Allison interviews Helene Rydell from Sonova Phonak about their Roger assisted listening devices. Roger is a system of microphones and receivers designed to help people hear better under various conditions. Roger mics include the Table Mic which automatically selects and amplifies the person who is talking and the Select which allows the user to manually […]
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MarsEdit Tutorial on ScreenCastsOnline
I had a total blast creating my latest tutorial for ScreenCastsOnline. It’s on the blogging software called MarsEdit from red-sweater.com/…. This is a fantastic piece of software that I use for creating all of the blog posts you see on podfeet.com. The best part of doing these tutorials is that it forces me to learn […]
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CSUN Assistive Tech Conference 2019
CSUN friends Steve, Aleeha, Mike, Al, Jeff, Shelly This week Steve and I attended the CSUN Assistive Tech Conference, and I wanted to tell you a little bit about it. You’ll be hearing the very few interviews we did on the exhibit hall floor but we did more than the exhibit hall this year. I […]
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QD Laser’s Retissa Retinal Projection Eyewear
We have three video/audio interviews from CSUN’s Assistive Technology Conference, but there was one product where we didn’t do an interview and yet it was a pretty interesting product. The product is the Retissa Retinal Projection Eyewear from QD Laser. This is a glasses-type piece of eyewear that projects the outside world directly onto your […]
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CSUN 2019: Ocutech Low Vision Aids
Allison interviews Sarah Lovejoy from Ocutech about their bioptic telescopes that help visually impaired people see better. Ocutech Bioptics are like miniature binoculars that attach to your regular eyeglasses and make images larger and easier to see. Bioptics are ideal for individuals with reduced visual acuity between 20/60 to 20/300 and they can be prescribed […]
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CSUN 2019: AssistiveWare Proloquo2Go AAC App
Allison interviews Barbara van ’t Westende from AssistiveWare about their Proloquo2Go Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app. This app runs on an iPad and helps people who cannot convey their thoughts using speech to communicate. Proloquo2Go uses symbols and pictures that are displayed on the iPad and selected by the user to communicate. The symbols […]
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SleepPhones — Pajamas for Your Ears
Back when I was a teenager, I always used to leave my homework until last thing before bed. I was pretty sure it was just because I was lazy, but the excuse I used to give to my parents was “I do my best thinking late at night.” Oddly enough, there was more to my […]
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Now that Apple Cancelled AirPower – Ampere Unravel Instead!
On 29 March 2019, a few weeks after this article was originally published, TechCrunch reported that Apple has canceled AirPower. Might be time to take a serious look at Ampere’s Unravel. Now that we in the Apple community have gotten a taste for wireless charging, we want it on all the things. We’re not content […]
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Web Accessibility Evaluation – Podfeet is Not as Good as it Should Be
I pride myself on paying attention to accessibility, as part of the natural fabric of my podcasts and blog. What is that saying taken from Proverbs, “Pride goeth before a fall”? Yeah, I have fallen big time on this one. I’m a fanatic about making sure I have alt tags on my images. Alt tags […]
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Security Bits – 8 March 2019
Followups The on-going Spectre/Meltdown saga Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs — arstechnica.com 🇦🇺 Australia’s controversial anti-encryption law: Mozilla fears encryption law could turn its employees into insider threats — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… FastMail Challenges Australia Encryption Law — www.macobserver.com/… Grey-hat iPhone hackers Cellebrite are back in the news as older […]
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