That Real Blind Tech Show

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. With an epic week in tech, we got the entire gang here to recap it all. We kick things off about pickles, but unlike a dirty pickle, this story is about a frozen pickle.

We then get a little side tracked about mice, alligators, and gerbils as only That Real Blind Tech show can do. We then get a lesson about the streets of Japan.

We then discuss the issue with the latest Jaws update.

We then dive in to the debacle known as the Sonos update.

Apple and Open A.I. are rumored to be finalizing details to have ChatGPT in iOS 18. We got our iOS 18 accessibility enhancements announced the day before Global Accessibility Awareness Day. In iOS 18 you will be able to use custom phrases to trigger actions. Here is a list of all the new accessibility features mentioned by Apple coming in iOS 18.

Open A.I. has unveiled ChatGPT 4 Omni, and it is pretty impressive. And because one article cannot sum it all up, here’s a second article discussing some of the other capabilities of ChatGPT 4o. Open A.I. will also be launching a Mac Desktop app, not available just yet as we have checked. ChatGPT will soon be able to see everything on your Mac or iPhone screen. Is this the beginning of the screen reader evolution? But the biggest thing coming out of Open A.I.’s announcements was Andy Lane showing off the next generation of vision as a blind person using ChatGPT 4Omni.

We then move on to discussing all the announcements that came out of Google IO. Android phones will now be able to tell if someone snatches your phone out of your hand. Gemini will also be getting better at understanding what is on your phone’s screen. Google glass may be dead, but Google is working on a new prototype of glasses. Android phones will soon allow you to use your face to control your cursor. Who knew with the explosion of A.I. that it would lead to Google actually cleaning up its search? Google has a lot of new enhancements coming to Android tool Lookout.

We then spin the bottle and go around the table as most of us have been buying new things. Products discussed here include the new iPad Pro, Meta Ray bans, Zoom Essential H6, and more.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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The entire gang is back together in full for the first time in awhile. We kick the show off discussing a woman who has it much worse with the airlines then any guide dog handler!

Apple has announced an event for May 7th, but it is most likely just an iPad event. Apple has struck up talks again with ChatGPT to possibly include in iOS 18, what would this mean for Apple’s own Generative A.I.? Apple has yanked three apps from the App Store that could create nude A.I. fakes. Here at That Real Blind Tech Show we’re not always about the positive so we discuss the worst ever of WWDC. Once again only one of us was not aware of this feature, as did you know that your iPhone has a white noise machine built in to it?

We then discuss the status of Google search and the man credited with killing Google search. Only over due for about a decade Google’s Groups IO finally has gotten an accessibility update, but one major thing is missing from the update.

We then discuss the state of the Smart Home, and what happened to all the innovation with Smart Homes. Has the economy and inflation killed the Smart Home? Remember Matter?

Like the A.I. Humane Pin, the early reviews are in for the Rabbit R!, and the reviews are not stellar. With all these handheld devices coming out, is the future of A.I. still our phones?

Ed then tells us about the recent conference he attended in Arizona Move United about adaptive sports.  

Will a new scenic app from Honda make those long drives for blind people more scenic and eventful?

Ed then tells us about a little side project of his that happened this past week.

And its more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show minus one Ed as he is sick again, but the rest of the gang is here and well.

We kick things off discussing the eclipse because why wouldn’t we? We then discuss the death of O.J. Simpson, again because why wouldn’t we?

We then dive in to the tech news and start off discussing the conclusion to the VoiceDream Reader controversy and how the blindness community responded to it.

And our new favorite term, Subscription Creep has hit 2/3 of Americans. 

Early reviews of the Smart A.I. Humane Pin have not been good or kind. Will the Rabbit R1 be everything we were hoping the Humane A.I. Pin was going to be?

Microsoft is annoying users with a full screen pop up to upgrade to Windows 11 even if your machine cannot update to Windows 11.

Well everyone on That Real Blind Tech show except Brian knew that their iPhone had a secret code scanner app. Who knew? Is the Apple Vision Pro the most underwhelming Apple Product ever and are we still excited about it? Even with Apple Vision Pro being a swing and a miss for us we are still hopeful for Apple Glasses eventually. Is your Apple Watch suffering from Ghost Touch? Why has Apple paid millions to Shutter Stock to help train its Generative A.I. Program? Apple is planning a big M4 Mac update for A.I., ugh. And because WWDC is only two months away we decided to discuss some of the hottest iOS 18 rumors.

And as usual we get sidetracked and start talking about the A.I. app Pi. Which then leads us in to a conversation of will A.I. be revolutionary for screen reader users and accessibility? Only problem with all of this is that under a newly proposed law A.I. companies will have to fess up on what they are using to train their A.I. models before releasing them.

We then discuss the upcoming conference for VizWiz that Brian will be speaking at and recall the history of Vizwiz. Which then leads us down memory lane of all the computer vision apps that have come and gone over the years.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new extra extra big That Real Blind Tech show as it’s our 2024 CSUN recap episode. It is so big that we have the ladies Jeanine and Allison recording with friend of the podcast David Goldstein and because someone who edits the show got sick we then have Brian and Ed recapping CSUN as well. It all comes together in one giant Kumbaya podcast episode for your listening pleasure.

Jeanine starts out discussing the announcements made by Aira at this year’s CSUN. We’ll give you a clue it has something to do with A.I.

And because Brian and Ed were not here yet, Allison, David , and Jeanine then discuss the braille with a lower case b keyboards announced at this year’s CSUN.

We then cut to our main men on the ground at CSUN for their insights in to everything they experienced first hand at this year’s CSUN.

Brian and Ed start off discussing a recent article by a man who is losing his vision that appeared in the Atlantic, and they could not disagree with the article more. They then discuss the upcoming release of David Kingsbury third edition of the Windows Screen Reader Primer. And then discuss the upsetting news about VoiceDream Reader moving to a monthly subscription model even if you have bought a lifetime license.

Mike Buckley then pops by to discuss the latest announcements coming out of Be My A.I.

Brian and Ed discuss the multiple cocktail hours they hit at CSUN, OKO, the new Guidance Guidance System, Celeste Glasses, Enivision AI, Vispero, Deque, WeWalk Cane, Fa Fable,  Stevie Wonder, Irish Car Bombs, Google Suite, and much more that they experienced in person at CSUN.

It’s then back to the ladies and David for some more banter and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading. 

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show and the full gang is all back together. We kick the show off discussing the last episode, and Brian’s thoughts of it.

We then kick things off discussing letters of recommendation and how idiotic universities and the government can be when it comes to technology.

Since a lot of Labs listen to our podcast, we discuss the article about how scientists recently discovered a gene that leads to most Labs being obese.

Who would have thunk it, but the WiFi at Google’s new Mt. View office sucks big time according to employees.

Windows is ditching Android and Amazon apps.

Apple Podcast has introduced transcripts in iOS 17.4. If you blinked you might have missed the introduction of the new Apple sports app. We then discuss the rumored iOS 18 accessibility improvements. This leads to us discussing the horrific bug still in Google Chrome on the Mac which has yet to be fixed and makes chrome pretty much unusable to VoiceOver users.

Twitter has introduced phone and video calls for all users. Did anyone on the planet want this? Not only can Twitter’s new calling feature open you up to more scams, but it can also possibly expose your IP address. Here’s how to disable this call feature in Twitter. MuskButt plans to hide the Likes and ReTweets counts in future versions of Twitter.

Brian then dives in to recapping his latest travel adventures with the airlines and a guide dog, Lift and uBer, and other fun things that happened along his journey from San Francisco to L.A. to San Diego. Allison also discusses her recent trip to New Mexico. And we all discuss some of our favorite travel apps. And you can check out the full Saturday Night Live Alaska Airline clip here. We then discuss walking ones guide dog while using an umbrella in a massive storm.

We then discuss the upcoming CSUN Conference as Brian and Ed will be attending. We start off discussing some of the sessions that have caught our attention. We some how get off on a tangent about inclusive design versus accessibility. We then dive in to the exhibitor list and what booths we plan on popping by.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Now that we are on a regular two week recording schedule, someone was missing from this episode, but of course we needed him to edit the show, hence the delay of the release. Hmm, who is not here?

The gang kicks the show off discussing using Chat GPT to find information in large PDF documents.

Without Brian here and after some character assassination the gang finally gets going and discusses the recent cellular outage that affected a lot of the nation. This then leads to discussing how dependent we blind people are on our technology.

Apple is rumored to be introducing generative A.I. to Siri in iOS 18.

Jeanine then discusses her recent experience with ChatGPT and using it to build a press release. T.J. then tells us about how he has been using A.I. at work. Jeanine then discusses more about how she has been using A.I. to create slides and spreadsheets. Ed discusses showing off the features of ChatGPT to the students he teaches, and Allison discusses how she has been using A.I. in her every day life.

And because it’s not all A.I. the gang then discusses YouTube TV, the Fire TV, Hulu and some other streaming services they have been using lately.

Allison then talks about her new pair of Sony headphones, but because Brian was not here she got away without mentioning what freaking model she got. Come on guys! Well jeanine attempted to get Allison to give us the model number. Jeanine then discusses her new pair of AfterShockz.

Jeanine then lets everyone know that Aira is currently looking for beta testers.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as Allison, Brian and Jeanine get together as Ed fell under the weather.

We kick things off discussing the brilliant clip of Larry David on the season premier of Curb Your Enthusiasm and his experience with Siri. It is must watch, and can be fully viewed here.

We then dive in to a story because we care about Steven Scott and the latest fiasco regarding Apple Maps in Scotland.

A guy on Tinder used ChatGPT to speak to 5000 women and met his wife doing it.

Some how a 200 foot radio tower went missing in Alabama.

iTunes for Windows was broken in to three useless apps.

Did you know that certain hand gestures can cause fireworks and other behavior in FaceTime and other video call applications?

We then discuss the Apple Vision Pro and the fantastic article written by Brian Giles on AppleVis. Apple has put together a decent document on using Vision Pro with VoiceOver. And could Vision Pro’s shortcomings lead to its eventual success?

We then dive in to the A.I. portion of the show as we start off discussing an interesting article about how artificial gen intelligence could redefine accessibility.

Amazon is getting ready to launch an A.I. shopping assistant named Rufus.

Jeanine then walks us through some pretty cool things she has learned to do with ChatGPT. And people as usual Jeanine did not send me the links for the show notes, not to call her out or anything.

Apple has released an open source A.I. image editor.

And why are people saying that Google’s new A.I. Gemini is full of ghosts?

Brian then discusses a couple of upcoming podcasts he will be on. Coming to a podcast player near you. He also discusses the role he auditioned for and plays a clip of his acting.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as Allison, Brian and Jeanine get together as Ed fell under the weather.

We kick things off discussing the brilliant clip of Larry David on the season premier of Curb Your Enthusiasm and his experience with Siri. It is must watch, and can be fully viewed here.

We then dive in to a story because we care about Steven Scott and the latest fiasco regarding Apple Maps in Scotland.

A guy on Tinder used ChatGPT to speak to 5000 women and met his wife doing it.

Some how a 200 foot radio tower went missing in Alabama.

iTunes for Windows was broken in to three useless apps.

Did you know that certain hand gestures can cause fireworks and other behavior in FaceTime and other video call applications?

We then discuss the Apple Vision Pro and the fantastic article written by Brian Giles on AppleVis. Apple has put together a decent document on using Vision Pro with VoiceOver. And could Vision Pro’s shortcomings lead to its eventual success?

We then dive in to the A.I. portion of the show as we start off discussing an interesting article about how artificial gen intelligence could redefine accessibility.

Amazon is getting ready to launch an A.I. shopping assistant named Rufus.

Jeanine then walks us through some pretty cool things she has learned to do with ChatGPT. And people as usual Jeanine did not send me the links for the show notes, not to call her out or anything.

Apple has released an open source A.I. image editor.

And why are people saying that Google’s new A.I. Gemini is full of ghosts?

Brian then discusses a couple of upcoming podcasts he will be on. Coming to a podcast player near you. He also discusses the role he auditioned for and plays a clip of his acting.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at [email protected], 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.   

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian sits down with Dr. Bryan Wolynski from the Lighthouse Guild in New York City fresh off of this year’s CES and ATIA conferences.

We start off discussing this year’s CES Conference and the most interesting things that caught Bryan’s attention. How odd we start with autonomous vehicles. We discuss the fun part of locating your vehicle when it arrives.

Next up was Robot Dogs. Blind brian’s Guide Dog Wesley was not a fan.

Bryan then dives in to the Eureka Park area at the Venetian Hotel where all the start ups are located and some real innovation is being done.

We discuss the newly released app OOrion that helps people discover items around them. We then discuss another app Bryan got introduced to called From Your Eyes. We then dive in to the obstacle avoidance apps that were on display at CES. We then discuss OneCourt for the blind sports fan out there. And the impressive work that AARP is conducting. We wrap up our coverage of this year’s CES discussing an award that the Lighthouse Guild NYC won.

We then jump in to this year’s ATIA Conference that just wrapped up. Surprisingly Apple was an attendee at this year’s conference. We then discuss a company called Audible Sight whose goal is to allow you to produce your own audio description for your videos. Next up is Orcam and E-Sight.

We then discuss CSUN which will be happening in mid-March.

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It’s the first That Real Blind Tech show of the new year, and we got the entire gang here. It’s a blind tech podcast so we start off with what else, but a state of the podcast.

