with VoiceOver

To purchase AirBuddy please visit here.

Episode 49 - If Living Didn't Take Up 24/7 We Might Actually Get More Done Aug 26, 2021

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The gang is back together in full for the first time since Butch and Sundance last rode together, and we start off with a little fun, or well, at least letting you see behind the curtain of what takes place prior to us hitting that record button.

Once we get rambling, we start off discussing the mass exodus of stylists from Stitch Fix. Don't always just read a headline, as the article may be completely different than the headline!

The U.S. government will be streamlining the process supposedly to make it easier for people with severe and permanent disabilities to have their student loans forgiven when they have been unable to find employment.

Netflix has begun rolling out Spatial Audio to Air Pod Pros near you.s

We live in a very different scary world today when Facebook needs to block friend lists of people in Afghanistan. On an unrelated note, China has passed the world's strictest data privacy law. And in the final article from our international tech segment we discuss Russia demanding that Apple remove an Opposition Party's app from its App Store.

We suggest making use of Aira to help store your proof of vaccination, we discuss an article about the way the mainstream has been digitally doing this.

With so much news everywhere these days, we thought it would be a good time to review some of our favorite news apps. Honestly, there really isn't anymore news today than there was yesterday!

Apple rumored to be hosting multiple events in September to announce new products. We guess that means more episodes of That Real Blind Tech Show. It was a good thing that Ed was here so he could explain to us why Apple's CSAM system is extremely dangerous and will kill us all!

Flick Type keyboard for the Blind sleeps with the fishes and the developer blames Apple.

Several iOS 15 features will not be ready for launch day.

And its the return of What's Pissing Off Brian and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Episode 48 - Getting To Know Underdog Fantasy and Best BallIt's the Rage With All the Kids These Days Aug 18, 2021

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Demo Month continues as Brian walks you through another fully accessible Fantasy Football game. This time he is doing a demo of the fantastic fully new accessible Underdog Fantasy. Underdog Fantasy offers Best Ball contests along with weekly one day daily contests where you can draft a new team each week.

Best Ball fantasy football has become all the rage the past few years, as the game is also known as set it and forget it. With Best Ball Fantasy Football, once the draft is completed, there is no week to week management for your team. What you start with is what you finish with. You can check in as often as you like to see your team move up the standings. At the end of the season, the team with the most points wins the pot.

Brian walks you through the layout of the Underdog Fantasy app. He demonstrates how to enter a contest, add players to your queue, re-order players in your queue to your liking, and walks you through how to organize your pre-draft rankings for faster contests.

Brian then dives in to Underdog fantasy on their website.

On the website you will see additional fantastic accessibility navigation methods you can use such as heading navigation, use of the web rotor, and item chooser Additionally, you will get to hear some specific help tags specifically built in to Underdog Fantasy's website for screen reader users. .

Brian walks you through removing a player from your queue of preferred players, walks you through how to reorder your preferred player list, and how to pre-rank your players on the website.

On a very sad note, neither Ezekiel Elliott or Tyree Hill made it to Brian when it was his next turn to pick.

Please make sure to tweet Underdog fantasy thanking them for their fantastic accessibility improvements on the Twitter at @UnderdogFantasy

Episode 47 - Yahoo Fantasy Football The Ultimate Demo Aug 11, 2021

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It's another spectacular That Real Blind Tech show demo. This time, Brian walks you through the Yahoo Fantasy Football app for iOS.

Brian briefly discusses the difference between season long, daily fantasy, and Best Ball Leagues. He describes how to join a Yahoo Fantasy football League. Brian then walks you through the my team home screen, the main tabs you will use, and the league screen.

Brian then walks you through once of his head to head baseball weekly matchups to give you an idea how football scoring matchups will work. He follows that with joining a football mock draft, and showing you how VoiceOver works when live drafting.

For you hard core fantasy football fanatics, Brian finishes with walking you through how to pre-rank your draft rankings using Google Chrome on the Mac.

Episode 46 - Audio Description Czar, A Conversation with Carl Richardson Aug 04, 2021

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Brian and Ed welcome Carl Richardson, Co-Chair of the Audio Description Project for the American Council of the Blind to the show. We start off discussing how Carl came to be at the ADP and what his role is at the ADp.

We then discuss the panel that Carl moderated at this year's ACB National Conference on Audio Description. All 8 major streaming services were represented on the panel about Audio Description.

We then discuss some of Carl's favorite features of Audio Description, and the age old question with Audio Description should the describer describe it before or after it happens?

