Interactive Accessibility

This episode is a double brush with fame! We talk with George Wertzel, who works for the San Francisco Light House for the Blind and Visually Impaired as the Camp Construction Manager for their Enchanted Hills Camp. George recently starred in Subaru’s first audio described commercial featuring someone who is blind. And, yes, we learn that Darren-The-Guide-Dog is the first and only IAP host to have fans.

IAP Co-host Jeremy Curry is in the principal’s office and is blaming it all on co-host and guide dog Darren. Principal of New Haven Primary School in New Haven, Indiana, Renita Peters, talks to us about Disability Awareness Month

In this episode: Jeremy and Mark talk about the Aira service that uses wearable glasses technology and remote assistance to help people with vision disabilities with, well, almost anything. The Interactive Accessibility Podcast (IAP) is an entertaining approach to accessibility. We enjoy sharing our discussions on accessibility and how it relates to technology, real-life issues, information, businesses, and people with disabilities.

Co-host Mark Miller, who is sited, takes co-host Jeremy Curry’s guide dog for a mismatched and confusing walk across a busy Chicago street.

Jeremy and Mark have a fund discussion about the accessibility of the iPhoneX especially as it relates to the facial recognition feature.

Explore the not so distant future of autonomous cars and the accessibility implications with Jeremy and Mark.

The Interactive Accessibility Podcast (IAP) is an entertaining approach to accessibility. We enjoy sharing our discussions on accessibility and how it relates to technology, real-life issues, information, businesses, and people with disabilities. In this episode: An interview with cofounder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Joe Devon.

The Interactive Accessibility Podcast (IAP) is an entertaining approach to accessibility. We enjoy sharing our discussions on accessibility and how it relates to technology, real-life issues, information, businesses, and people with disabilities. In this episode: Flying Cars.

David Neimeijer from AssitiveWare and host Mark miller talk about the advantages of AssistiveWare’s accessible word processor Wrise, which was unveiled at the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) conference in Orlando, Florida this year.

Hans Wiberg, founder of Be My Eyes, joins Mark Miller to discuss the phenomenon of this new iPhone app that allows sited individuals to be the eyes for someone who is blind and needs a quick set of eyes.

The IAP broadcast live from the 2014 Boston Accessibility Conference held May 10th at the IBM Innovation Center. Mark talk’s to conference attendees Amy Ruell, the president of VIBUG, Lindsay Yazzolino, a research program coordinator at a cognitive neuroscience lab at Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary, and the Key note speaker Judy Brewer, who is the web Accessibility Initiative Director at the W3C.

Kimberly Cline of AI Squared joins Mark on the IAP to discuss the ZoomText for Mac Release. Kimberly tells the story of starting ZoomText University and how it help both ZoomText users and to evangelize the product.

Aaron Leventhal from AI Squared joins us on the IAP for a great discussion about the assistive technology that is place right on the website - sitecues. Discover the innovation that went into this revolutionary approach. Show Notes & Links

This week on the IAP, Mark Miller interviews inclusion learning evangelist Luis Perez.

This week on the IAP, Jeremy Curry of GW Micro and I discuss the revolutionary partnership between Microsoft and GW Micro that lead to Window-Eyes being offered for free to owners of Office 2010 or later.

This week on the IAP, we discuss a new camera product, aimed at being a sort of seeing aid for people with blindness and low vision.

This week on the IAP, we talk about the need for more accessible travel apps, right before we all head off for American Thanksgiving.

This week on the IAP, we talk with Dennis Lembree, creator of EasyChirp, an accessible interface for Twitter.

This week on the IAP, we talk about some research at MIT that is paving the way for some very useful tools for the visually-impaired.

This week on the IAP, we talk about a new bit of research for the Xbox Kinect which allows translation between various sign languages and spoken word.