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New Gadget for Me: Heart Beat Monitor   Wanted something more direct to check my heart beat rather than using the Apple watch.   http://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/HF9K2VC/B/wahoo-tickr-heart-rate-monitor?cid=mail+share Microsoft Office 2016 Accessibility Comments   Just started using Microsoft Office 365 Microsoft Outlook in particular for the Mac and it is amazing what Microsoft has done for accessibility.   In some ways, finding using Outlook on the Mac a nicer experience than using Outlook in Windows.   Netflix Agrees to Offer More Audio Description on More Titles   Good to see a soon increase in audio described content from Netflix.   https://consumerist.com/2016/04/14/netflix-agrees-to-offer-audio-description-tracks-for-the-blind-on-more-titles/   AFB AccessWorld for April 2016   CSUN 2016 update, and an interview from me.   http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp?utm_source=AFB&utm_medium=email   NVAccess Releases Official Training Material for NVDA   Cost is $33.00 but you can get...

A Great Episode of the Tech Doctor Podcast: Celebrating 40 years of Apple   From the Tech Doctor Blog page re this episode:   We were fortunate to have author and Mac journalist, Shelly Brisbin join us. Shelly started using the Mac in 1986. She brought us a very unique perspective as a technical writer, publisher and low-vision Mac user. With around 400 instructional podcasts under his belt, David Woodbridge is arguably the most prolific Apple accessibility podcaster. We all learn from the excellent podcasts that David produces. Larry Skutchan harnessed the power of the Apple II in 1983 when he wrote one of the first fully accessible talking word processors. We introduce this podcast by playing a sample of the Echo II speech synthesizer which Larry’s word processor used to speak the text that was on the Apple’s screen. Larry went on to write a very popular terminal program for the Apple II. ProTerm enabled us to access such popular online services as GEnie, CompuServe and hundreds of B...

Google Releases App To Test Accessibility   When I was talking about CSUN last week, I didn’t get to mention the Accessibility Scanner from Google to test app accessibility.   http://globalaccessibilitynews.com/2016/03/25/google-launches-accessibility-scanner-for-android-app-developers/   In Other Google News: BETA of Voice Access   Control your Android device via your voice: navigate, activate items on screen, and dictate.   https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6151848?hl=en   Access World for March 2016   Two articles of interest that caught my attention: ATIA conference highlights, and NvDA Remote overview.   In particular from ATIA: The I.D. Mate Bar Code Scanner, and the Orcam makes another appearance.   http://www.afb.org/aw/main.asp   For Star Wars Fans   Star Wars: the Force Awakens is now available in iTunes with audio description.   Caption Bot AI from Microsoft To Describe Any Image   https://www.captionbot.ai/?platform=hootsuite   Microsoft Cognitive Serv...

Happy Birthday Apple: 40 Years And Still Going Strong   Bloomberg, CNBC, Associated Press, The Verge, and others reflect on the first 40 years of Apple which is now "at the top of its game” and pay tribute to the company’s humble beginnings in a garage to an industry leader with over 100,000 employees and a "string of culture-defining products.” CNBC shows where the company is today by the numbers calling out one billion active Apple devices around the world, 11 million Apple developers, and that the company is responsible for 2 million jobs in the U.S. alone and over 4 million in China.  Stories call out the company’s mission to change the world and that the "fundamental notion — that technology should enable culture — has remained a core piece of Apple’s mission.”  Walt Mossberg shares his favorite product moments commenting, “The iPod is what made Apple begin to explode and become the Apple that now, on their 40th anniversary, we know of as this highly innovative, hig...