Tek Talk

It can be scary to have your screen reader die on you, but a few preparation steps can save you a world of hassle. Deborah Armstrong will show you how to set up your Windows PC to cope when this occurs. Contact info: armstrongdeborah@deanza.edu

iBUG Today, Inc. is a non-profit organization promoting the individual independence, social integration, and educational development of the blind and visually impaired community across the country through accessible technology training. iBUG (iBlind Users Group) endeavors to transform the blind community through accessible technology training so they can live extraordinary lives full of independence, productivity, communication

Scribe is a product from Pneuma Solutions, formally Serotek Corporation, that brings some innovative technology for online meetings. Mike Calvo and Matt Campbell describe Scribe this way: The Quickest, Most Accurate Digital Document Remediation Product on the Market for as Low as $0.99 per Page. It’s the only hands-off remediation process eliminating individual document quote

Do to the storms our guest for tonight was unable to make it. So We will talk about Tek Talk Future.

Tek Talk welcomes David Goldfield to discuss the various email lists he has created, how he got into assistive technology, and his current role as a product manager with Comcast’s accessibility team. Some of the mailing lists David has created include Zoom-Users, Teams-Access for discussing Microsoft Teams, and, most recently, LarryKing-Fans for those interested in discussing

Tek Talk welcomes Shane Lowe from Mediate to discuss the Supersense app. Mediate is an up and coming app-development company with blindness at the forefront of what they do. Supersense, their flagship product, features an intuitive interface and innovative recognition technology to create the most efficient scanning experience possible, and Mediate is preparing to release

Tek Talk welcomes Barry Scheur from GuideLights and Gadgets and Chris Grabowski and Kim Loftis from Mystic Access to describe and demonstrate their exciting entry into the daisy player and entertainment market with the Evo 10 player. Priced at $150 below the cost of the Victor Stream, this product IS NOT BARD COMPATIBLE. What it

Tek Talk welcomes Chris Grabowski and Kim Loftis from Mystic Access to discuss their latest audio documentation projects including their eleven-plus hour Windows 10 tutorial, Amazon Fire Tablet tutorial, and a couple of awesome hardware products they now carry that they’re excited to tell you about. They will also give updates on projects in the

Tek Talk welcomes a representative from Envision AI . Envision, an award-winning assistive technology company, has announced the official launch of Envision Glasses, which are AI-powered smart glasses for blind and visually impaired people. Envisions software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to extract information from images and then speaks the images out loud so the user

Tek Talk welcomes Jeff Bishop and Larry Gassman to talk about podcasting. What is a Podcast? How do you find a podcast? Quite a bit of time will be spent looking at the iOS platform because most of us listen to podcasts using smart phones. We will discuss the podcasting applications available and the pros

Tek Talk is delighted to welcome back one of our own Tek Talk planning team members. Jeff Bishop is a product manager for Microsoft, and will be with us to talk about several key features in the May version release of Windows 10 including Windows Narrator. Jeff will also speak to us about new items

We are truly honored to welcome a dear and longtime friend of Tek Talk. She is Denise Russell the Founder of Speak To Me Catalog. This fine company was founded in July of 1994.   Denise and her late husband and dear friend Seth worked tirelessly over the years to expand this fine company.