We then kick the year off with the story of the year. Yes, we are getting it out of the way early as eBay executives sent critics of eBay a bloody pig mask among some other things. And yes, if you criticize us you may want to check your mailbox for a bloody pig mask!

Microsoft is set to take one of your keyboard keys away for Co-Pilot, how will this affect screen readers workflows?

Over the holidays Be My A.I. announced a new feature to set up a group of friends and family.

Brian then goes in to a recent negative experience he had with an Amazon product, and is still trying to figure out what to do about it.

We then discuss the meal delivery service factor 75.

Google Assistant will be losing 17 features in the coming weeks, unfortunately most of them are voice related.

A.I. George Carlin releases a comedy special that George Carlin would have hated.

Apple Vision Pro is up for preorders on January 19th, delivering on February 2nd, here’s what will be in the box. Apple is only producing 80,000 Apple Vision Pro’s for launch day. Additionally, if you want a demo of Apple Vision Pro it looks like Apple will only be demoing the device on launch weekend.

We kick off the CES portion of our show discussing the clicks iPhone case. Who knew we already had a replacement for the Humane A.I. pin in the R1. All the Apple Gear announced at CES. We then discuss some of the weirdest and coolest gadgets we heard about at this year’s CES. And with a lot of us here at That Real Blind Tech show being insomniacs and bad sleepers, we were very interested to learn about the Brain Band.

We then dive in to our reviews of the Meta Ray Ban Glasses and our initial experiences with the Celeste Glasses.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an absolutely epic end of the year That Real Blind Tech Show which brings the entire gang and more together. We end 2023 squashing our beef with another Blind Tech show. We once and for all settle the beef over who The Real Mr. F is.

After some fun we eventually get to discussing our favorite tech products of the year, as after all we are a tech show believe it or not.

Of course with all of us here we have a little trouble getting through all our favorite tech products, but along the way you will get to learn a little about how  That Real Blind Tech show, Double Tap, and ICantCU  found our ways in to the spectacular podcasts we are today.

Yes, it took us this long to get through all of our tech products, but trust me you will not want to miss the insanity that ensues along the way. If we were up for an Emmy this would be our submission episode!

And it’s an extended Watcha Streaming, watcha Reading with our guests.

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It’s an all new That Real Real Blind Tech show as the entire gang of Allison, Brian, Ed, and Jeanine are back together again for the first time in awhile. The Fab Four is back baby, sorry David.

We kick off the show discussing new social networks which leads to us discussing old social networks.

We then dive in to our back and forth with the gang over at Double Tap and Mr. F, and a response you must hear to actually believe.

A boy in England has an issue with the Nerd Face emoji, and who knew there was a nerd face emoji?

We then revisit a topic from years ago, should you be force quitting your apps, and is juice jacking real?

No you don’t need to turn off the Name Drop feature on your iPhone, despite what the coppers are saying.

How out of control has tipping gotten?

Be My A.I. beta and Seeing A.I. finally have come to Android phones.

Ends up the Open A.I. Board wanted the Altman firing to be a secret until it happened, how did that work out for the board? And why has the entire A.I. world been talking about Q star? We then discuss what we use Chat GPT for. We then discuss adding Chat GPT to our action button, which leads Jeanine to discussing her new favorite app.

Brian then talks about his Audio Hijack issue which led to a trip to the Apple Store and then to a purchase.

And since Brian has a new purchase we figured we would discuss what steps we take when setting up a new computer. Which then led to a little winter cleaning.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show, and the episode that almost never happened. It’s a packed studio with Allison, Brian, Jeanine, and David Goldstein once again pinch hitting for a sick Ed.

After some fun technological difficulties, we kick things off discussing the NFB Pennsylvania state conference that both Brian and David were just at. And Brian doesn’t even live in the state of Pennsylvania. Jeanine then fills us in on the ACB Ohio conference she just attended and the special message that was waiting for her at the conference. Which then leads us to a new term, BBB, and you will have to listen to learn what it mean.

Is. Amazon working on a new operating system?

Microsoft is rebranding Remote Desktop as Windows app, but will it be for enterprise users only?

Apple has followed IBM, and Disney, Comcast, and Paramount have all paused advertising on Twitter because MuskButt it an idiot.

It has been a crazy past few days since Open A.I. fired C.E.O. Sam Altman. What will this mean for the future of Be My A.I.? And because we are not a daily podcast or a breaking news show, before we could get this episode released Sam Altman has returned to Open A.I. and is back as their C.E.O., and the board is out.

Be My A.I. has now expanded in to customer service with their partnership with Microsoft.

Is the Singularity closer than we think, and is it real?

The Humane A.I. pin sounded like a game changer for the blind at first, but then we checked out their website. And their demo got a few things wrong with their A.I.

With A.I. being the rage these days, no wonder Cambridge Dictionary chose Hallucinate as the word of the year.

We discuss Black Friday and if we will be shopping for anything, or has Black Friday jumped the shark. While none of us were that excited for Black Friday, we were all very interested to learn about the strangest gifts found on the internet.

Supposedly in Watch OS 10.2 you will once again be able to flick through your watch faces like you used to be able to.

And it is an absolutely epic What’s Pissing Off Brian that you will not want to miss and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. The entire gang is almost here, we’re missing Ed, but we got David Goldstein pinch hitting for Ed  as we recap the Apple Scary Fast event. But not to worry our show includes a lot more than the Apple event included.

We kick the show off discussing traitorous behavior, and how silly other blind podcasts can be. Yes, we are quite the critics.

We then play a clip of Brian on the news discussing this year’s Laugh For Sight Comedy Benefit which was at Gotham Comedy Club on Monday, October 30th, yes, the same time as the Apple Scary Fast event. We bet we were much more entertaining, as David and Brian discuss this year’s benefit.

We then discuss a very interesting spam email Brian got.

We then discuss the Beatles new song which made use of A.I. in its development. Is this a good thing?

YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers causing a mass exodus from them.

Introducing the world’s first ChatGPT indoor camera. Could this be something for the blind and useful if it is accessible? On a related note world powers got together as they claim they want to contain A.I. And it took President Biden watching the latest Mission Impossible movie to get concerned about the future of A.I.

We then finally tackle the latest Apple event Scary Fast. Apple announced new M3 Mac Book Pros and a new 24 inch iMac. Instead of discussing the newly announced Macs, we discuss which Macs we are currently running, and our current opinions and issues with the state of VoiceOver on the Mac. And we’re all trying to figure out why Mac accessories are still lightning charging.

And finally, finally Brian remembered to include some of the VoiceMails and Emails we have gotten in to the show. Thanks to everyone who called and wrote in.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with the entire gang here. We kick off the pre-roll with the first ever That Real Blind Tech Show talent competition where Jeanine dominates, and others just try.

After our intros and a brief discussion about the horrific event that transpired this past weekend, we get in to some nonsense to hopefully put a smile on your face.

Our first article we discuss may be of interest to those Ring Doorbell owners, and how you can get Amazon to give you 1 million dollars!

You will not believe this next one as a man was sentenced to 9 years in prison in England for his A.I. girlfriend talking him in to attempting to kill Queen Elizabeth. Disclaimer this took place while she was still alive, and we can not confirm or deny that this was Steven or Shaun from Double Tap!

Remember that call for a pause on the further development of A.I.? Well, it didn’t work.

The reviews are in, and so far A.I. is a money pit that isn’t paying off. Here is the must see YouTube video of a British Comic speaking before Oxford University about the environment that Brian mentions.

Can’t green and blue bubbles live together in perfect harmony? And on a side note who the hell knew there were different colored bubbles in your text messages?

87% of American teenagers own an iPhone.

This year’s Laugh For Sight NYC Comedy Benefit is coming up on Monday, October 30th at Gotham Comedy Club, you can purchase your tickets here.

Future iPads may be able to charge your other devices through its screen.

Is your iPhone shutting off in the middle of the night? You’re not alone.

We then discuss Allison’s new AirPod Pros with a USBc charging case, and how often we charge our AirPods.

We then get a little sidetracked in the first ever That Real Blind Tech show singing competition, but you will not want to miss it and make sure to submit your vote for a winner at [email protected].

The only thing worse then the state of things at Twitter is the stuff that is going on in house at Twitter. And in another poor decision by Musk, Twitter removes headlines from news articles causing accessibility to go down hill for screen reader users.

We then have a discussion of the top five apps we use on a daily basis, not necessarily accessibility focused, but we end up only doing three rounds, as we get a little sidetracked. If you listen to the full episode you will discover why we cut it short a little later in the show. You will not want to miss it!

It’s a special What’s Pissing Off Brian Now, with a bunch of quick hitters, and we get a What’s Pissing Off Jeanine and Allison, with a very special reaction by ed that you will not want to miss.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Joining Allison and Brian is T.J. Meloy, as we had to exclude Ed and Jeanine since they are not rocking all new iPhone 15’s. We decided to jump on and discuss our new iPhones along with a little other tech news.

We kick things off discussing the latest coming out of Be My Eyes. On a related note ChatGPT announced they are rolling out chat and visual capabilities. Amazon announced they invested 4 billion dollars in OpenAI competitor Anthropic.

The reviews have been less than stellar for Apple’s leather case style replacements. Brian has had an adventure finding just the right case for his new iPhone 15.

We then dive in to our initial thoughts of our iPhone 15 Pro’s and Allison’s iPhone 15 Pro Max. We discuss the Action Button and the disappointment of it not being an Actions Button.

We then dive in to some of the interesting issues we had setting up our new iPhones. Wow, wouldn’t it have been nice to know that you need to perform an update to your brand new iPhone before transferring your data!

Brian then discusses the issue he had pairing his old Apple Watch to his new phone.

We discuss speeding up the Siri voice and personal voice.

We then tell you whether or not we will be updating to Mac OS Sonoma which dropped earlier this week.

It’s a quick What’s Pissing Off Brian Now, as Amazon announced they will start putting more ads in its content unless you pay extra to get rid of them.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, watcha Reading.

To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at [email protected], 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, and make sure to visit our website where you can listen to any of our past episodes.  

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show where the entire gang is back together to discuss the Apple Wanderlust event, the products we have already ordered, and much more.

We start off discussing why we recorded this episode later than usual. Hey, like we have said before, we got busy lives.

Apple kicked off its Wanderlust event with a video of how Apple products have saved lives. Well let’s just say this gentleman did not make the video as his butt dial triggered the S.O.S. alert.

No, Mexico did not discover alien life!

And in the in you can’t make this shit up corner, a woman mistakenly swallowed an AirPod thinking it was a vitamin.

One of us picked the wrong week to join BetMGM.

We then discuss some disturbing trends going on with the tremendous Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer. Thank you very little ChatGPT. After we recorded, Be My Eyes released the following statement about what has been going on with ChatGPT and photos with people in them.

We then discuss the chaos of what was Apple new product launch day.

Then one of us does a total about face about an Apple product they said they had no interest in. Hmm, wonder who the flip flopper could be?

We then dive in to the Apple event. Not to worry as we assume you have most of the details elsewhere so we go through everything only as That Real Blind Tech show can. We start off discussing all the new iPhone 15’s that were announced. We discuss the new action button coming to the Pro lineup and what its capabilities will be. We discuss the switch from lighting to USBc and how the port will be standard USBc. Relax everyone, it has been confirmed that the Apple cloth will work with all iPhone 15 models! The iPhone 15’s USBc will be capable of reverse charging for your other Apple USBc devices, and possibly non-Apple USBc devices. Apple in iOS 17 has introduced 20 new ringtones.

We then get to iOS 17 and the bugs we have been having. Since iOS 17 launched today, you may have already updated, but if you did a backup, you can probably still roll back to iOS 16 until Apple stops signing it which could be the end of the week. Remember, not everyone will have the same bugs. We discuss being able to invoke Siri without the Hey and using back to back commands.

Apple announced the new Apple Watch 9 and Ultra 2. The sighted community went all gaga over the new hand gesture feature announced, but is it really a new feature? On device Siri processing also comes to the new Apple Watches.

Apple introduced new Air Pods with a USBc case. Bad news if you only want the new case.

Mac OS Sonoma will drop on September 26th. Chrome on the Mac will soon get access to iCloud keychain.

While none of us have this product yet, it sounded to cool not to mention. The Flic Twist Button for all your smart home products.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. It is just Brian and the newly named Bladies, Allison and Jeanine. We start off with a little pre-ramble discussing tech frustrations. Yes, it happens to us tech Gods.

We then kick things off discussing exploding microwaves, and microwaves catching fire. If you have a great microwave for the blind, do let us know.

Horrifying news, as scientists have proven that Beer Goggles are not real! Next up, who knew Astronauts were such Messy Marvins?

We then discuss the two new apps here to replace Microsoft Soundscape, Soundscape and Voice Vista. Jeanine tells us about her recent trip to Hawaii and her experiences using Voice Vista. Jeanine then tells us about a new app she recently discovered to help you read touch screens called Echo Batix.

An impossible Apple security vulnerability has appeared to riders of the NYC MTA.

England could soon ban Apple security updates.

We then discuss Facebook’s new Threads app, which leads us down the social media rabbit hole to Mastodon. Facebook now has a new privacy setting where you can beg Facebook pretty pretty please don’t use my data to train your A.I. Europeans may soon have the option to pay for an ad free Facebook.

No surprise, since Twitter rebranded to X, App Store downloads have dropped significantly. Are you waiting for the day when you can make a phone or video call through Twitter?

