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Parallel
Hosted by Relay · EN
Why don’t the worlds of mainstream tech and accessibility tech ever seem to collide? Shelly Brisbin, who keeps one foot in each, wants to know. She and her guests from both worlds chew over the news and trends of the day, mixing in an accessibility perspective. Hosted by Shelly Brisbin.
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93: The Last Show
Jun 26, 202401:30:20Tap to summarizeSubtitle: Picking your accessibility battlesToday, we offer an all-star panel of podcasters and tech pundits with a lot to say about the first 15 years of mobile accessibility from Apple. To my delight, the show veered hard into present and future topics. Also, Parallel says farewell. Guest Starring: Steve Sawczyn, Mikah Sargent, Jonathan Mosen, David Woodbridge, and Allison Sheridan Links and Show Notes: 36 Seconds That Changed Everything – How the iPhone Learned to Talk Sonos has broken accessibility for its blind users. Now they must repair the app and repair trust – Mosen At Large AppleVis Open Radar
Transcribe →92: Dystopian Skynet Future – Sometime Next Year
May 29, 202400:53:22Tap to summarizeSubtitle: Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024What are the takeaways from Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD 2024? We highlight accessibility announcements from Apple and BeMyEyes. Guest Starring: Robin Christopherson Links and Show Notes: 36 Seconds That Changed Everything: How the iPhone Learned to TalkShelly's documentary about the history of iOS accessibility Global Accessibility Awareness Day Apple Accessibility Preview at Six Colors Apple Accessibility Preview press release Be My Eyes
Transcribe →91: I'm VR Curious
Mar 19, 202400:59:08Tap to summarizeZoe Knox bought a Vision Pro when they first became available, anticipating that Apple's headset would provide accessibility features. How those features might work with Zoe's low vision? That was a big unknown. Guest Starring: Zoe Knox Links and Show Notes: Vision Accessibility on Apple's Vision Pro Create accessible spatial experiences - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer Blackbox for Vision on the App Store
Transcribe →90: I Want to Pinch and Zoom the World
Feb 13, 202400:58:45Tap to summarizeSubtitle: Hands-On with Apple Vision Pro AccessibilityApple's Vision Pro headset offers a number of accessibility features. But how well do they serve those with disabilities, and what should we expect from future versions of the product? Now we have some answers. Guest Starring: Robin Christopherson
Transcribe →89: Low Vision Pro
Jan 9, 202400:30:18Tap to summarizeI spoke with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece for their show, Double Tap. They wanted my thoughts on how Apple's Vision Pro might land with users who have low vision. Steven kindly gave me permission to republish that conversation here. Guest Starring: Shaun Preece and Steven Scott Links and Show Notes: Double Tap – It's a tech show. Honest.
Transcribe →88: How Hard Could XCode Be?
Nov 22, 202300:49:16Tap to summarizeHow a young entrepreneur turned her own technology need into an app designed for other people with low-vision. Guest Starring: Rebecca Rosenberg Links and Show Notes: ReBokeh app LowVision
Transcribe →87: A Fish On Your Washing Machine
Oct 10, 202301:08:09Tap to summarizeWhat's the significance of Apple's iPhone 15 lineup, from an accessibility point of view? Guest Starring: Steven Scott Links and Show Notes: Access Tech Live - YouTube Introducing: Be My AI Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad - The Verge FineWoven hot take: It’s fine? – Six Colors Modern Leather Cases | NOMAD®
Transcribe →86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind
Sep 13, 202300:54:27Tap to summarizeAndrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a history of blindness, and blindness tech, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers. Guest Starring: Andrew Leland Links and Show Notes: The Country of the Blind, by Andrew Leland The Hidden History of Screen Readers: The Verge Exploding the Phone, by Philip Lapsley Windows Screenreader Primer, David Kingsbury Berkeley Systems' OutSpoken screen reader Jonathan Mosen's Living Blindfully Podcast Poetry Magazine, Braille subscription Atkinson Hyperlegible font Teleprompter Premium iOS app Sight Unseen, by Georgina Kleege More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, by Georgina Kleene
Transcribe →85: AI Will Not Fix Accessibility
Jul 20, 202300:44:07Tap to summarizeEven before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream, companies touted it as a way to make web sites accessible – a magic bullet that meant web devs could skip the accessibility checks normally done by humans. But it doesn't work like that. Guest Starring: Adrian Roselli Links and Show Notes: No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility — Adrian Roselli #AudioEye Is Suing Me — Adrian Roselli #UserWay Will Get You Sued — Adrian Roselli
Transcribe →84: Now that We've Had Some Time to Process...
Jun 20, 202300:47:15Tap to summarizeMy colleagues from the Maccessibility Roundtable join me for a conversation about Apple's Vision Pro and accessibility. We still don't know a lot, but be know more than we did an hour after the WWDC keynote. Guest Starring: Robin Christopherson, Robert Carter, and Darcy Burnard Links and Show Notes: Maccessibility
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