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Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   Here’s what’s on the show this week.   Now streaming live on Facebook and YouTube,0:00.000 Mushroom FM’s new server brings improved audio quality, back on Apple Music,0:59.384 Join the Blind Podmaker club for blind …

Episode 103: New Zealand making waves, dating when blind, maths equipment, iOS 14.5 beta 3 and more Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers. Some of us take to smart phone use like a duck to water. Others understand their potential, but really struggle and want to throw the thing out the jolly old window. And then there are …

Episode 102: Louie Voice Control for Android Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   As always, we celebrate a diversity of topics and viewpoints. Through open listening, we understand each other better.   On the show this week.   A weekend of COVID alert changes and technical outages,0:00.000 …

Episode 101: Respecting opinions different from your own, maths equipment of the past, more on Clubhouse and the importance of an open Internet Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   It is amazing to me that this is episode 100 already. Thank you so much for making this podcast a global community for conversation that can be friendly, challenging, informative, amusing and more.   …

Episode 100: Australian Government setting a dangerous precedent, plenty of Braille display talk, home automation and more Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   I’ve had a lot of requests to produce this, so here it is, a tutorial, review and demonstration of Clubhouse, the audio social network, from a blindness perspective.   This podcast is segmented by …

Episode 99: All you need to know about Clubhouse from a blindness perspective Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   It’s all Apple related in this episode. Here’s what you can expect and when.   Moving apps in iOS,0:00.000 Using iOS Voice Control withVoiceOver,8:16.543 Changing thumb key assignments on an APH Mantis and similar …

Episode 98: Some Apple slices. Moving apps, using Voice Control with VoiceOver, and reassigning thumb keys on the APH Mantis and similar Braille displays Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   It’s another lively show with plenty of information and discussion. Here’s what’s on.   Technology for following every minute of the Trump impeachment trial,0:00.000 A regretful Trump supporter and the importance of the way …

Episode 97: Following every moment of the impeachment trial, more on when disability rights and religion collide, thoughts on Clubhouse and more Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   Samsung has recently released a new Galaxy range, plus they are going back and upgrading some older models to Android 11. As part of that upgrade, the Voice Assistant screen reader has been replaced …

Episode 96: Nick Zammarelli reviews the new version of Google Talkback included with Samsung smartphones Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   We have received a large number of listener contributions from people who are distressed, frustrated and/or angry about ongoing accessibility issues with VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in screen reader for iOS. I’ll include a small selection …

Episode 95: Advocacy strategies for better VoiceOver reliability, when religion and disability rights collide, tech tips and more Read more »

Kia ora Mosen At Largers.   HumanWare has launched a new generation of Brailliant Braille displays. They are notable not only for what they do out of the box today, but also for the tantalising promise of some great future …

Episode 94: HumanWare talks about its new generation Brailliant Braille displays, and a review of the Brailliant BI20X Read more »