We then dive in to the rumors about the upcoming Apple Event on September 12th, Wanderlust. We discuss the iPhone models that could be in our future, battery issues some of us have been having with our current models, and the dynamic island and its usefulness. We then discuss the rumored new action button which will replace the mute button. And of course we need to mention the rumored switch to USBC. We then discuss the new AppleWatch rumors. AirPods are rumored to also be making the switch to USBC charging. We then wonder if we will hear more about the Apple Vision Pro? And finally one of us is hopeful that the rumor of a new iPad mini is true.

We then discuss some helpful information if you are running an M  Series Mac and having issues with VoiceOver volume when booting up.

Apple will soon be ending all Social Media customer service support.

And it’s more of Watcha Watching, Watcha Streaming.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, Brian is joined by Developer, Writer, and Fellow Podcaster Casey Liss from The Accidental Tech Podcast. Casey is the developer behind the new fantastic CallSheet iOS app. The app works fantastically well with VoiceOver, and we highly recommend subscribing to the app if you are a TV and Movie fan.

We kick the interview off actually talking about Brian and a little behind the scenes about his Top Gear appearance.

Casey then tells us how he came up with the idea for CallSheet, and then walks us through how the app ended up being fully accessible for VoiceOver users. Casey explains how Swift UI Kit  makes it easier to design apps with accessibility in mind.

Casey tells us about meeting one on one with an Accessibility expert at Apple during WWDC, and how beneficial it was to him.

We talk about Casey’s fellow podcasters John Siracusaa and Marco Arment from the Accidental Tech Podcast, and discuss how Marco was helpful in the development of CallSheet.

We discuss the Yahoo All Blind Fantasy Football League Mini Documentary and how it was all born out of accessibility and communication.

We then discuss the subscription plans in CallSheet and what they include. Casey then tells us what developers think about short and long term when setting subscription costs.

We then talk about the moved.org where CallSheet’s information is sourced from and whether or not you can update information on it.

We then discuss possible CallSheet integration with Plex and Channels. Which leads Brian to mentioning Audio Description and how fantastic it would be to have a service that mentions whether or not a title has Audio Description.

Casey tells us a little about his podcast The Accidental Tech Podcast and you can subscribe to it here.

You can keep up with all things Casey on his website. You can also find Casey on Mastodon and Instagram.     

We finish up discussing Mastodon and the blind communities exodus from Twitter, or whatever they are calling it these days.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as most of the gang is back together for the first time in a month. Allison, Brian and Ed discuss some tech, interesting articles, and share some laughter along the way.

We kick the show off discussing the Inaugural Laugh For Sight Long Island which took place on August 7th. We then get a little self involved as we realize our third anniversary since our rebrand came and went without a party or anything.

We then discuss the recently released Voice Vista. The app that replaces the now defunct Microsoft Soundscape. Ed gives us an example of how he uses beacons to map out places in Central Park, which then leads us to discussing indoor navigation in unfamiliar layouts.

We then discuss the possible dumbest rebranding of all time, Twitter to X. We then turn our attention to the latest updates on the bout of the Century, Musk V Zuckhead.

Google Chrome is getting ready to start using Generative A.I. to summarize articles. Is this a good or bad thing?

We then discuss a must read article, The Origins of Your Favorite Swear Words.

We then discuss two new exciting apps. First up is an app called Beeper which is currently on a wait list, then we discuss a fantastic fully accessible replacement for iMDB, CallSheet.

With the cost of streaming services going up everywhere, are you cutting back?

Scammers are now coming your phone number. Is this fear mongering or real?

You will soon be able to get food delivered to you at your airport gate, but will any of it be accessible?

And it’s the return of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now, an extended version, and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. The entire gang of Allison, Brian, Ed, and Jeanine are all here with are great audio back to normal now that we are off the road.

We start things off discussing Ed and my Flight for Sight travel adventures, and some fun recording issues we ran in to while on the road. Allison then lets us all know what Brian is like as a houseguest. To learn more about Flight for Sight check out their website.

We then dive in to the 2023 NFB Resolutions discussion, and you can read all of the resolutions that were passed here.

While we don’t cover all the resolutions that passed, we do start off discussing resolution 1 which has to do with web accessibility and the Department of Justice.

Resolution 2 deals with state VR and their usage or lack of usage of funds.

Resolution 3 has to do with the accessibility of Twitter.

Resolution 4 was about accessible absentee voting.

Resolution 5 has to do with real time audio delays at live sporting events for the four major sports.

Resolution 6 is about the enforcement of 508, and thank goodness Jeanine was here to explain 508 to all of us.

Resolution 8 has to do with the Department of Transportation.

Resolution Now we get in to the silly resolutions, as Resolution 13 has to do with the way chat bots and A.I. define blind peeps.

And we came up with the best solution to Resolution 15 the inaccessibility of CSPAN votes.

We then get an update from Jeanine about her time at this year’s ACB Conference.

Then we hit up an email and recent phone call from our buddy over the pond.

And if you are in the Long Island area, make sure to come out to the Inaugural Laugh For Sight Long Island on Monday August 7, 2023. For tickets.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show and ICantCU Combo Podcast, as our friend David Goldstein joins Brian and Ed at the NFB Conference 2023 to recap our three day experience at this year’s conference. We recorded this podcast at two in the morning, so we may sound a little tired, and since we were all in the same room, we apologize for the issues with Ed’s mic. Of course with technology, it wouldn’t be That Real Blind Tech Show if there wasn’t a tech issue!

We start off talking about the fun people we met in Houston. Only Brian, David, and Ed could go to a conference with 2800 blind peeps and end up meeting a bunch of sighted people.

We then head back to our arrival in Houston, and the fun we had finding our hotel. David talks about the phenomenal customer service we received during our entire stay at the Embassy Suites Downtown Houston.

We then discuss the iBug  Today party that we were invited to, and hit up a little late. David talks about the luck he had at the party. Ed then discusses the difference between beep ball and the Italian Blind Baseball he was discussing with people at the conference.

We then discuss some of the booths we hit up at the NFB conference. And David discusses the blind enterprise program and the struggles he has had with it.

David then tells us about the closing night banquet dinner and it sounds way to confusing  and not fun, good thing Brian and Ed will already be out of Houston. We then backtrack and talk about our dinner at Papa Deux that night, and we circle back to meeting our new friends Clay and Bryan.

We then discuss going to the Astros game on July 4th. We discuss our experience with guest services and the real time radio broadcast feed.

We then go in to what caused us to delay podcasting to two in the morning, and it was worth it.

We then all give our opinions of this year’s NFB Conference.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian and Ed sit down with Mike May at the National Federation of the Blind 2023 Conference in Houston, Texas. Our apologies for our tech issue as even though we tested it, Ed’s mic was not hot, so his mic quality is not what you are used to on That Real Blind Tech Show.

Mike discusses using the Good Maps app to get around the Conference and find places of interest in Houston. Mike tells us a little about his career involvement with accessible navigation. Mike then tells us about some of the exciting changes coming to Good Maps Outdoors.

Mike then lets us know what he likes about coming to conferences like the NFB and Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We discuss what products at this year’s NFB have excited Mike.

We discuss the current 15 to 30 second delay from real time that is occurring on AM/FM radios at Major League Baseball games. At the 2023 NFB Conference a resolution was passed targeting this delay. You can read about the resolution and all the NFB resolutions passed at this year’s conference here.

We then find out why Mike is now consulting with Flight for Sight.

Mike then explains the concept of the power of getting un-lost.

Mike fills us in on his upcoming travels  which are fairly extensive.

If you would like to read Brian’s recap about Ed and Brian’s entire time in Houston, a recap of the NFB Conference, the Astros game, and more, you can read it here.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join Allison, Brian, and Ed as they discuss the latest in tech news.

We start off discussing a follow up article from two episodes ago, as we may be getting the fight of the century!

A New York City man attempted to drive his car in to Google’s Headquarters as he claimed that Google had been torturing him for years, and no, it was not Brian.

Flight For Sight has announced their Inaugural winners, and Brian is one of them. We discuss his upcoming travels that will be kicking off July 1st.

VoiceDtream Scanner has a new name, whoops.

We are thrilled to announce the Inaugural Laugh For Sight Long Island. If you are in the Long Island area, join us on Monday, August 7th at Mulcahy’s in Wantaugh. Join Legendary Comedian Robert Klein, Aaron Berg, Ophira Eisenberg, Brian Fischler with his guide dog Wesley, and Host Brian McCarthy. More to be announced soon. For tickets. This evening will benefit the U.S. Blind Baseball Association and Third Eye Insight.

According to 9to5 Mac third party apps will not be allowed access to the Apple Vision Pro cameras.

 The Vision Pro will turn any surface in to a display with touch controls. We then read an email about how the Apple Vision Pro could be revolutionary for those with low vision.

In Mac OS Sonoma and iOS 17, Apple will be giving all Apple ID’s a Passkey. Apple News in iOS 17 will be getting crossword puzzles. iOS 17 will allow you to send any audio to the HomePod using Siri. Scanning QR codes will get easier in iOS 17.

The EU could force all phones to have removable batteries.

The FTC is suing Amazon over deceptive Prime sign up and cancelation policies. Amazon Prime Day has been announced for July 11th.

Logitech suffers stock hit and sarcastic Amazon reviews over sub disaster controller.

We then dive in to Brian’s initial experiences planning his travel for his upcoming Flight For Sight trips, and what a disaster all the new guide dog regulations have created.

And you will not want to miss the very very special message we got, and it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian welcomes in Aaron Hale, a motivational speaker, extreme athlete, business entrepreneur, and a Blind Veteran.

We kick the interview off with Aaron telling us how he was blinded in combat as Aaron was in the army and an explosives expert. We find out what it feels like to approach an explosive device, and Aaron shares with us the incident that blinded him.

Aaron then walks us through his recovery process at Walter Reed, and how helpful his introduction to the Bard Talking Book Reader was. 

While rehabbing and instructing Aaron was introduced to Homes for Heroes.

Not one to sit around, as soon as Aaron got going on the iPhone, he began researching outdoor activities for the blind. He came across several blind people who have accomplished amazing tasks, and wanted to know how he could get involved with exploring the outdoors as someone who is blind. Which led to him climbing the Andes Mountains with a group of Wounded Veterans.

Aaron and Brian reminisce a little about some of their favorite shows growing up.

Aaron then tells us about when and how he lost his hearing, and what learning he would be deaf blind was like. Amazingly, Aaron all handled it phenomenally well thanks to his sense of humor.

Aaron then shares with us what takes place during the Cochlear implant process.

Next Aaron tells us a little about his time in the Navy as a cook, and how he eventually started a very successful fudge business called Extra Ordinary Delights.

Read about Aaron’s appearance on The Rachel Ray Show.

Aaron then tells us about his continuing involvement with Homes for Heroes, and the upcoming event he is currently training for the Badwater 135 where he will be raising money for Homes For Heroes. If you would like to support Aaron or Homes For Heroes please make a donation here.

We then discuss what the experience with Veteran Affairs has been like.

Make sure to check out Aaron’s podcast Point of Impact.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine sit down to recap all the announcements we got at WWDC23.

Even though it is almost an all Apple show, we kick things off discussing a very funny article about Zuckhead.

Unless you have been living underneath a rock, by the way who actually lives underneath a rock? The expression had to come from somewhere. By now you have probably heard that Apple announced Apple Vision Pro. We discuss all the juicy details, and I mean all of them. Unfortunately pre-order’s will not begin until early 2024, so start saving now because the glasses ain’t cheap.

You will control Apple Vision Pro with your eyes, hands, and voice, and we speculate how people who are blind might control the glasses without their eyes.

We then move on to iOS 17. We start off discussing the accessibility announcements that were announced on Global Accessibility Awareness Day. We then move on to the changes coming to phone, FaceTime, and Messages. Auto-Correct will be getting a long over due update, and dictation is supposed to be improved. A new Name Drop feature will make it easier to share contact info, and a new Journal app is coming to iOS.

Air Tag Sharing will now be possible.

The iPad will be getting new interactive widgets and a new locked screen. You will now be able to work with PDFs in the Notes app, and PDFs are supposed to be easier editable, but who knows about the accessibility of all of this.

Mac OS Sonoma is the name of the new Mac operating system. There is a new Mac Air 15 inch and two new Mac Studio’s coming. Web Apps are coming to the Mac along with Widgets on the Desktop. There is a new video conferencing also coming to the Mac. You will now be able to share your PassKeys and Passwords through iCloud, and profiles are coming to safari.

The Air Pod Pro 2’s will be getting two new listening modes a conversational mode and an  a new adaptive audio mode. Siri will now supposedly be able to switch Air Play devices with your voice. Oh yeah, I am sure this will work fantastically.

And of course we got the return of the Geek, my favorite Apple employee, Kevin Lynch, Mr. Apple Watch. Snoopy and Woodstock will be coming to the Apple Watch, but wait they don’t talk? 

Apple Health will now be able to help people with how they are feeling and depression through private surveys, and suggest advice.

  And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show demo. Brian is flying solo and doing a demo of some new features to the fantastic iOS downcast app. 

Brian talks about his history with the Downcast app and why people are flocking away from the Castro podcast player.

Brian starts the demo off exploring the Downcast podcast tab, and shows off some of the individual podcast customization settings. Brian walks you through the play screen settings including the different speed rates you can listen at.

He then jumps you in to the universal settings screen for Downcast.

Brian then walks you through how to create a continuous playlist with a queue and manual sort episodes to play in a unique order. He shows you how to move episodes in a playlist to set your preferences of a play order using the new action options. It is wicked cool.

