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The Universe Just Became More Accessible - Meet Timothy Spuck and the IDATA Project and their New AfterGlow Access Software for the BVI

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Taking Charge of your Goals, Destination and Education: Meet Hannah Harriman and Her Journey of Transitioning from High School to College to the Workplace

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Voice over Karaoke on the Apple Music App? Kind of, Sort of, in a Way. Demonstration of the Lyrics Feature with VoiceOver.

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iPhone101: Lists, Lists and More Lists - Flicking and Swiping Be Gone,; A Couple of More Efficient Ways to Manage Your Way Out of a Long List

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Learning Ally's College Success Program: Giving You the Tools and Support You Need to Thrive During College and Beyond. Meet coordinator Abigail Shaw, Mentor Rachel Grider and Mentee Gabi Mendonca

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There Is Still so Much More to Do. Thomas Reid: The Conversation. Host of the Reid My Mind Radio Podcast.

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Meet Actor Robert Tarango, the First DeafBlind Actor in a Lead Role, and Doug Roland, Writer and Director of the Academy Award Nominated Short Film, Feeling Through"

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Tech Abilities: Deep Into the Weeds with Post Pandemic and VR, Sonification and spatial Recognition, LG Gram Laptop, Air Tag symphony and the BA Studio Goes Mask Free!

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Accessible Astronomy: A More Inclusive Experience Thanks to Visualization Scientist Kimberly Arcand and the Talk Description to Me Team, Christine Malec and JJ Hunt

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Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is Listening to the Future of Navigation – Meet Engineer, Brandon Biggs

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It's not just the voice that matters; it's how you tell the story - Meet Voice Artist, Tanja Milojevic

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iPhone101: Period Shortcut and Auto Cap Shortcut

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AirTags Whare Are You? Ahh, FindMy to the Rescue. A Look at the AirTag Set-Up and Demo

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iPhone101: Emoji in Text Replacement Made Easy. Yes, Double Demo Day!

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Tech Abilities - What if… That's What It's All About? Accessible Air Fryer, Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch You Masked User. Good Friends Don't Let Friends Podcast on Pfizer! And, some Spring Loaded thing

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Vispero – Empowering Independence: Vispero Vice President Matt Ater Talks User Experience and How the Vispero Team is Listening to You

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Modesty, Integrity, a Dedicated Work Ethic and Above All, a Strong Love of Family - Meet Sandhya Rao: Attorney in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and VP of iBugToday

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The Mojo Lens is Focused on Bringing Super Powers to Low Vision – A Conversation with Dr. Ashley Tuan, VP of Medical Devices at Mojo Vision

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iBUG – the iBlind Users Group for Beginners and Proficient Assistive Tech Users. Join iBUGToday – it's Abuzz!

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Unified English Braille (UEB) Practice Sentences - Comprehensive, Ready to Use and Fun. A New Book from Roberta Becker

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Easterseal Disability Film Challenge Creatives Talk about the Experience, Challenge and Disability in Films

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Intel AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World: Meet Jagadish Mahendran, AI Developer, and Hema Chamraj, Director, Technology Advocacy at Intel

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Tech Abilities #1 Million and 6, Clubhouse Dreams, HBO Max and Audio Description? Specialized Help? Raqi? And Where Did Flicktype Get Them Apples!

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Programs and Opportunities are Growing for Students: A Chat with Transition Coordinator Sheila Koenig - Make that a Chill and Chat!

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Transitioning from High School to College: A Panel of College Students Take on the Questions from High School Students from a Blindness and Low Vision Perspective

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Going Hard Core on Tenacity, Advocacy, Perseverance and Empathy - Meet Alaska Center for the Blind Transition Coordinator for Youth, Multi-Talented Musician, Tony Gebhard

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Racial Disparities in School Discipline of Students with Disabilities.

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NaviLens - The new smart digital signage for everyone! Or, as we say, QR Codes on Steroids! Free App on iOS and Android

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How a Journey Through Vision Loss Prepared Laura Allen to Become Head of Strategy for Accessibility and Disability Inclusion at Google

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Transitioning Through Change and Mental Health with Beth Gustin, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Nationally Certified Mental Health Counselor

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Author Feather Chell Has So Many Interesting Chapters in Her Life, I just wanted to keep turning the Pages. And Her New Book, Stranded, is a Page Turner as Well!

