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iSee on Apple Hot News page in Australia   Well besides making it in to What Is Hot in the iTunes Store the other week, my book iSee (Getting Started with Apple products from a Blind Perspective) made it in to the Hot News list on the Australian Apple website.   http://www.apple.com/au/hotnews/   Dates for Vision Australia Texpo 2014 confirmed   Dates for the annual Vision Australia technology exhibition have been announced, on a Friday and Saturday as before.   Melbourne: 29 and 30 August. Sydney: 5 and 6 September. Brisbane: 12 and 13 September.   Planning to commence in March.   http://www.visionaustralia.org/about-us/news-and-media/latest-news/news/2014/01/24/dates-are-set-for-texpo-2014   Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference 2014 Florida Jan 29 to feb 1 - Session Review (choose the list all button)   Always think it is interesting to see what type of sessions are taking place at these international conferences in the area of Assistive Technology.   http://s3...

Before I get in to talking about Window-Eyes, I got a nice surprise yesterday, my book iSee made it in to What’s Hot in the Australian iTunes Store.   Ok, back to Window-Eyes.   Last week, GW Micro in collaboration with Microsoft announced that their screen reader (Window-Eyes) will now be available for free for owners of Microsoft office 2010 and above:   http://www.gwmicro.com/News_&_Events/Latest_News/?newsNo=299   This really did catch the AT industry by surprise.  It will certainly cause Freedom Scientific to perhaps think their position of how much JAWS For Windows continues to cost.   With Window-Eyes For Microsoft Office, your getting a thousand dollar screen reader for free, and even if you have to buy a license of Microsoft Office, you still come out on top.   It seems to me, that Microsoft is in the process of using 3rd party technology to make their products more accessible. For instance, Code Factory recently announced Mobile Speak for Windows Phone.  However, giving p...

iPod nano watch band   Turned my iPod nano on to a watch: particularly useful when listening to the cricket as the iPod nano has an FM radio.  Purchased watch band from eBay, particularly as iPod nano no longer sold.   Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (7 inch)   Accessible tablet from Amazon: allow the reading of Kindle books with touch gestures: speech and large print: allows other Android type apps to be accessed.   A great start on accessibility, could be improved, great for some folks, iPad still top of the hill for overall accessibility.   http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201295560   Launch of my book: iSee: All you need to know to getting started with Apple products from a blind perspective.   My first go at using iBooks Author to create a multi-touch book, readable on iPad or Mac, still some VoiceOver issues with iPad mini VoiceOver reading: but all part of the accessibility journey in creating a book, rather than just reading one (smile).   Since it was  in iTun...

You may have noticed that the name has slightly changed for this blog page: iSee - David Woodbridge  Technology Blog. The reason for this was to bring some kind of order to the various things I have and will be producing: i.e. my recent book: iSee - All you need to know on getting started with Apple products from a blind perspective, available in the iTunes store. Subsequently, I also changed the name of my podcast from Apple and Other Technology to: iSee - how to use Apple products from an accessibility perspective. So iSee blog, iSee podcast, and iSee book. Well, at least it makes sense to me (smile),. The feed for my podcast hasn’t changed, its still: http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com/feed/

To make things a bit more accessible and to actually find the radio program, I’m going to post Talking Tech news on my Apple and Other Technology feed:   https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/apple-other-accessible-technology/id423121261?mt=2   plus the notes for the show, posted the day after it is heard on VA Radio every Tuesdays at 4:30PM Melbourne time.   Radio program commences next week.