You can download Downcast here.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We finally found Ed, he’s in Italy. Ed pops on to tell us why in the world he is in Italy. Also joining us on this episode from Italy is Amanda Maxson, a member of the New York City Blind Baseball team.

We start things off with Amanda explaining to us how she got involved with blind baseball, and what the American team is doing in Italy. Amanda tells us about her love of the 1990’s Yankees, and Brian couldn’t agree more. Amanda then fills us in on what the plan is for the New York City Baseball team once they return from training in Italy.

We then locate Ed, he’s been in Italy. Ed takes a seat in the interviewee chair to tell us about his Italian Baseball travels. He gives us an update on the progression getting Italian Baseball recognized as a Para-Olympic sport.

Ed tells us about the amazing Volunteers that have been helping out with the Blind Baseball team, and how traveling around Italy has been.

Ed tells us about the expansion of Italian Blind Baseball around the United States.

You can keep up with the All Blind Baseball USA Team on Facebook.

And it’s a light version of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian is flying solo but is joined by the developers, the C.E.O. Michael and C.T.O. Vincent of the fantastic new app OkO Co-Pilot For the Blind.

Brian kicks things off with finding out what the OkO app is all about, and how the app works. Vincent then tells us what the development process of the app was like.

We find out the meaning of the name OkO and you can find the app in the App Store here.

Michael tells us about the process they went through to make sure the app was safe before releasing it in the App Store, and then gives us a brief demo of some of the sounds you will hear in the app. . He then gives us 5 best practices to do while using the app for the best user experience.

Vincent then tells us about how much battery power the app consumes.

Michael explains to us where they see the future of the app going, and Vincent tells us about some upcoming updates to the app.

You can visit Ayes and Ono on their website. And you can visit them on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at Ayes_AI.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. On this episode it’s Brian and just his gal pals, Allison and Jeanine.

We start off discussing the in product for this summer, blow up hot tubs.

We then begin talking about what else, but A.I., and how in a few years we may be able to talk to and understand what animals are saying.

With everything being A.I. focused these days, is Apple being left behind?

WhatsApp may be leaving Britain due to a new Online Safety Bill.

Twitter has a new C.E.O. Does it matter at all?

Castro has had its share of backwards accessibility lately. One of us is done with the player, so we discuss what podcast players we are currently using.

Brian discusses his meeting with the OkO - A.I. Co-pilot For the Blind  developers.

Allison and Jeanine let us know if snooping on your significant others phone is ever ok.

Amazon is working on a new Rosey the Robot with A.I.

Even though none of us are Android users we discuss some of the announcements that came out of Google IO. We discuss that Google plans to super charge search and what the heck this even means. Is Google search reverting back to Ask Jeeves? Google announced the new Pixel Fold, only problem is it still runs Android. Google says it will be rolling out passkeys for a passwordless future. Google announced a re-entry in to the tablet market with the Google tablet and dock, does anyone care?

We do our annual look back on WWDC and discuss what we were excited about, and what we are actually still using that was announced last year. We start off discussing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro coming to the iPad, deal or no deal. We actually got new hardware at last year’s WWDC and two of us bought one of them. We discuss the new locked screen and the introduction of the dynamic island. They actually claimed at WWDC 22 that Siri was going to get smarter. Wow, they ruined it when iOS 16 launched. We also got the launch of the Apple Watch Ultra. The Mac was suppose to get improved continuity, we don’t think this worked out to well. Other things mentioned at last year’s WWDC StageTime, Free Form, App Windows, and PassKeys. Jeanine and Allison talk about how much they are enjoying Live text.

Brian then discusses the new keyboard he got the protoArc Foldable Multi-Device full keyboard with NumPad. Brian also got his first Apple Air Tag as they were on sale, but outside of traveling, he has no clue what to do with it.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian is flying solo as he welcomes back Mike Buckley, CEO of Be My Eyes.

With the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer rapidly evolving, Brian and Mike sat down to discuss how the app has been improving,, how the feedback from the closed beta group has been, and what’s up next for the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer.

We discuss the call to action that Elon Musk put out  calling for a delay with A.I. advancements beyond ChatGPT4.

Mike then tells us how the Corporate Connection side of Be My Eyes will co-exist with the Virtual Volunteer as they open the beta to some of Be my Eyes corporate partners. Mike gives us a glimpse about how the future of Be my Eyes, the Virtual Volunteer, and Customer service may all work together.

To keep up with the latest developments of everything Be My eyes make sure to visit their website.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Allison, Brian, and Ed gather around the campfire to discuss the latest tech topics. How odd as a lot of it has to do with A.I.

It is being reported that some visually impaired iOS 16.4.1 are having only 30 days in every month. While we could not reproduce this issue we thought it was still worth talking about.

We then dive in to all the hot A.I. topics. We start off discussing the Godfather of Google A.I. leaving the company to warn the world about the perils of artificial intelligence. Next we discuss the NBC Nightly News segment that featured Brian and the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer. Microsoft has announced that they are working on a privacy focused version of ChatGPT.

Would you want or trust an A.I. powered Guide Dog out of China?

Criminals are now using Voice Cloning to terrify and scam people. What a world.

With WWDC a month away we figured it was time to discuss some of the rumors we have been hearing about iOS 17.

MuskButt has now owned Twitter for about six months. It has been one heck of a rollercoaster at the Blue Bird. If you have been randomly getting locked out of Twitter account, you are not alone. It’s the end of Twitter Auto-Sharing, or is it?

If Mastodon is not for you, maybe the future BlueSky could be your social network choice.

We then discuss dealing with other health issues on top of blindness and how difficult an additional injury or health situation can be. Have you heard of Transabled?

Amazon launched a new feature called Dialogue Boost, just don’t plan on using it if you like Audio Description.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian and Ed welcome fellow podcaster Shaun Preece to the show for another Trendsetters episode.

We start off learning how Shaun went blind and how his journey to Blind Tech Podcaster God began. Next we dive in to Shaun’s first experiences with assistive technology.

Shaun then hits us with a classic #EBB Embarrassally Blind Blunder  story.

Next we find out why Shaun prefers the PC and Jaws over the Mac and VoiceOver.

As a fellow podcaster first on RNIB Tech Talk and now on AMI’s Double Tap, we find out how Shaun began his journey as a podcaster. We ask what it is like working with Steven Scott? And we find out the technology used to record and produce Double Tap. The secret is now out! We also discuss the downside of podcasting, the criticism. Next up we find out what the deal is with Shaun of the Shed.

We then find out Shaun’s opinion about the state of assistive technology in 2023.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as the whole gang is back together for the first time in awhile. We allow you behind the curtain as we leave in some of our pre-show recording as we discuss food delivery services and tipping.

Allison then hits us with an absolute shocker during our intros.

Once we finally get going we start off discussing the strange story where in Houston Apple’s Find My keeps sending people to the same dudes house.

Next up we discuss Brian discussing the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer beta on NPR. Followed by the article about MuskButt and several other people in the technology field calling for a slow down of advancements in A.I. 

While the big announcement came after we recorded as HBOMax and Discovery will launch as just Max on May 23rd, we wonder if we are panicking to be worried about the apps accessibility and audio description continuing in the new app. Here are all the big announcements.

The FBI has once again warned the public not to use public charging stations for fear of juice jacking. Who the heck knew it was called juice jacking?

Brian has finally installed Mac OS Ventura on his main 2020 iMac so we discuss our thoughts of how VoiceOver is running on Mac OS 13.3. We then discuss the VoiceOver and Siri improvements that showed up in iOS 16.4.

We then discuss how badly the ADA is in need of a digital update. We discuss some of the fun we have each had recently trying to use government websites.

This then leads us to a discussion about whether or not disabled people can expect to have privacy anymore if they want access to information.

We then discuss the recent NY Times article called I Went Blind and I Found It Strangely Exhilarating. Because the Times is behind the paywall we could not post a link to this article, but if you Google The NY Times and Found Going Blind Exhilarating you can get access to the article.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian and Ed welcome in Sam Nikmanesh  to discuss a story that is more harrowing than any other   story we have ever discussed on the show.

We start off finding out from Sam what it is like to start going blind while living in Iran, and what kind of services there are for people in Iran who are blind. 

Sam tells us about her recent travels from her home in Vancouver to Turkey  with her Guide Dog Lemon and the misadventures that ensued. The flight there started out well, but getting any place once she arrived in Turkey was when the nightmare began.

Sam and Lemon were constantly encountering wild dogs while in Turkey, but the real scary part of her trip began when she arrived at the airport to continue her trip to England. You will not believe her story about how she was treated by Turkish airlines, and the ordeal she went through to get home.

Sam explains to us how reaching out to Guiding Eyes  For the Blind and That Real Blind Tech show was so helpful in getting her home.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine get together for a different kind of conversation, not a tech conversation but rather a discussion about Blind Justice.

We start off with Brian’s latest Uber guide dog refusal experience. Allison and Jeanine chime in with their most recent Uber refusals due to traveling with a guide dog. Brian then tells about starting his trip with a refusal and ending it with a refusal in the cab line at LaGuardia.

Brian then talks about some of the fun guide dog adventures and misadventures he had on his recent cruise.

Since we are talking guide dog refusal stories we then revisit Brian’s refusal to a nutritionists office from last year and whatever happened to the complaint he filed.

Brian then talks about his disastrous experience going through TSA at the Miami International Airport.

We then shift focus to talking about our most embarrassing stories with our guide dogs. If you want to catch Brian on Top Gear USA you can view it here sorry no Nash peeing in this clip or audio description. Next we discuss the most annoying thing someone has done to us or said to us about our guide dogs. Lastly we discuss the strangest or funniest thing someone has said to us about our dog.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It is an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian is flying solo as Host, and is joined by Hans Jorgen Wiberg, Founder of Be My Eyes  and Mike Buckley CEO, Be My Eyes.

We start off finding out how the connection with Be My Eyes and Open AI originated. We find out what some early beta testers are saying about the Virtual Volunteer experience.

We discuss what seems like endless possibilities for the early stages of the Virtual Volunteer. We discuss the closed beta and when people may expect the Virtual Volunteer to come to a public beta.

Hans then explains how the Virtual Volunteer will co-exist with contacting a sighted volunteer.

Currently, you can sign up to be alerted about the beta for the Virtual Volunteer in the Be My Eyes app. You can keep up with all things Be My Eyes on their website and on Twitter.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, Jeanine, and Bryan Wolynski get together to discuss the latest tech news and recap this year’s CSUN Conference.

We kick things off discussing Senator Markey’s call for Elon Musk to bring back Twitter’s accessibility team.

Next we discuss the huge announcement out of Be My Eyes that they are using Chat GPT4 to help create an all new Virtual Volunteer.

Chat GPT4 has been released with a lot of improvements. And we discuss the former Siri Engineer who explains why Siri sucks so bad.

We then continue our conversation from two episodes ago about Eleven Labs Voice Cloning, and Jeanine got very creative with it.

Apple is specifically working on a AR/VR headset to help people with vision issues.

Both Bryan Wolynski and Jeanine attended this year’s CSUN, we have them recap the most interesting things they saw and heard at this year’s conference. They tell us about this year’s turnout compared to the past couple of years. Jeanine gives us some ideas that CSUN could adopt to make the conference even more inclusive. Bryan then tells us about his presentation at CSUN about Assistive Technology Interventions  and the research he has been conducting. And we hear about some of the more interesting topics of conversations that were being discussed at CSUN.

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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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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.

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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.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join Brian and Ed as they sit down with Blake Steinecke, Growth Manager and Luke Simianer, CEO of Clusiv.

We start off with Luke explaining to us what Clusiv is all about and how the company got its start. We then get a little background on Blake and find out what he does as the Growth Manager at Clusiv.

Luke then explains to us how they design the curriculumn at Clusiv.

We then find out what barriers Clusiv faces from the state agencies, and what some of their most popular training modules are about.

We then discuss how Clusiv may be utilized at companies with inaccessible propriety software.

Luke then fills us in on what is on the road map for Clusiv, and whether or not Clusiv training will eventually make its way to the Mac.

Luke then explains to us what the Clusiv Lifetime of Learning Promise is all about.

Clusiv is on iOS, and we find out what you can do on the iOS app.

To learn more about Clusiv please visit there website.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with a fully over packed studio as the entire gang of Allison, Brian, Ed, and Jeanine are all together for the first time in 2023.

We start off discussing the price changes coming to the Envision Glasses. Jeanine then fills us in about the latest announcement coming out of Aira about extra minutes and the special that will continue to run to the end of February. And it’s not just the assistive tech companies that are raising prices, as we discuss the announcement out of Amazon that Amazon Fresh groceries are now going to have different fee levels.

We then discuss the latest update to SeeingAI and Jeanine lets us know about something pretty cool that could be happening.

You may have wondered why Apple doesn’t make AirTags for dogs, well this is why.

Paramount Plus will be merging with Showtime in the coming months. And what in the world is Netflix doing about cracking down on those darn password sharers?

Did you know that supposedly you can track a flight on your iPhone? Of course no clue how well this feature works with VoiceOver. And future iPhones may be able to listen to your chewing and scold you about what you are eating. Yikes.

Who knew that your A Lady echo and dots could have a shelf life.

Ed then gives us a review of the Samsung screen reader built in to most new Samsung TVs.

We then discuss the new products Apple announced the M2 Mac mini, M2 Mac Book Pros, and the new HomePod biggie.