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Our Space Our Place: A Creative Program Helping Students Connect Socially Through Arts, Sports and Community Service and Mentoring

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Inclusion in Academia for Blind and visually Impaired Students, Inclusion in STEM and the Importance of Braille at Any Age, Meet Dr. Natalina Martiniello

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Get Out of Your Brain and Do It! 4th Fittest Standing Adaptive Athlete in the World Kym DeKeyrel on CrossFit Training and How Her Life Changing Diet Made Her Who She is Today

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What's the Big Idea, Dr. Cal? A Conversation with Dr. Calvin Roberts, President and CEO of Lighthouse Guild

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Tech Abilities: Face ID Gets a Buddy in the Apple Watch. Will Your Air Pods Pair with Your Mac? Is Proximity Always a Good Thing? New Disney Bundle and Spam Call Blues

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Telling Stories Visually: Meet Legally Blind Filmmaker and YouTube Creator Juan Alcazar

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Rebranding Your Services to Fit the Changing Times: Meet Apple Certified Coach Donna Jodhan

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Tech Abilities: Dude, Where's My Clubhouse? Homan Prize is Live, PC vs Mac Round 1, Mac Mini, Mantis, iPad Air4 are Keepers but Did the Air Pod Pros Go Back? Then she's like, Dude!

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Braille Doodle: Creating touchable drawings. and the Perfect Solution for Teaching and Learning Braille While Remote Learning

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Strap - Change the way you explore the world! A New Device Being Developed by Strap Technologies, and Claiming Strap Could Possibly Replace the White Cane.

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Sing for Serenity Choir is an International On-Line Choir for the Blind. Come Listen and Join Us virtually!

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Tech Abilities: The Show Must Go On, Headset Mania, Activity Goals on the Apple Watch and Everything You Wanted to Know About Aira but Were Afraid to Ask! Welcome Jenine Stanley

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Meet 14 Year Old Ryan Lukowicz – - Future Meteorologist and Creator of the Behind the Weather Forecast Podcast

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Build Confidence, Explore Career Possibilities, and Expand Horizons of Opportunity – Meet Pre-Employment Transition Services Counselor Travis Mashuga

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Assistive Technology Specialist Jesse Anderson and State Services for the Blind Go Virtual in Providing Transition Services to Students

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Tech Abilities: SeeingAI Swiss Army Knife Adds LiDAR, Facebook About Faces Apple, Apple Car Waiting Continues, Multiple Users on Your iPhone? Is Fitness Plus Actually Fitness Less?

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See3D: 3D Printing for the Blind and Visually Impaired. An Insightful Perception Through Touch. Let's Get Involved!

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Explore with LiDAR on the New World Channel in the latest SeeingAI Update – Demo Included

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Author Cheryl McNeil Fisher talks Publishing and Authoring Books, Getting a Guide Dog and Experiencing Google's Project Guideline, a Partnership Project with Guiding Eyes for the Blind

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Coming Soon! Super Lidar – The First Lidar App for iPhone 12 Pro Series. LiDAR – Light Distance and Ranging from the Makers of Supersense AI for the Blind

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Supersence – AI for Blind: A Smart Scanner App that Automatically Detects Text, Currency, Barcodes and Much More! Meet Shane Lowe – Community Manager at Supersence

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Halos Tactile Icons - Meet Anne DeWitt: Tactile Icon Stickers for Your Microwave, Washer, Dryer, Oven, Dishwasher and More!

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The American Council of the Blind (ACB): A Look at this Important Organization at the National Level, Audio Description, ACB Radio and the Upcoming Minnesota ACB Convention

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Tech Abilities: Girls Talk Tech and There's Just 1 JT. Fitness Plus About to Drop, Air Pod Max Go Ching-Ching, Blind, a Noun, Adjective or just a 5-Letter Word? What about Flying Dogs?

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Envision AI – Winter Sale 35% OFF, 14-Day Free Trial and a Chance to Win Envision Glasses! Karthik Kannan from Envision Talks OCR, Column Detection, Translating and the Now Available Envision Glasses

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Apple Accessibility - Built‑in Features that Work the Way You Do. Make Them Yours, and Make Something Wonderful.. A Conversation with Sarah Herrlinger, Apple's Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives

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Meet Pardy Gill: A Journey of Denial and Acceptance of Blindness and His Battle with COVID-19

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Tech Abilities: Talk Less, Smile More - Find My What? Keys to the Kingdom? 5G or Not to 5G? Mac Now or mac Later?

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Tech Abilities: Girl, Girl, Girl, Oh Boy, Big Sir Control Center, Magnifier People Detection, PC vs Mac Fight, Stitch Fixed, Accessible Shopping and Google Photos App Storage is Gonna Cost Yah!

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Blind Cricket: Through Enthusiasm and a Shared Passion, Brittany and Riley are Raising Awareness and You Can Help Them Bring the Game to the U.S.

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College Continues from a Distance, Know Your Tech!: Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 22 – Sammie Shipman, from California

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Tech Abilities One More Thing Before That One More Thing. Accessible Rowing, Apple One, Could it Kill off Dropbox? Have You Found My Air Tag? If I had a Million…

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Tech Has the Power to Change Lives, Especially People with Disabilities – Meet Kiran Kaja: Google's Accessibility Lead for Search, Assistant and News

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Tech Abilities: Put on Your Halos, Pacific Blue is True as the iPhone 12 Pro. One Newbie, One Gremlin and Some T-Vision to Boot. HBO What?