Carl and Brian then share some of their more interesting experiences with Audio Description at the movie theater. What's a movie theater? It's a big room where people used to conjugate to all watch the same movie at the same time, but that's not important right now.

Just like us, Carl is also a podcaster. Carl's podcast Picture This is all about audio description, and you can subscribe to it here.

We then discuss some of the various ways for you to get audio Described content, as there are so many ways to access this content these days.

The conversation then turns to the controversial topic of Text to Speech Audio Description. .

We also discuss what to do when your local Network affiliate breaks audio description being passed through. And if you have had it with cable make sure to read Carl's excellent article about cutting the cord which can be found here.

For any and all your questions about audio description, find out what is playing on Network TV with audio description, find out what is streaming where with audio description, and pretty much find anything about audio description in the universe please visit the Audio Description Project.

You can find the full ACB 21 Audio Description Project session that Carl moderated with the 8 major streaming services here.

Episode 45 - ACB 2021 Recap, I'm An Excellent Complainer Jul 26, 2021

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It's an Ed less That Real Blind Tech Show, as Allison and Brian wonder twin powers unite to bring you the latest all new That Real Blind Tech show.

Listen in to find out what baffling phrase is setting off Brian's A Lady devices. Strange stuff!

We then discuss self flying planes, seriously self flying planes, they are coming, well some of us think sooner than later. Epic Games is back at it, now they are suing google.

A German man tried an interesting experiment as he sent Air Tags to Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and North Korea. Definitely check out this video about it.

Virtually go where ever you want with Amazon Explorer.

Google Maps can now tell you when your train is too crowded for comfort.

Are you ready for some Fantasy Football? As the new football season approaches, and thanks to popular demand from last season, The All Blind Fantasy Football League will be launching a second All Blind Fantasy Football League. If you are interested in getting in on the free fun, email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

Aira 2.0 will be launching possibly by the end of the year. We discuss some of the exciting additions coming to Aira.

Allison and Brian then dive in to their experiences and recap of this year's ACB Virtual Conference.

Allison and Brian then discuss updating apps and whether or not apps are breaking all accessibility less frequently these days.

Episode 44 - NFB 21 Recap: Be all You Can Be Jul 16, 2021

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The entire gang is back together again in their cardboard basements of choice.

We start off discussing the Linuk Foundations launching an open voice network to build an industry wide standard. Leakers are reporting that Lidar will only be available on the iPhone Pro 13 models. Will that affect your decision?

We have told you multiple times to never ever quote That Real Blind Tech Show, well now you may never ever want to quote Mashable, as they get things wrong to! They claim Spatial Audio will not work on the iPhone SE, but it indeed does. Verizon customers can now enjoy numbers attempting to spoof theirs being blocked.

The NFB has wrapped its 2021 National Conference. We start off our recap discussing the impressive Crowd Compass app that was used for this year's conference. Allison and Brian then discuss their take aways from the sessions and exhibitors that caught their attention. They were both really impressed with everything Amazon had to discuss.

We include a sample of text to speech audio description and a little error that TTS can make.

We then dive in to reviewing this year's NFB Resolutions, and amazingly we agree with almost all of them.

Since we last recorded Allison made the jump to a new Smart Speaker setup. She has joined the Sonos ecosystem after hearing a phenomenal demo The Ultimate Sonos demo. We wonder where she heard it? We then discuss setting up the Eero Mesh Router network, while fully accessible, you can encounter some fun if you previously have both a 5G and 2G network.

Your VoiceMails can now be heard on That Real Blind Tech Show. We got a great call about our review of the Saetchi Multi-Device keyboard. A listener suggests the Mathias Multi-Device Bluetooth keyboard which sounds fantastic despite only a 3.7 review on Amazon.

And it's the return of What's Pissing Brian Off and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading!

Episode 43 - Demo of HBO Max, Audio Description, and How to Utilize the Apple TV App Jul 11, 2021

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It's another spectacularly awesome That Real Blind Tech show demo. Brian flying solo as he demos the HBO Max iOS app accessibility along with how to play Audio Description.

Brian walks you through the Home screen of the app, how to get audio description playing, how to add titles to my list, heading navigation of the app, and the design quirks to finding my list. He also walks you through the search functionality of the app

Brian then walks you through the Apple TV app and how to make use of the continue watching feature with HBO Max and other applications. He then demonstrates how to move around to different seasons and episodes for a tV series. He then explores the library tab where all of the movies and TV Shows you have purchased through iTunes are located.

Brian finishes showing you how to search for a movie if you are uncertain where it may be streaming through the Apple TV app.

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