Next we discuss online signature services and compare the accessibility of DocuSign, Dropbox Signature, and Adobe Sign. And why the heck do we still need a signature in the year 2023?

And it’s an extended What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Ed and Brian welcome Nefertiti Matos Olivares to the show. Not only is Nefertiti a fellow blind New Yorker, she works in one of our favorite industries, Audio Description.

We start off discussing one of the many hats Nefertiti wears, that of a Cultural Accessibility Consultant, and find out what the role involves. Nefertiti then tells us about a few of the museums in New York City that the blind and visually impaired can go to and put their hands on some of the exhibits.

Nefertiti then gives us a little of her background story about her vision loss, and early life.

Next we discuss Nefertiti’s time working at the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. And it’s ironic timing as Brian will be leading an iOS Question and Answer this Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 2pm Eastern time. If you would like to attend you can join here.

We then dive in to how Nefertiti got in to working in Audio Description Narration. We find out what recording that first Audio Described track was like, and how she came up with her workflow. We find out how someone builds a career in Audio Description Narration.

Nefertiti then tells us about her role as a Workflow Manager for Quality and Inclusion for Descriptive Video Works.

Which leads us to discussing the Social Audio Description collective, and what their goals are.

We then discuss the ACB’s Audio Description Awards which Nefertiti was the Co-Host for, and actually the Audio Description Narrator live from 30 Rock in NYC.

After a little Will Smith fun, we discuss more of Nefertiti’s current work at Descriptive Video Works.

Nefertiti then explains what ADForward is, and surprise surprise we are on their Mastodon server. We then find out a little about Mastodon as the newish or new to us social network makes our heads want to spin.

And of course it is more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

You can keep up with all things Nefertiti on Twitter  and Linkedin.

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It is an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed are joined by Dr. Bryan Wolynski, CTO Lighthouse Guild to discuss this year’s CES conference that Bryan attended in Las Vegas.

We start the show discussing an Australian visually impaired woman being refused a drink at an Australian hotel. This leads to a conversation about why the general public treats people differently that use a white cane compared to walking with a guide dog.

Navilens is partnering with Kellogg to bring accessibility to its cereal boxes.

Linkedin has announced a bunch of accessibility improvements coming in 2023. We discuss the benefits of being on Linkedin, and this leads to a conversation of Dr. Bryan using VoiceOver on his phone for two weeks.

We then briefly discuss the new Book Share app  and our thoughts of it.

Twitter not surprisingly have interrupted service on some third party Twitter clients, notably Twitterrific and Tweet Bot. The MuskButt is at it again.

We then dive in to why Bryan is here, and start discussing his experience and what he saw of interest at this year’s CES. Brian with a capital B and lower case I had a brain fart about what CES stands for.

Bryan tells us about the expanding landscape at CES for assistive technology, and we find out if CES will ever grow in to a competitor of CSUN.

Wearables are all the rage these days so we discuss the smart glass technology that Bryan got to check out at CES. Brian got his hands on a pair of the Celeste Glasses which we had their Developers on a few shows ago to discuss. 

Next up we discuss autonomous vehicles. They are coming and there is nothing you can do to stop it! And forget about self driving cars, what about a flying car?

We then discuss some of the stranger things that were at CES.

Bryan then tells us about some of the sessions he attended at CES.

And it would not be 2023 if we didn’t discuss Matter.

And to hear more about Bryan’s adventures at this year’s CES make sure to tune in to his Facebook Live this Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 3pm Eastern time on the Lighthouse Guild’s Facebook page.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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We then touch on a few of the main stream tech items Bryan got to check out.

It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Allison are joined by friend of the podcast David Goldstein to discuss the new price plans announced by Aira today. 

Allison, Brian and David discuss their first thoughts after reading about the new price plans, retail prices, and having to call customer care to find out what your price plan will be.

Next Brian welcomes in Troy Otillio, CEO of Aira, and Jeanine Stanley Aira’s Social Media Manager.

Troy and Jeanine walk Brian through the new pricing structure, what retail prices are  why the need to post the retail prices on Aira’s website, and why the need to call customer care to find out more information about individual pricing plans.

If you alarmingly reacted to all of this information then you will definitely want to hear what Troy and Jeanine have to say, as Brian was very relieved after speaking to both of them.

Remember you can contact Aira Customer Care directly through the Aira app or by calling 1-800-835-1934  6am PST to 6pm PST, or contact them by email at [email protected].

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Kicking off the New Year, Brian and Ed welcome in Dr. Joel Snyder, from Audio Description associates and the Founder of the Audio Description Project.

We start the interview  finding out how Joel started working in audio description. Joel explains what the early days of audio description was like including how difficult it was to convey what audio description actually was when people had no clue what it was.

We find out that a certain somebody who the Force is strong in is aware of audio description.

Joel walks us through some of the work he has done with museums to make the museums an accessible experience to the blind.

We then discuss how the initial work flows to deciding what would and would not work for audio description came about, and how audio description has changed over the past several decades. We discuss what audio description was like in the VHS and DVD days.

We then find out what Joel’s goals were when he founded the Audio Description Project.

we discuss how different describing a museum tour is compared to film and TV, and how different describing a live event is compared to pre-recorded. We then discuss how amazing most Audio Described content is on the streaming services. 

We then discuss Joel’s book Audio Description, The Visual Made Verbal.

The conversation then moves to the networks, Congress requiring a minimum number of described hours, and the job the networks are currently doing with audio description. 

It would not be an interview about audio description if we did not discuss the controversial topic of text to speech audio description. Which then turns us to the topic of when content switches from one streaming platform to another, why doesn’t the audio described tracks follow with it.

We wrap up discussing methods of streaming audio described content to your phone and Spectrum Access.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join us as Brian sits down with Shush Mittal and Smit Patel the creators and developers behind the upcoming Celeste Smart Glasses coming in 2023.

Brian is very excited for the release of these smart glasses that have partnered with Seeing AI. Shush starts off describing what the Celeste Smart Glasses will be able to do and tells us about how the guys came up with the concept of the glasses.

The guys explain what the main differences are between the Celeste Frames and the Envision AI glasses. And we talk about their very affordable price point of $700 US.

We then discuss the question on everyone’s mind, how will people be able to see what I am seeing?

To make a deposit so you can be among the first people to receive the celeste Smart Glasses please visit here, and to learn more about the glasses click here.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show.

The gang starts off discussing the announcement that Microsoft Soundscape will be going bye bye in 2023. We then discuss what our go to GPS app will be.

These people took crash detection to a whole new level!

If you had smart toilet on your holiday wish list, it may be waiting for you underneath your tree.

And Brian thought he had it bad for a bit with his Door Dash deliveries. Wait until you hear about this guy and his issue with an Amazon delivery.

We then discuss Sight Tech Global, and why you may want to wait if you have not yet seen any of the videos from this year’s conference. Next up is the ACB  2022 Audio Description Gala which featured several interesting people including a clip of the Yahoo Mini Documentary The All Blind Fantasy Football League.

Will app side loading be coming to the iPhone and will it be a disaster for accessibility?

Next it is on to the latest with Twitter because Elon be flipping back and forth more times than a fat man in a water bed. Is MuskButt stepping down as CEO of Twitter? And because we can do it to, we held our first ever poll on Twitter. And finally MuskButt decided to kill Twitter Audio Spaces.

It’s that time of year, so we thought we would have a little conversation about the difficulties and fun that comes with being blind at a holiday party.

And it is more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We gathered Allison, Brian and Ed to talk about the latest tech news going around.

We start off discussing a tweet about our last episode, And Everything. Drink!

You may have heard that Aira will be under going some changes. We discuss what has been announced so far.

Menus4All has launched as a paid subscription app, will you be getting it?

If you live in New York City and are searching for a job, maybe this one is for you.

Airplane mode to become a thing of the past as early as next year in the EU.

We then discuss Ed’s new product and something that Allison is shockingly selling, what could it be?

Next we discuss Mastodon, and is it worth your time?

With the end of the year here we thought it would be a good time to discuss the accessibility of our financial and medical applications and websites.

Next we turn our attention to those pesky Windows and Jaws updates, as Brian had a fun experience after not turning his PC on for a few months.

Ed then had a little bit different of a dinner one night that he tells us all about.

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

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, and it is amazing how often podcasts imitate life. On our last episode we discussed the blind woman who was not allowed on an Air Canada flight with her guide dog. Well, Brian just was extremely hassled by JetBlue when checking in for his most recent flight about his guide dog and new policies that JetBlue has initiated for people traveling with guide dogs. Amazingly, it is not JetBlue’s responsibility to alert you of these new regulations, you are just suppose to magically know them on your own. Ed and Brian discuss this experience before the gals jump on. Brian and Ed discuss how airlines are utterly failing people with disabilities.

We briefly discuss the latest people fleeing Twitter, and Brian mentions a little bit about the upcoming Sight Tech Global which you can register to virtually attend for free here.

We then move on to discussing iOS 16 and the new feature that allows you to control your iPhone from your Apple Watch and vice versa. Next we discuss iOS 16.2 and the report that there will be a new accessibility mode introduced. Is that a good thing?

With the holidays here we thought we should discuss what all of us pack in our tech go gear. Not to worry no clothes discussed here, just tech stuff. Sorry no time to put the products discussed in the show notes with links as Brian has been on a time crunch and wanted to get the episode out. If you are interested in a product we discussed and you cannot find it on Amazon, drop us an email and we will find the link for you.

We then discuss Brian’s recent visit to the eye doctor and try and understand how in the world people who work at a world renown eye hospital can be so utterly clueless when it comes to helping guide a blind person around.

No surprise, as a couple of Senators have once again drawn up a bill requiring all websites and mobile applications to be fully accessible.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. The entire gang is here in their lair of choice.

We start off discussing the upcoming Sight Tech Global, as Brian will be the Host of this year’s Virtual Conference which you can register for free to attend here.

Air Canada is the latest airline to make a blind person’s life absolutely miserable while traveling with their guide dog. Will the airlines ever get it?

It happened a week ago, but we dive in to the blindness communities reaction to the entire accessibility team being laid off at Twitter. Allison educates us a little about the new social media craze of Mastodon. Or as the kids are calling it, the new Twitter. And finally just when you think things couldn’t get any worse at Twitter Elon Musk goes all nuclear. And because we doubt this will be the last we talk about Elon Musk, we try and decide on a nickname for Elon Musk moving forward.

And because Zuckhead couldn’t take Twitter getting all the press, Facebook/Meta decided to fire 11,000 employees, and did it by email. How classy!

Out of nowhere Amazon announced they are putting the A Lady under a performance review, which made us wonder, could the A Lady have peeked at Amazon?

We have screamed about our frustration for quite awhile about our devices and Bluetooth connectivity, so it is great to see the mainstream is getting on board with this frustration. Here are some basic tips that could help improve your bluetooth connectivity.

After a discussion about an injury a friend of the podcast had, we dive in to the good and bad we have been experiencing on Mac OS Ventura.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in friend of the podcast David Goldstein to the podcast.

David just popped in to NYC to join Brian and Ed at Laugh For Sight at Gotham Comedy Club on October 24th, so we thought we would have David on to help us recap the long awaited return of Laugh For Sight. This year’s benefit was absolutely epic and featured Legendary Comedian Robert Klein, Aaron Berg, Ophira Eisenberg, Joe Derosa, Andy Fiori, Boris Khaykin, along with Host and Friend of the podcast Brian Mccarthy. Oh yeah, and our pal Jim Gaffigan popped in to do a set. This year’s benefit was also the Inaugural What the F*ck Have the Blind Ever Done For Me Laugh For Sight Lifetime Appreciation Awards. Recipients included Robert Klein, Chris Mazzilli Owner Gotham Comedy Club, Gilbert Gottfried, and Larry Goldberg. The idea of the award is to merge the comedy world with blind tech, and who better to do that then friend of the podcast, Larry Goldberg.

After many mentions on this show during a specific segment of the show, Apple is finally redesigning iCloud.com. The beta which you can now visit is surprisingly off to a much improved start.

We continue on the positive with a fantastic story about a developer that gets accessibility.

The streaming wars are here, and prices are going up everywhere. Will you continue to stream or cut the stream? We discuss which services we are subscribed to, and mass confusion sets in. We then speculate on how the Netflix password crackdown will work as it will kicking in come January.

Even though it was announced over a week ago, we briefly discuss the new iPads launched by apple because we are a blind tech show after all. Next we  discuss Mac OS Ventura and how it is currently working, or not working with VoiceOver. And finally it is on to our thoughts about iOS 16.1. The iPhone 14 just came out, so it’s the perfect time for iPhone 15 rumors.

You are not alone if you think you have been seeing just a few ads for gambling in the App Store. And you thought political ads were annoying enough, could you soon be seeing gambling on political race ads?

And has Apple finally turned in to Robert deNiro from Goodfellas with their new in app purchase ad policy?

We then discuss the JackPocket app, a app to buy lottery tickets, which is surprisingly fully accessible with VoiceOver.

With the end of the year creeping up on us, we figured it would be a good time to go around and check out what all of our go to devices and apps were at the end of 2022.

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Now that we have gotten past our massive 100th episode celebration, it is back to podcasting as the entire That Real Blind Tech Show gang gets together to recap the latest tech news.

We start off with a mention that the All Blind Fantasy Football League Mini Documentary has an imdb page.

We start off with a congratulations as one of us lives in the filthiest talking city in the world. And its not NYC!