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Bridging the Distance: NVDACon 2020 December 5 and 6. Learn about the Free NVDA Screenreader and the Upcoming NVDA Conference.

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective (Episode 21): Gerardo Corripio - Describing the Dichotomy of the Corona Experience in Mexico

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A Different Way of Seeing (Second Edition): Author Lois Strachan is Living an ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way. Pre-Order on Amazon Today!

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Tech Abilities: How is Your Apple Picking Going? Finally, an Apple Smart Speaker, or Is It? Is Prime Really Prime? Is the iPhone Really Just a Subscription Plan? Lidar is Cool!

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Ana Sikhashvili Shines a Light on her Student Exchange Experience in the U.S. and Attending Minnesota Academy for the Blind and How She is Bringing it All Back Home to the Republic of Georgia

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Around the World with COVID-19 – Episode 20: Breaking Out of Years of Self-Limiting Excuses, Nick D'Ambrosio Steps Out into the Pandemic with a Passion for Self-Determination

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The Organizations of the Blind and Visually Impaired Series (Episode 1) – The Keystone Chapter Of the NFB of Pennsylvania and the Virtual Talent Show October 17 at 7 PM EST

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GoodMaps: Making the World More Accessible One Place at a Time - Indoor and Outdoor Navigation in the Palm of Your Hand

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Meet Tech Enthusiast Rita Howells from Rita's iDevice Advice – Taking Accessibility Recumbent Style and Sharing 33 years of Tech Know-How

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Kristy Has Gone viral! YouTuber, Kristy Viers, Talks Braille Screen Input, Dystopia Beta, 3D Printing, College and a Little about Cats

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YouTube Creator, Musician and College Student, Gabby Mendonca is Breaking Down Barriers and Sharing Her Journey World-Wide

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Around the World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 19: Manique Gunaratne, from Sri Lanka - Success is not Inclusive for All

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It's Just Life… Now. Meet Hilda Dunford – Mother of a Child Who Happens to be Blind. @OurBlindSide on Instagram

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TechAbilities: After the Dust Settles in the Apple Orchard, Along Comes Serina, Raqi and Jeffy AppleSeed

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Into Adulthood: Voting Rights for Youth with Disabilities

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 18: Paul Mugambi - The State of Affairs for Disabled Persons in the Pandemic Era in Kenya

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Around the World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 17: Brigitte Lablache, Seychelles - Living in Paradise in the Midst of a Pandemic

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Mac For The Blind: Instructional Courses for Anything Apple - Meet John Panarese. New Classes Starting Soon! Register Now!

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That "Tech Abilities" Show: Time Flies - Apple Event Sept. 15 -, iOS 14 Tidbits, Faster TV and Welcome Raqi G

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Around the World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 16: Alvaro Gutierrez, Reporting on the Progression of Corona in a Very Different Society and Culture

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Introducing Laura Wolke: From an Unsatisfied Job to Law Student to Lawyer to Clerk of the US Supreme Court… and, an "Old Friend"

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New! Adding Alt-Text to Images in Facebook. A TechAbilities Demo Breakout

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TechAbilities: Global Settings for Podcast, The Apple Orchard Goes Privacy Wild, Facebook Finally Puts Alt Text into the Workflow and iOS Betas are Kinda Cool, Um, Sometimes

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Sustainability is Fueling Aira's Future. Aira Gift Cards Roll Out and a Plan and 5 Minutes Free for Everyone Explained by Aira CEO, Troy Otillio, and Operations Manager, Ryan Bresnahan

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Come Join the Revolution and Reveal the Creative Greatness Within You. Meet Marilee Talkington - Founder and Executive Director of Access Acting Academy

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Born Blind to Inspire: YouTube Channel Creator, Mom, Gardener and Author – From Ukraine to Down Under - Meet Olga Itsanko-Mahler

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective (Episode 15) with Chelsie Reid - Keeping Busy and Fighting Off Depression and Anxiety in New York City

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Around the World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective - Episode 14: Hiroyuki Shinagawa from Japan, "Konichiwa from Osaka"

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Access and Engagement to Education and Flatten Inaccessibility Surveys: Meet Dr. L. Penny Rosenblum, Director of Research, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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Opening Doors to Opportunities for Transition Age Students: Meet Career Discovery Project Program Director and Author, Jon Marin

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Conversation with a View. Meet Christine Malec and JJ Hunt – Creators of the New Podcast "Talk Description to Me".

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Envision Glass - Let the Glasses Speak to You! A Look Through the Envision Glasses and the EnvisionAI App. Get 10% Off! Use BlindAbilities10 at Checkout!

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective Episode 13 - Tim McIsaac: A Different Perspective from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective: Jo Fishwick, Checking In with Care and Stepping Out with Caution - Devon, England

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Around The World with COVID-19 from a Blindness Perspective: Michael Babcock, - Work, Life and Family. Coquille, Oregon