FlexiLingo
How AI Helps Blind People Build PowerPoint, Plus Alexa+ and Apple News
- Technology
PresentAble is a new JAWS app that lets blind people create, check and fix PowerPoint presentations on their own. Lawyer and trainer Jonathan Simeone explains why he built it. Before that, Steven and Shaun cover a storm, an AppleVis health app debate and Alexa+. A storm cut Shaun off from The Shed. Steven had to get home from the hospital across a busy road with no crossings, with the wind drowning out the traffic. Then an AppleVis thread about an app that uses the iPhone camera to check for blood in stool or urine starts a frank...
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Nevermind Artemis 2, we nearly lost contact with the shed. This is Double Tap, where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preeze. Boosh! I need a NASA out looking for you.
I needed a NASA. Yes. I lost all connection, digital that is, with the shed. of things. I know. Yes. I was panicking. Steven Scott. So we had a store, we had a storm here in the UK and it was a big one for the UK. And yeah, the shed went down. Not literally. Let me just say that still standing. Yeah. It's still standing. But, uh, I thought I was, um,
I thought all the power had gone and everything, but no, it's fine. It's all up and running again. don't panic. Yeah. Yeah.
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