Wasn’t the whole point of streaming no ads? Well get ready for ads coming to AppleTV. Is anyone surprised that Apple’s crash detection is not working as it is suppose to?

Big Googlie Eyes may save pedestrians from silent vehicles, but what about us blind peeps?

Medical experts say it is healthy for you to disconnect from your phone. Is it possible for blind peeps to disconnect?

Google IO featured Molly Burke, but seriously selfies? We then discuss the newly announce Pixel 7 phones. Next up was the Google Pixel Watch, not quite ready for prime time. And shockingly Google Face Recognition is very far from secure. On the plus side all Google devices will be getting new TTS voices in the coming weeks.

Samsung and Google showed off how their devices will interact once the Matter Standard has launched. It’s going to be pretty cool.

Facebook hosted meta Connect all about VR and AR, but will any of this tech be useful to the blind? Facebook launched the MetaQuest Pro, but what is it and who is it for? Zuckhead says the Metaverse should be open to everyone, but read closer. Meta also announced future wristbands which would allow you to control things in the Metaverse with muscle movement.

Microsoft held an event in which they announced that Apple will be bringing more services to their devices. Of course, the accessibility of them is in question. Microsoft then announced three new Surface devices with one of them starting at the low low price of $4300.

Did you notice that another Amazon Prime Day came and went?

And it is more Voicemails, What’s Pissing Off Brian, and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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We begin the final part of our massive 100th episode clip show celebration with the gang styling and freestylng on Episode 71.

With the huge success of the NumPad Commander a listener requested a demo of the keyboard commander which arrived on episode 72.

Episode 74 was our attempt of multiple host interviewing multiple guests about this year’s CSUn, and the new tech center at the Lighthouse Guild, and also saw the return of friend of the podcast, Dr. Bryan Wolynski.

Episode 75 brought Aira CEO Troy Etillio and Jeanine Stanley wearing her Aira hat to the show.

Episode 76 brought Deque Systems Jon Buonaspina to the show.

Episode 77 brought Ukrainian Helger Kellanstonian to the show. Yes, another April something episode. Additionally, episode 77 brought TJ Meloy back to the show as TJ, Allison, and Brian all had recently picked up Android devices, and talked a little Talk Back and their initial thoughts. Full disclaimer, none of us are still using our Android phones now.

Episode 78 was another demo episode as Brian did a demo of the fantastic item chooser on the Mac along with a demo of the improved dictation.

Episode 80 brought Liz Gutman to the show, Head Writer of Audio Description for IDC.

Episode 81 brought YouTube’s The Blind Life Sam Seavey to the show.

Episode 83 brought the recently rewired not retired Larry Goldberg formerly of Yahoo to the podcast.

Episode 84 brought friend of the podcast Joe Steinkamp back for a recap of Google IO.

Episode 85 had us venture a little out of the tech arena and ask the question, do blind people dream?

Episode 86 was our annual review of WWDC, and we were so thrilled and excited as the Geek was back for Apple Watch.

Episode 87 brought the CEO of the Miami Lighthouse, Virginia Jaco back to the show along with Jorge Hernandez.

Episode 88 was a demo of how to transfer music playlists  from one streaming platform to another.

Episode 90 was our demo of the Echo Frames and some big announcements from Aira.

Episode 91 was another episode in our Trendsetters series with PodFather Rodney Edgar.

Episode 92 was our yearly recap of the NFB’s resolutions.

Episode 93 brought friend of the podcast, member of The All Blind Football League, and designer of our website www.blindtechshow.com, David Goldstein to the show.

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We start off our 100th Anniversary Episode part 4 Clip show with the developer of AirBuddy Guide Rambo.

Episode 51 brought the Fantastic Foursome all together on the same episode for the first time with Allison, Brian, Ed, and jeanine for what do you expect but an Apple event recap.

Episode 52 brought skateboarder Justin Bishop to the show.

Episode 54 brought us therapist and Author Rebecca Alexander and Inspiration porn.

Episode 55 brought former guest Joe Steinkamp in as a co-host to discuss a little Microsoft news.

We had a bunch of Apple announcements which then led up to Episode 57 where we spoke with Michael Kalberer.

Episode 58 was our first mention of The Yahoo Mini-Documentary The All Blind Football League that we had filmed a few months ago, and was also TJ Meloy’s first appearance on the show. And Episode 59 brought the entire cast of the Yahoo All blind Fantasy Football league and the principles at Yahoo behind the project to the show.

Episode 61 was our tremendously popular demo of the powerful NumPad Commander for the Mac.

Episode 62 brought blind developer and space man Sina Bahram to the show.

Episode 63 was a special end of the year Festival What’s Pissing Off Brian Now. Because what says anger more than the holidays?

Episode 64 brought fellow podcaster and friend of the show Steven Scott on for a chat about the new show he was launching, Blind Guy Talks Tech.

Episode 65 brought Accessibility Evangelist Samuel Proulx from Fable to the show.

On Episode 66 we began to see the light out of the pandemic and the virtual studios became That Real Blind Tech Show Lairs.

Episode 67 brought us Eric Wickstrom from IDC for a conversation about audio description.

Episode 68 was a demo of the Spectrum Cable App with Cloud DVR.

Episode 69 brought all of us together for our Mac versus PC Smack down.

Episode 70 was a demo of the fantastic Mac mail client and a demo of what a disaster iCloud.com still is with VoiceOver.

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Welcome to part three of the That Real Blind Tech show 100th Episode clip show.

We start off at episode 31, which was an absolutely classic recording.

Episode 32 brought in comedian friend and former Warm Up Comedian at The Late Show with David Letterman, Eddie Brill.

Episode 33 brought us the first Brian flying solo episode and our first demo which was Amazon Prime and Audio Description.

Episode 34 was the first of our only two part episode as it brought Legendary Comedian and Laugh For Sight Headmaster Robert Klein.

Episode 35 brought us our fill in co-Host Jeanine Stanley. She filled in for Allison and the chemistry was pretty good so we kept her around.

Episode 36 was our conclusion of our very special two part episode with Robert Klein.

Episode 37 brought us the first trifecta pairing of Allison, Brian and Jeanine for an Apple recap. However, more importantly, Episode 37 brought us the new That Real Blind Tech Show theme music produced by our good friend Patrick Lafayette.

Episode 38 and 39 brought us some demos by Brian, the first was how to turn off Amazon Sidewalk and the next was the Ultimate Sonos Demo.

Episode 41 brought us our first review of a Microsoft Keynote.

Episode 42 brought us another in our Trendsetters series as we welcomed David Woodbridge to the show.

Episode 43 was another super cool super solo demo by Brian, this time on HBOMax and the Apple TV app which makes fantastic use of the now playing list for all your services except Netflix.

Episode 44 and 45 were our recaps of the NFB and ACB virtual Conferences.

Episode 46 brought us Carl Richardson from the Audio Description Project.

Episodes 47 and 48 brought us demos of the Yahoo Fantasy app and its amazing track record of accessibility and the Underdog Fantasy app.

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It’s a continuation celebration for our 100th episode, as we present you with The Clip Show Part Two.

This episode starts off at the beginning of 2021, as we welcome our good friend Allison Meloy full time to the podcast. Allison was a regular guest on iAccessVO and joined us here regularly starting with episode 14.

Our next few guests included Greg Stilson from The American Printing House for the Blind, Steve Ewell from The Consumer Technology Association, and Shaun Eli  comedian friend of Brian’s who worked very hard to make his website fully accessible. It was Episode 17, wow, not sure what was going on with our audio on this episode, as it was absolute crap. Episode 17 was also the beginning of Brian introducing all those fun movie clips that 95% of the listeners enjoy. We did get one email from a listener who absolutely hates them.

Episode 18 brought Jayme Schwartz from Aftershockz to the show. Episode 19 was back to our Trailblazers series with Ricky Enter and friend of the show Joe SteinKamp. Episode 21 was the web developer of Ottoneu Fantasy sports, Nav shah.

It was episode 22 that saw friend of the podcast Dr. Bryan Wolynski make his first appearance on the podcast. Episode 23 brought us Virginia Jack, CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for a conversation about web accessibility.

Episode 25 brought us our first fun with an April fools episode, as blind Olympian Henry McKeller joined the show.

Episode 26 brought over the man you have to blame if you hate Brian’s editing of movie clips, Derek Lane. And staying on our sound trip, Episode 27 brought us Jim Reekes the original creator of the Mac start up chime and the iPhone camera click sound.

Episode 28 brought us Comedian friend Stacey Prussman who at the time was running for Mayor of New York City. She did not win, but that was not our fault.

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Join us for a stroll down memory lane. In honor of the 100th episode of That Real Blind Tech show, it is our absolutely epic five part clip show.

You will laugh, you will cry, you will learn, ok, so maybe there will be no crying, but we can guarantee a few laughs along this stroll down memory lane.

The clip show starts off with Brian babbling on about what the new show will be, then Ed pops in as Brian quickly realized he is better with Ed then without him. Our first few guests you hear include David Kingsbury author of several books helping the blind with PC production, Karen Kramer an O and M specialist with pandemic living advice, Kisiah Timmons from the Yahoo Fantasy accessibility team, and Jeanine Stanley from Aira and eventually also from That Real Blind Tech show.

The next few guests on the show included Dr. Cal Roberts, CEO of the Lighthouse Guild in NYC, our Trailblazers series kicked off with Holly Anderson and Darcy Bernard, and we welcomed in at the end of 2020, our very good friend Brian McCarthy to close out the year, and wrap up the first five months of That Real Blind Tech show.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We are here primarily this episode to discuss iOS 16.0.2 and new Apple products. It is an Ed less and Jeanine less show as TJ Meloy joined Brian and Allison in their isolated lairs to discuss our new products and thoughts.

We start off discussing the 40 year anniversary of the first emoji being sent and how that day began the descent of modern civilization.

Is anyone surprised or shocked at the lengths Facebook is going to to keep on tracking all of us? Not only are they going around Apple’s privacy road blocks, Facebook is now breaking state and federal law to track all of us.

If you are a gmail user, get ready to have your inbox flooded by unwanted messages from politicians.

We’re all getting another Amazon Prime Day that no one asked for on October 11th and 12th. Does anyone care?

We then dive in to discussing iOS 16.0.2, starting out wondering how in the world Apple could release an operating system that left some VoiceOver users in the dark. Next we discuss focuses and under settings the missing on/off toggle for focuses. We then bring up the app switcher issue some VoiceOver users have been having and try and figure out who realized that if you turn inverted colors off, the app switcher should behave normally. We then get Brian’s F*ck me moment of iOS 16, which is a bad one. Notifications are then discussed and. Door detection is here, door detection is here, just don’t try using it at night.

If you do not want to experience crash detection first hand to find out if it works, definitely check out this YouTube video of some guys who tested it out for all of man kind.

And if you are noticing a battery drain on your phone you may want to consider turning off haptic keyboard.

If you have been getting bombarded with stupid requests asking are you sure you want to paste this here, not to worry those idiotic notifications will be going away in iOS 16.1.

We got new products, we got new products. Allison and TJ tell us about the new iPhone 14’s they are rocking with. We then get Allison and TJ’s thoughts on the locked screen new island. After our visit to the island we move on further down discussing the new Lock Screen. Allison and TJ enlighten us to the new start up and shut down chimes specifically only on the 14 models.

After the new phones, we discuss our new watches as Allison has the new Watch Series 8 and Brian went Mac Daddy with the new Watch Ultra. We talk about the on-screen typing experience, the new action button on the Ultra watch, L5 GPS and using GPS on the watch. We discuss which complications we enjoy using.

And finally all three of us discuss our experience with the new Air Pod Pro Two’s.

We then listen to a Voicemail and an email we received.

Brian then plugs the upcoming Laugh For Sight at Gotham Comedy Club on Monday, October 24th, and tickets can be purchased here.

And it’s a little bit of a lengthy What’s Pissing Off Brian, and we get an appearance of What’s Pissing Off Allison, and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the entire gang is here to discuss and recap in our own way the Apple Far Out event.

We start off discussing the name of the event and the new Apple emergency S.O.S. for when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere or Ohio. We discuss our issues getting the event to play in Apple TV, and the opening video to the event.

We then get our iOS 16 beta testers opinion of whether or not you should install iOS 16 on the September 12th release date.

We discuss Apple moving to eSim iPhones only in the United States.

Our watch coverage begins with us discussing an odd arrival time for those it’s time to stand notifications and then gets in to the always on display. The ladies then chime in about the new ovulation tracking coming to the new watches.

We get a little sidetracked with the innuendos, but hey that’s what you tune in for. After Giggles gets it all out, we discuss the new Watch SE2. It’s then on to the new Apple Watch Ultra, and one of us has already placed an order for it.

Next up we discuss the new Air Pod Pros with double the noise reduction. And on Apple announcement day, Bose attempted to steal some of Apple’s thunder by announcing their new Quiet comfort Two ear buds.

Apple announced four new iPhones starting out with the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus but these phones will be running last years chip. The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max will introduce the new dynamic island on the Lock Screen. We are quite curious how all of this will work with VoiceOver. Even though most blind peeps feel blah blah when Apple discusses the camera improvements. We discuss what the improvements mean for text scanning applications and Aira.

And finally we play some messages and emails we have received recently. We promise to get better at playing and reading your emails on future shows. You can call us at 929-367-1005 and tell us what you like, don’t like, agree with, or want to hear us talk about. Or email us in at [email protected]. And as long as Brian gets his head out of his ass and remembers to put the emails and Voicemails in the outline, we will get to them.

