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To shows posted at once this week: the 25th show and the 18th show for ugust 2015   Talking Tech for August 25th 2015   A Demo and Discussion of My Belkin WeMo Smart Switch’s and Link Smart Bulbs   http://s37.podbean.com/pb/76515e4df56e1e69ccbdeb595b8ba5bc/55d82b91/data1/blogs24/339150/uploads/demoofBelkinWeMoswitchandLinklight.mp3   AccessWorld for August 2015   Upgrading to Windows 10 (republish of an article from Cool Blind Tech posted in July), and a review of the book by Jonathan Mosen: Stream It! Movies, Music and more on the Apple TV with voiceOver.   https://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw1608toc   Stephen Jolley: www.change.org: Audio Description on Free to Air TV Campaign   https://www.change.org/p/minister-for-communications-malcolm-turnbull-help-people-who-are-blind-or-have-low-vision-to-get-audio-description-on-australian-free-to-air-tv   Vision Australia: Tell the Whole Story: Audio Description on Free to Air TV campaign   http://www.visionaustralia.org/about-us/adv...

A follow-up to the Dreaming of Streaming Webinar held on July 23 2015   In the following news item from Vision Australia, you can watch the video of the webinar, read a transcript, see a video of how to use the ABC iView service for accessing Audio Description with voiceOver, and send feedback about the webinar or send in suggestions for further webinars.     http://www.visionaustralia.org/about-us/news-and-media/latest-news/news/2015/07/30/vision-australia-s-first-webinar-for-the-blind-and-low-vision-community-held-29th-july     Vision Australia Bursary open for 2016   Applications for the 2016 Vision Australia Further Education Bursaries are now open as of 1 August 2015.   Each year, Vision Australia awards Further Education Bursaries to a select number of students who are blind or have low vision.    The bursaries provide adaptive technology to help the students fully participate and succeed in their chosen studies. Assistive technology can eliminate barriers to education and enhanc...

  Vision Australia has gone with Windows phone’s to be our mobile phone of choice for our staff, so I have spent the last couple of weeks putting Windows phone 8.1 with Narrator through it’s paces and here are some of my findings.   1. Phone, Mail, SMS and Internet Explorer are quite usable.  Starting up, locking and unlocking the phone was also very straightforward. 2. Not all of the inbuilt apps that I used on the Microsoft Lumia 640 were accessible: eg Calculator, Maps, News, Podcasts etc. 3. Narrator uses similar gestures to that of the iPhone such as 1 finger flick left or right to move to the previous and next items, and a modified version of the rotor found in iOS. 4. Have been having issues using automated systems where you have to use the keypad to enter your choice: i.e. number doesn’t seem to be recognised by the system being used.  eg had great difficulty setting up voice mail when I had to enter in the 6 digit pin. 5. Absolutely excellent that the Lumia 640 has an FM radio...