Google and Microsoft may have some new hardware coming in a week or two. So Joe and J.J. thought why not play a game and read social media from the web to pass the time before the next big tech event lands, enticing all to drain their bank accounts this holiday season? And why not go ahead and throw in a tip, "Sound Off" and possibly our most retweeted "last Word" story ever? Sure, let's do that and perhaps a little bit more in episode 33.
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In The News:
Ai Squared releases their Windows 10 support for Zoom Text in their latest public preview
Windows 10 support has also come to Freedom Scientific's Magic Screen Magnifier
11-year-old Science Student Finalist in Nationwide Competition for Accessible Chemistry Tool
Blind Computer Science Grads Invited to Take Survey about their Experience
Help out our fellow Assistive Technology podcasters over at the @INDATAproject develop their new app with this five minute survey
New App Voice Braille Reader Can Speak your Downloaded Braille Files Including BARD Downloads
APH and Orbit Research Partner to Release Another Calculator of the Scientific Variety
Follow the @mathml3 account to learn more about HTML 5 web based math
Acapela TTS Voices for NVDA v1.2: includes new localizations & voices (children & character)
The amazing @AppleVis team has been all kinds of busy with tutorials and guides for iOS 9, however, this new guide on VO and Xcode is worth a read for those wanting to get more into Apple development
According to this tweet from the Microsoft Access account, we may be hearing Narrator on the Xbox One soon. "@MSFTEnable Narrator, high contrast, closed captions and more | Xbox One update via @majornelson video:
FCC Extends ACS Waiver for Video Game Software:
@64ozGames: Very excited to form a new partnership with @CalliopeGames. We will be adding many of their titles to our catalog in the next month or so
Demonstration: Codename Sygnus
you are an Agent on a secret mission with only your iDevice on hand to see you through. You must wind your way through this "Choose Your Own Adventure" app by either being clever, bold, acrobatic or stealthy. The controls are high contrast and Voiceover friendly. So you should have no trouble at all navigating through the choices in front of you. Try not to become too attached to anyone you meet in this full cast audio based experience as spying is a dangerous game. That ally might not be a friend and a foe might just help you survive. Good luck Agent!
Demonstration: Twitter On the Web
Recently Twitter has been changing the way that their service works with 3rd party apps. there are a lot of ways to access Twitter from an Android, iOS-based device or even a Mac or Windows based PC. J.J. shows us how one can use NVDA with Twitter on the web in this demo. it might be the ticket out of using wonky Twitter clients or it may end up being a good backup solution. In either case, Twitter provides some usability on the web and it is another good tool to have in your social media arsenal.
Here's an article on Twitter's keyboard shortcuts from LifeHacker
Tip: Siri Sounds Funny
We've got a simple Siri tip from Joe this week regarding Siri and languages, for the many of you who have upgraded to iOS 9.
Sound Off:
This week we'll feature some remarks from our previous Comment sections. First up, from episode 30, some guy we know named Buddy Brannan fills us in on a few perils when it comes to using new tech to connect old tech.

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