Podcasts and other media about tech for blind and VI users

I love Double Tap - sure it's not maybe that focused but I find the tangents are essential to me, plus they usually make me laugh at the same tie.

I struggle with that blind tech show. The content is fine but all the 80s pop culture sound effects really grate. Ace Ventura was annoying enough at the time. So I stopped listening to it as I found it too annoying.

I think a lot with podcasts are about how much you connect with the hosts and their personalities and senses of humour.

I like Shaun of the Shed too, but it's only once a month. I'll check out the others you mentioned.

VoiceOver said this topic was Podcasts for Blind and 6 users, so guess it's trying to interpret Roman numerals now. I did wonder what the hell it was on about to start with.

The only one I haven't heard of I think is Shaun of the Shed, but I will check him out. All the others are great, and you're forgetting the podcast(s) on this very website. Yes, I'm subscribed to the AppleVis podcast and have thoroughly enjoyed it. For whatever reason Apple's podcast app wasn't working for me that well. But I've now got it on my new phone and so far so good. No notifications as of yet though, but perhaps I just haven't configured them for the app.

I'm back with a podcast suggestion. I only discovered this one about a month or so ago, but it seems to be pretty good. It is from the Braillists Foundation, and is pretty good. I just listened to part 1 of a 3-part series all about ioS and Braille done by Scott Davert.

David Woodbridge from austrailia is a wonderful podcaster. His own site: www.davidwoodbr.podbean.com is updated with things like the hable one, or iphone related stuff and I think even Windows and droid stuff. He explains things wonderfully/

Another podcast I used to listen to a lot is Blind Abilities - they had a series called iPhone 101 which was amazing when I first started to use VoiceOver on the iPhone. (Although annoyingly the part on 2 finger gestures had gone missing, but maybe they have fixed that.) I've not really listened to it much since then, but they do seem to be churning out good tech news so maybe I need to revisit.

Are there any that are more like blogs? I really don't have the time or inclination to listen to an hour podcast when I can read the info in a fraction of that time? Not to say the podcasts aren't great! They are. I'm just very strapped for time. Podcasts have never quite hit the spot for me, would rather listen to an audiobook.

I understand what you mean, however he gets to the point quickly. I think the latest one is ten minutes, you can always skip through it. i'd say it's more like someone showing you as if you're next to them, rather then the banter which I agree can be annoying. Just listen to a few seconds, make a choice from there. Just trying to help.

Yeah, David gets to the meat of it straight off.

There is also the transcription feature in the latest IOS which allows us to read the podcast rather than listen. Still, it has all the banter in there which, though it's nice, does leave me skipping through.

For those who haven’t given it a listen, Living Blindfully is my podcast that, while not exclusively tech-related, has a large amount of technology content relating to all platforms. You get interviews with key people, for example at the time I’m writing this, the most recent episode has an interview with Microsoft’s Chief Accessibility officer. The week before that, we spoke with the two founders of Envision, and recently we spoke with the VP of product Management at Vispero. Our next episode has the CEO of Aira along with a demo of their new Access AI feature.

In addition to that, we’re very honoured to have listeners in 113 countries now who leave email contributions we read on the show, as well as recording their own audio. So we get a lot of opinion as well as people helping each other out with tech questions.

To Ollie’s point regarding time constraints, we transcribe our episodes and its done by a human, not a machine. That person is also blind, so she knows the products we all use, meaning accuracy is very high.

Also, it’s easy to skip past parts of the show that don’t interest you if you’re listening to it, because we make extensive use of podcast chapters. Unfortunately, there is an accessibility issue with finding the chapter buttons in Apple Podcasts at the moment, but if you use a third-party tool that supports podcasts such as Overcast, Downcast, Castro or Pocketcasts, it works well and is really handy.

We’ve implemented a player on the website, https://LivingBlindfully.com, where our show notes contains a time stamp for every item. If you press Enter on the time stamp, we move you right to that point in the audio and start to play it. So we do all we can to respect your precious time and get you to the info that matters to you.

We operate a mastodon account, @Podcast@LivingBlindfully.social, which posts a lot of useful technology and blindness-related content.

Hope you find it a good listen.

Hi all,

Just wanted to say a quick thanks for the kind words about RNIB Tech Talk. I’m one of the co-hosts, and it's really nice to hear that people are enjoying what we do. Remember you're always welcome to get in touch with the show by emailing techtalk@rnib.org.uk.

There is a really great podcast, Blind Level Tech by Aftersight, their episodes are about a half hour long, packed with information, digestable conversation.
The Apple Podcast link is:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blind-level-tech/id1675094936

Or just look for Blind Level Tech in your favorite podcast app.

I gave the RNIB podcast a go last night and enjoyed it - very informative. I even picked up a good tip with using VoiceOver on the iPhone - not sure if it was something new to me or something I'd just forgotten but I already found myself using it.

Regarding YouTube there is more Double Tap goodness on there. They have a series of short episodes under the name Double Tap, although they are compiled together on a Sunday in podcast form for those like me that can't be bothered with YouTUbe.

Also, Steven Scott from Double Tap co-hosts Access Tech Live on YouTube. This is maybe a little slicker than Double Tap so might suit some better. Personally I prefer the randomness and banter of the normal podcast but I do sometimes check it out as well.

Hi. While the following are not podcasts they will certainly help you to keep up with not only blindness technology but with accessibility related news in general.

Subscribe to Stéphanie Walter's Newsletter: UX, accessibility, inclusive design & tech news!
https://stephaniewalter.design/subscribe-to-the-blog-updates/

Accessibility Weekly
https://a11yweekly.com/

Top Tech Tidbits
https://www.toptechtidbits.com/

Microassist's Accessibility in the News
https://www.microassist.com/digital-access/news/

Finally, I operate the Tech-VI announcement list. This allows you to receive emails containing news (mostly) regarding blindness technology. You can subscribe via email, access the archive on the Web or subscribe via RSS.
To subscribe via email, send an email to
tech-vi+subscribe@groups.io

Tech-VI on the Web
https://groups.io/g/tech-vi

Tech-VI RSS Feed
https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/rss

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