I dictate reminders to myself all the time while I’m on my walks. I wear AirPods, so I interrupt my podcast listening by saying, “Hey S-lady” and then “Remind me to …” I used to say “Remind me to… when I get home” but geofencing is not at all reliable, so I pick a time […]
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NC #827 CharJenPro Ear Hooks, CSUN AT Conference Section 508, Everything is Fiddly, ANDI Web Accessibility Tester
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, March 14, 2021, and this is show number 827. Before we get started I’d like to give a little shout out to Steve, because this week was our […]
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Learn Screenium 3 Basics at ScreenCastsOnline
Two weeks ago I told you about an incredibly powerful and yet surprisingly inexpensive screencasting app called Screenium. I walked you through the features to explain the capabilities, but I also explained that this tool is far too powerful to explain in text how to make a screencast with Screenium. I told you that in […]
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“It’s Showtime!” – Brought to You by Keyboard Maestro
Ever since Mike Price started working on how to automate the creation of chapter marks into the podcast using Keyboard Maestro, I’ve been taking baby steps to do things with this amazing macro tool myself. I am definitely still on the bunny slope with the tool, but I feel like I’m starting to get how […]
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Test Your Website with ANDI – Accessible Name & Description Inspector
ANDI 7 Focusable Areas Dropdown In my article about accessibility in the Federal Government, I explained that they had created a tool to help them assess their own websites for accessibility errors. It’s called ANDI – Accessible Name & Description Inspector. I teased that I’d installed it and that I’d tell you more about how […]
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CCATP #675 – Working from Home Part 2 – Allister Jenks & Lindsay Tondee
In the last Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Lindsay Tondee made her debut appearance where we talked about working from home. After the show published, Allister Jenks wrote to me and told me that halfway through listening he had to stop and start writing down notes for a recording he would have to make […]
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Everything is Fiddly – the Developer Edition by Claus Wolf
Open Access Helper Safari Extension Typically this section only includes the end user perspective, but today I wanted to tell you that things are fiddly for developers as well – or at least the hobbyist developer, like myself. I maintain a Safari App Extension called “Open Access Helper”, which helps you find legal Open Access […]
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Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. I’ve always been a math girl. The world makes sense in math. It has rules that you must follow. Logical! Orderly! Everything fits inside those rules. But when it comes to writing, that is an art that has so many fiddly parts. I’ve never been a very good […]
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CSUN Assistive Tech Conference 2021 – Section 508 is More Interesting Than You Think
CSUN AT with Sign Language Interpreter One of my favorite conferences of the year is the CSUN Assistive Tech Conference. Steve and I were really on the fence whether to attend last year in person, and pulled out at the last minute as all of our friends’ companies had canceled their trips. In retrospect of […]
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I was watching a video on my iPad Pro and I wanted a richer, louder sound, so I used Control Center to switch it to the HomePod mini sitting right next to it. That worked great. After a bit, I wanted to change rooms, so again using Control Center I switched the audio output to […]
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