And of course it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading!

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The gang is back together again after Ed’s European Vacation.

We kick things off discussing the new alliance between Aira and Envision glasses. Does this change anything for you?

Twitter because it doesn’t know what it wants to be is getting in to podcasts now.

Tesla wants videos of its self driving technology running over dummies of children taken down. Will negative feedback slow us blind peeps from eventually getting behind the wheel?

We are big fans of the Sonos speakers, and rumor has it that their next gen speakers will have directional audio.

We mourn our friends Blind Guy Talks Tech as they transition to Double Tap fully. We have some advice for Steven, please for the love of all that’s holy stop attempting to do a New York accent!

We then start discussing how close we are to the release of iOS 16 and all the VoiceOver issues we are still hearing about is quite troubling.

We then catch up with Ed and review his trip to England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, and find all about the World Blind Baseball Tournament he participated in.

After we examine Amazon’s downward spiral with accessibility across all of their apps. And one of us is just absolutely tired and worn out of reporting nonstop accessibility issues.

And it’s a very special What’s Pissing Off Brian Now as we also get the first ever What’s Pissing Off Ed, and it is a can’t miss that will make you so so so mad!

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

Our apologies to those of you who have emailed us in and left voicemails, we plan to get to them on the next show, blame Ed for the long ass recap of his vacation as we ran a little long.

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It’s a packed again That Real Blind Tech Show lair as we dive in to the American Council of the Blind’s recently released 2022 resolutions. And are we really positive that it is not the American Council For the Blind? And if so, why not?

Some of the jokes are a continuation of our last episode as we recorded both of them together but after an epic historically long recording session, we broke it up in to two episodes. So if you are wondering why we find beeping getting faster and faster kind of sexual, then go listen to the last episode to find out why door detection is just so damn sexy!

You will not want to miss an absolutely classic experience that happened with an Air Pod while recording this episode. Strange stuff. And it was so classic it happened twice, and we left almost all of it in for your enjoyment as it is not always smooth sailing recording That Real Blind Tech show.

Here is the link to all of the ACB’s 2022 resolutions we discuss in this episode.

And we actually did save the best for last, to capitalize or not to capitalize braille!

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It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the usuals Brian and Allison are here and joined by Jeanine and David Goldstein as Ed tours all over England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, not Neverland which as Brian learned on the last podcast is a totally different place.

You may have heard that crypto theft is on the rise, well Nomad has decided to let the thieves and pirates keep ten percent of their stolen bounty if they return the other ninety percent.

Apple is rumored to be launching a HomePod mini with a screen. It’s the yearly promise of Siri getting smarter, our Beta testers of iOS 16 chime in, and also let us know how door detection works. Unfortunately, passkey our method to a password less future will not launch when iOS 16 launches, and the feature will be bringing us more use of QR codes.

HBOMax and Discovery Plus will be merging in to a single streaming service. And Amazon has acquired iRobot.

It’s a very important What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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The gang is back together again to discuss the latest greatest tech news.

We start off discussing the Zuckhead as he wants to ruin your Facebook and Instagram timelines even more then he already has done.

Interestingly, employees are more concerned about working in the Metaverse than employers.

Next we answer the age old question, why do sighted people make so many more buttdials than blind peeps?

Amazon Drive is going bye bye, will anybody miss it? This then leads us in to discussing our current cloud services that we enjoy using.

This interactive map highlights the most famous person from every city. Unfortunately, the map is completely inaccessible.

Kamala Harris was mocked for using gender specific pronouns and describing what she was wearing to an audience of disability leaders. We try and avoid the politics but thought we needed to discuss our thoughts about this.

It’s then a special early edition of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now, and if you are a guide dog user, you will not want to miss this.

We then check in with Allison, as she is the only one on the team who is running the iOS 16 beta. We find out about focus issues, notifications, and if she has tested door detection yet? The sighted community is claiming that dictation in iOS 16 beta 4 is amazing, but what about the VoiceOver community? Apple has already ruined one of the most exciting features in iOS 16 beta 4, the ability to edit text messages is now just stupid!

The new M2 Mac Air is here. The new M2 Mac Air is here! How was the setup process? What the heck is granting kernel access to a program? The big brain on Allison explains. We then discuss why Apple can’t get TouchID right. We then discuss the debacle known as the Mac App Store and using it with VoiceOver.

We say goodbye to Ed, not to worry, it’s just for the month of August, and find out what Ed will be up to.

Join us on Thursday, August 4th to learn how to play fantasy football and about the fantastic accessibility of the Yahoo Fantasy iOs app. Join members of The All Blind Fantasy Football League as we discuss our history of playing fantasy football, why we play, what we like, different styles of play, and more. This event is being hosted by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, and registration is required. You can register for free here.

And it is a very memorable Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in good friend David Goldstein to the podcast. David is a long time member of the All Blind Fantasy Football League, a web designer and marketer, and a fellow podcaster.

We start off discussing the Podcast Roundtable that all of us were on, on July 6th, and presented by the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library.

We then go back to the beginning of David’s vision loss. David walks us through his early years, the 18 surgeries he has had, and how he has learned to cope with his vision loss.

We touch a little on Fantasy Football as the season is approaching and David is a long time member of the All Blind Fantasy Football League and was featured in the Mini-Doc that Yahoo Fantasy produced about the league. If you have not seen the video, watch it here.

David is a member of his local NFB Chapter. We dive in to his role with the chapter, and what he likes about the NFB. David recently started helping out at a BEP stand. We learn about the accessibility tools used at the stand, and a little bit about the BEP program.

David is a fellow podcaster with two shows, iCantCU and White Canes Connect. We discuss how David got started in podcasting, and what he likes most about podcasting. We find out how difficult it is to do a solo show, you paying attention here ed?

We then discuss David’s work designing the all new www.BlindTechShow.com website, how he got in to web design, how he became familiar with Wordpress design, and making accessible websites.

You can keep up with David on  and find him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech Show lair as the entire gang of Brian, Ed Allison, and Jeanine are all here to discuss a recap of the NFB Conference and some other current tech topics.

We start off with the very self indulgent uber exciting news that we have finally launched our own website, www.BlindTechShow.com. Brian learned if you don’t capitalize the letters to our name, it sounds very weird in the outline for the show. A very special thanks to friend of the podcast, David Goldstein for building our website. Check it out, we guarantee you will love it.

The iOS, iPad, and we think Mac OS public betas are now live. Will you be a beta tester or not? We then talk about AppleVis finally getting with the times and finally allowing beta testers to discuss the beta operating systems on their website.

YouTube is finally rolling out picture and picture on its iOS app, but none of us are happy about it.

Conference season is mostly over. We start off discussing how each conference handled hosting a conference as we continue to live in a pandemic world. We get Jeanine’s thoughts about what she got to check out and enjoy at this year’s NFB Conference, besides coming home with Covid. Jeanine walks us through all the Braille, yes, Braille with a capital B, devices that she got to put her hands on at the conference. And yes, she asked permission before touching any of them!

With both the ACB and the NFB presenting resolutions to Congress to help improve the lives of the blind and visually impaired, are they canceling each other out by not having one direct united approach to Congress?

We discuss this year’s NFB resolutions, and would have posted the link in the demo, but at the time of writing this the NFB’s website now says page not found when trying to read this year’s resolutions. Hmm, very strange stuff.

We threw this article in to our discussion of the NFB’s Resolutions 13 and 14 about Lift and Uber, as CNN published this fantastic article about how ride share services are still failing disabled customers.

Even though Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, we discuss what we purchased this year, or didn’t purchase.

We then discuss why bluetooth remains an incredibly frustrating technology after two decades, and who bluetooth is named for.

And it’s an all encompassing What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and more of Watcha Streaming, watcha Reading.

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Brian and Ed welcome in Rodney Edgar to the That Real Blind Tech show lair for another Trendsetters episode.

Rodney began podcasting back in 2009 with the show Tech Access Weekly. We find out how Rodney and his wife Erin started the show, what gave them the idea for the podcast, and what tools they were using back then to produce the podcast. Rodney walks us through his workflow of putting the show together.

That’s right, Brian let it slip out, as Blindtechshow.com will be launching some time this week, so check back soon. And as we launch our website for our show, we find out what caused the demise of Tech Access Weekly.    

We discuss the fun of going to the ATM when you are blind as Rodney used to work in banking and ATM coding.

Rodney then explains to us how he ended up on the Podcast High Contrast. Rodney walks us through reviewing products and software and being brutally honest about it all to their listeners.

We find out how Rodney got in to a career in coding and web design. He shares with us some of the biggest accessibility design issues facing developers.

We discuss how podcasting has evolved, and how advertising is ruining a lot of podcasts. 

Rodney shares his advice for those low vision and blind people wanting to get in to a career in web development.

You can keep up with Rodney on Twitter.

And it’s a special with Rodney Edgar Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show product unveiling, as Brian could not wait to get in to the That Real Blind Tech show lair to discuss his new Echo Frames with you.

Brian walks you through the design of the glasses, what the buttons on the glasses do, and how the touch pad works. He talks about the differences between the Bose Frames and Echo Frames so you can make a good decision about which pair of Smart Glasses may be right for you.

Jeanine Stanley then pops in from Aira and That Real Blind Tech show. Jeanine is here to share some very exciting announcements coming out of Aira over the next few days and at this year’s NFB and ACB Conferences.

To get in on the Aira Desktop beta please visit Aira here.

Aira is at this year’s NFB and ACB Conferences so you can learn more about everything going on at Aira at the conferences or just listen to this entire episode for the other very exciting announcements coming out from Aira.

Then it’s a brief What’s Pissing Off Brian Now.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with the gang in their separate lairs. And we start talking about how someone wants to copy That Real Blind Tech show and build their own lair.

China claims it has discovered aliens, but then quickly deletes the report. How did a man in Japan lose his entire town’s digital information?

The A Lady may soon be able to mimic the voice of a deceased relative. Creepy or cool? Instagram is testing out a new tool that will be able to tell your age by scanning your face. Again, creepy or cool?

It has been awhile since the three of us recorded last, and one of us, has a new M1 Mac Book Pro. Who will never guess who, and you will not want to miss the story behind the purchase, as it was not bought at your every day retailer. Brian then tells his adventure with his Air Pod Pros and what he learned at the Apple Store that you may be able to try and do if your Air Pod Pros are making funky noises. Rumors be running wild that the Air Pod Pro 2’s could have heart monitoring and work as hearing aids.

Allison is the brave one as she is running both the iOS and Mac betas. Even though the betas are in the very early stages we figured we would find out what she likes so far besides the Eloquence voices. This some how leads to a debate about the Singaporean English voice and what the heck language do people speak in Singapore if there is no language called Singaporean?

The fun continues with a little more smack talk with the guys and gal over at Blind Guy Talks Tech.

In iOS 16, you will now be able to mark junk text messages as spam. Personalized Spatial Audio is coming to Air Pod Pros, but we have no clue what this means or actually will be, but Apple claims it is a thing. Here’s a list of what features will not be coming to Intel Macs and what features may not be ready when OS Ventura is released in the fall.

Prime Day 2022 will be July 12 and 13, but the sales have already begun, and Brian and Allison already jumped on the massive sale for the Echo Frames.

CNN was baffled that there are PodFasters out there. Obviously the crack writers at CNN have never ever met a blind person.

And for the inner hippy in all of us, we found this article about soundscapes from all over the world that you can listen to to chill out.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading!

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It’s been awhile, but it’s another Super Cool, super Solo That Real Blind Tech Show demo from Brian. With more big companies playing nice together, it was about time for Brian to ditch his subscription to Amazon Music, and switch to Apple Music as part of the Apple One Plus option.

The issue with switching music providers is how do you take your playlists with you that you have been spending so much time creating over the years. Well, with the help of a third party free website, called Tune My Music, 

The good news is with Tune My Music you can transfer playlists between almost any music provider. The disappointing news, at least on the Mac, is you have to take all of your playlists with you, as the feature to deselect individual playlists is not accessible. Still, even with this issue, we thought it was worth it to demo how to take all of your music playlists from one provider to another.

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It’s an all new fully packed That Real Blind Tech Show lair, as Brian and Ed welcome in Virginia Jacko, CEO of the Miami Lighthouse and Jorge Hernandez, IT Manager for the Miami Lighthouse.

We kick things off catching up with Virginia since we last spoke with her mid-pandemic, and find out how things have been going at the Miami Lighthouse.

We then learn what Jorge does as the IT Manager on a day to day basis.

Next we  dive in to the headache of web overlays and where we are in fighting the battle against them.

The conversation then moves too distant learning, and the importance of teachers understanding basic accessibility and accessible instruction.  

Here is the web accessibility Overlay fact sheet we discuss during the interview.

The Miami Lighthouse was heavily involved in reviewing the Presidential candidates websites during the 2020 election. We find out if politicians are following the Lighthouses’s advice on the importance of making their website accessible as we approach the Mid-term elections.

Virginia then walks us through one outstanding example of a case where The Florida Division of Blind Services really excelled.

We then discuss the differences between working with younger and older visually impaired and blind individuals.

We discuss policy of government agencies, and the Lighthouse, and how important tackling the mental health side of blindness needs to be.

Virginia then explains to us some of the non-technical services that the Miami Lighthouse offers.

We find out how and who is eligible for services from the Miami Lighthouse.

There are several ways to keep up with the Miami Lighthouse. If you are eligible for services through them, you may want to check out their online shop. To check out all of the amazing services the Miami Lighthouse offers, please visit their website.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show,  and we have found Jeanine, she’s alive, and we sucked her in to the That Real Blind Tech Show lair for a massive recap of WWDC 2022. So welcome back Jeanine Stanley, and Allison Meloy is here as well. Sorry Allison no creative lengthy intro for you.

We start off finding out what the Matrix has been like, as that is the only reasonable explanation to where has Jeanine been.

We start off discussing the new S lady, er, well it took us awhile but eventually we found a name for the new Sonos assistant, how about the S dude! We don’t believe it is taken yet. 

Next before jumping in to everything WWDC, we discuss a landmark lawsuit coming in from Australia against Google and YouTube.

Then it is on to WWDC 2022. We start off discussing the high quality audio description for this year’s keynote, what some of our highlights were and if we had any disappointments from the keynote.

We got two new Macs coming next month, an M2 Mac Air and a M2 Mac Book Pro. Will either of these devices be in any of our futures? We also got a new Apple 35W charger that will have two UsbC ports.

We discuss the rumor that Eloquence voices are coming to the iPhone and Mac. We cannot confirm or deny this rumor. We then get in to what excites us most about iOS 16. We then discuss all the changes coming to the newly redesigned locked screen. Next we will be getting iCloud Family Sharing of the photo library. You will now be able to edit and delete sent messages, however, people will be able to tell that changes have been made to the message. Siri is going to kind of get smarter, as she will now be able to hang up phone calls and add emojis. Medication tracking is coming to the health app. Safety Check, a new feature will help people escape domestic violence. iOS 16 apps will now need to ask permission to access the clipboard, ugh. Haptic feedback will be coming to the keyboard, really, we thought it was already there for VoiceOver users.

Apple Pay later is coming to Apple wallet, but is this really a good thing? Shockingly, we learned Apple Maps currently does not have multi-stop directions, well it will in iOS 16.

We talk about sports scores and play by play coming to sports, and if you are an Apple News Plus member, you will be able to get news about your favorite teams, but some of us already have apps that do this. The Home app will get an all new badly needed redesign.

In our favorite segment of the keynote, the Geek was back, as he told us all about the new Watch OS. I love this guy! We are not runners on this show, but lots of new things for those of you who have been known to run. More on sleep tracking to, but nothing about keeping Freddy out of those dreams.

Mac OS Ventura is coming and is supposed to improve continuity between all of our devices. We discuss the new Stage Time coming to FaceTime and Zoom, and the new Desk. View. We try and figure out what the difference is between deleting a sent message and recalling one, as some of this stuff got quite confusing. Free Form collaboration is coming to the Mac, but will it be accessible, and useful? Stage Manager is yet another feature coming to the Mac, but again, will it be useful for VoiceOver users? And yet another new feature called App Windows will be coming to the Mac. Head can explode now. 

The biggest most revolutionary announcement at this year’s WWDC, in our opinion, is PassKey, Apple’s attempt to replace old school annoying passwords. Wow, if this actually works.

The long awaited global nightmare of the iPad not having a weather app is over!

We discuss Live Text and Jeanine gives us an example of how she has used it.

And it’s more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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The gang is back together again in the That Real Blind Tech Show lair.

On this episode we start off discussing WWDC, oh wait, that is still a few weeks off.

What does Morgan Freeman and Zuckhead have in common? Well, you will have to listen or read this article to find out.

We figure that we’re all adults here, well maybe except for Brian, but we still discuss how Pornhub has changed the world.

In the absolutely ridiculous portion of the news, California parents will soon be able to sue over their children’s social media addictions.

In more sensible news, Apple is reminding developers that by June 30th, if their app offers the ability to create an account, it must offer the option to delete an account. In a totally utopian world, Apple wants you to be able to switch devices just by picking one up.

Netflix is stepping up its commitment to Audio Description and Captioning. Did you see the memo the CEO of Netflix sent to woke employees? We did.

One of us never dreams, so we thought it would be a good time to ask, do blind people dream? And if so, do they dream visually or in sound? And if you dream, what about nightmares too?

From dreams and nightmares to employment of the blind and low vision. We thought it would be a good time to re-visit how much of a struggle it still is for many people in the low vision and blind community to find suitable employment. And does remote work lead to more low vision and blind people getting employed?   

In honor of the upcoming WWDC from Apple, we decided to take a look back at last year’s WWDC to recall what excited us about new features, and what we think about those new features now that we have been using them for a year. Hold on to your hat for this ride!

The one thing that does have us excited about WWDC 22 is the recent mention of Door Detection coming in the next iOS update, hopefully it will not be as much as a lame duck as recent iOS new features.

And it’s more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading!

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian is joined in the That Real Blind Tech Show lair by Joe Steinkamp. Joe is here to discuss all the exciting news that came out of this year’s Google IO.

We start off discussing Joe’s tweeting habits during big tech announcement sessions, and then directly move in to why Talk Back still sucks so bad.

We then dive in to the big announcements that came out of this year’s google IO. We start off discussing the upcoming Pixel Watch  and Fit Bit accessibility. We then discuss Google copying Apple, which leads us in to discussing Google Glass.

The word accessibility came up several times during Google IO, but not in the way we would have hoped.

The conversation then turns to Android 13.

Google announced the Google Pixel 6A, who is this device being marketed towards? And Pixel Tablets again.

We then discuss both Google and Apple’s current business philosophies, and the state of accessibility development.

And of course it is more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

You can keep up with Joe at Blind Bargains. And make sure to follow Joe on Twitter.

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Brian and Ed are back in the That Real Blind Tech Show Lair, and are thrilled to be joined by the recently rewired, not retired Larry Goldberg. Larry just left Yahoo, as their Head of Accessibility.

We start off asking Larry about the future of accessibility at Yahoo.

We revisit our history over the past few years with Yahoo and the All Blind Fantasy Football League. If you have not seen the mini documentary about The All Blind League, you can watch it here. If you are interested in joining the Second All Blind Fantasy Football League which will be launching this August, email us in [email protected] to reserve your spot.

Coming up in just a few days is Global Accessibility Awareness Day which Larry is involved with, we get his thoughts about where the state of accessibility is in 2022. Larry is also involved with XR Access, a group who’s goal is making augmented and virtual reality accessible to all, we dive in to what is coming up with them as their virtual conference will be June 9th and 10th.

We then begin our stroll down memory lane with a This is your life with Larry Goldberg. We discuss some of Larry’s career highlights, some lesser known moments of Larry’s career, and of course discuss all the amazing achievements Larry has accomplished in the name of accessibilityy.

We discuss how a USC Broadcast graduate ends up working in accessibility. Larry explains how captioning eventually led to audio description in television and film. We discuss the early days of audio description and how audio description has evolved here in 2022.

We then talk about Larry’s involvement with the 21st Century Communications Act, and find all about Teach Access.

We wrap up discussing what we can look forward to from Larry Goldberg the Consultant. You can keep up with Larry through his LinkedIn page.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as the gang is back together in their still socially distant lairs of choice. We start off again with a little peek behind the curtains to our discussion before we actually hit record. Ok, so record had obviously already been hit, but we speak freely until we actually kick off the show.

Once we get rock and rolling, we start off discussing Global Password Day. Who even knew this was a thing? So for the big day, we discuss our latest methods of managing all those messy passwords. In honor of Global Password Day, Apple, Microsoft, and Google have come together looking to get rid of passwords! And to do so they will be using Fido.

CNN Plus Sleeps with the fishes! We didn’t even get to talk about the launch. And is Netflix adding ads?

At least as of June 1st on this show we will have some competition for the name the S Lady. 

Apple has announced they will be lowering trade in prices on all devices not named iPhone. Since we have the queen of returns on our show, we thought we would get Allison’s expert advice on how she maximizes value on all those returns.

VoiceDream Reader has come to the Mac, but why would someone need or want it?

Some users are having a weird iOS bug where Apple Music is replacing other music providers in their dock. Conspiracy theorists are out in the millions!

With Edge recently passing Safari as the second most used desktop browser, we thought we would visit our go to browsers of choice.

We discuss the recent article about best wireless headphones in 2022.

The conversation then moves to the word Transitioning and why is this word used so predominantly in the blindness community. One of us has a big issue with it. Bet you can guess which one of us does!

Next we discuss our favorite items from the recent article top ten cellphone myths.

We then go over a couple of emails from Dan and Mary regarding a blunder that happened with the release of an episode a few weeks ago.

Finally, it’s a classic story from Brian, and more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now, and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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Brian and Ed welcome Sam Seavey to the That Real Blind Tech Show Lair. If Sam’s name is not familiar to you, his YouTube Channel probably is as Sam produces The Blind Life.

Sam takes us through how he started The Blind Life originally known as The Blind Spot, what made him want to get in to producing videos for the blind and low vision, and his experience with Android devices of all things.

We discuss some of the initial accessibility barriers Sam faced when he launched his YouTube channel, and what some of the challenges he faces producing his channel in 2022.

Sam then shares his experiences being back in person at ATIA and CSUN conferences this year.

Since we are both tech shows, we discuss reviewing products and how we handle a product that we just cannot give a positive review about. We then tackle the common complaint that assistive technology products are overpriced.

Here at That Real Blind Tech Show, our setup is fairly simplistic, as we just work with audio. We were quite curious to learn about Sam’s setup for filming video, and how accessible the products he uses are for the blind and low vision. Sam tells us about the first Sony camcorder to have a screen reader built in to it, but hold your horses, as the screen reader is still unfortunately, in its development stages.

While Sam’s The Blind Life Channel is completely free to view and subscribe to, he does need to eat, so if you are a fan of his content we discuss the different subscription levls he offers.

We then get Sam’s advice for people in our community who have been thinking about starting their own YouTube Channel. 

You can keep up with Sam on The Blind Life YouTube  and Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, now on Tick Tock if you use this one.

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Brian and Ed welcome Liz Gutman from International Digital Center (IDC) to the That Real Blind Tech Show lair.

Liz is the Head Writer for Audio Description at IDC. She explains to us what that entails, how she first learned about audio description, and how she got involved with working in Audio Description writing.

Liz pulls back the curtain a little, and lets us know about her process for writing an Audio Described script. We discuss the difference between good and not so good audio description, and learn that putting together an Audio Described script is more of a team effort than you would think.

We ask Liz if the studios and production companies are aware of the difference between high quality audio description and the other stuff.

We then discuss Brian’s experience reading his first Audio Described track and Liz’s experience working with him.

Liz then explains to us what her experience was like writing the Audio Described script for Bridgerton. You can read the article that both Liz and Brian are quoted in about Audio Description in the Wall Street Journal.

Liz is now teaching Audio Description writing with her former mentor Colleen Conner and while the current classes are completely sold out, you can learn more about them here. You can keep up with all things Liz by following her on Twitter.

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It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as the gang is back together and one of us has an all new podcast lair.

We start off discussing the fun back and forth we have been having with our friends over at Blind Guy Talks Tech.

We begin our tech segment of the show discussing how Uber and Lift’s initial response to the NYC Subway shooting was to hike all passenger fares in time of an emergency. Did you hear the one about the cops that pulled over a self driving car in San Francisco? We did.

Elon Musk is interested in buying Twitter. His bid came in just a smidge ahead of ours.

In our legal corner this week, some Russians are attempting to sue Netflix over them shutting down in their country.

Zuckhead wants Meta’s AR glasses to be Facebook’s iPhone moment. Here’s a role reversal, Apple is now calling out Facebook for their plans to take 50% from Mettaverse sales. Apple is rumored to be testing a feature that would allow app developers to automatically charge users for subscription price increases. Bad apple, Bad Apple. Are Apple’s own privacy concerns getting in their own way of innovation? With WWDC sneaking up on us, we decided to put together a wish list for Apple stock app improvements. You may want to hold off on buying a new Mac anytime soon as Apple is rumored to be working on 9 different M2 Macs.

We then check in on our Android experiences and discuss our thoughts of using the device, the gestures, and whether or not we plan to keep our Android phones.

We then discuss the state of accessibility for a few apps that are really failing pretty miserably. 

We then talk about a new topic, NFT’s. We actually had to look up what they are!

In honor of Spring Cleaning, we decided to talk robot vacuums. If you have a model you are loving, please do let us know and email us in at [email protected].

And of course its more of What’s Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.

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Brian is once again flying solo for another super cool, super useful That Real Blind Tech Show demo. He has the keys to the That Real Blind Tech Show lair, and can get in it any time he chooses.

First a test as the 144th person to email us in at [email protected] wins a million dollars. Full disclosure, there is absolutely nothing true about this previous statement, and no moola is being given away, just testing if you actually read the show notes as Brian mentioned on this episode.

Brian starts off demoing the item chooser on the Mac and how useful it has become in his daily workflow. He shows off the benefits of using the item chooser on the desktop and how it will not work in mail. He goes through using first letter navigation to quickly find emails, and then back to the item chooser in safari and numbers. Brian shows the difference between using the item chooser and web item rotor. 

Brian next walks you through using your Jump Command, VO J in finder windows and Mac mail. He demonstrates the issue in Mac OS Monterrey where you cannot get rid of the toolbar in finder windows or you will lose access to your side bar. Brian then shows you how to quickly add a folder to your side bar and dock as well as remove them.

Lastly, Brian shows you how to enable dictation on your Mac and gives an example of how improved dictation is on the Mac. 

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