Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more

Blind Bargains Audio: Featuring the BB Qast, Technology news, Interviews, and more


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Blind Bargains Qast 174: Rick And Morty Laundry Adventures
March 01, 2019

Welcome to our first installment of BBQ Bites (spelling under construction.) It's a new show format that we are taking out for a test spin. In these smaller length podcasts you will find a deeper dive into a subject than we would usually do on our

Blind Bargains Qast 173: Alien Probing Cane
February 18, 2019

J.J. is back from Orlando with the interview that got away from him at ATIA, Bardo Hoffmann Of VisioBraille. We also have a product review in "Sound Off", a ton of news along with a couple of Joe's tweets that influenced a Windows Tip and J.J.'s contribut

#ATIA19 Audio: Command Multiple Devices With The HIMS QBraille XL
February 14, 2019

At ACB 2018 we caught up with Jenny Axler to learn about the debut of the QBraille XL. The hybrid device is now shipping and on display at ATIA19. J.J. caught up with Damion Pickering and Earl Harrison of HIMS, to talk about how the QWERTY keyboard Braill

#ATIA19 Audio: Aces Are Hight For The Acesight And Zoomax
February 13, 2019

David Bradburn, President of Zoomax USA, on BBQ 153

#ATIA19 Audio: Humanware Pulls Back The Curtain On Their Reveal 16 Video Magnifier
February 13, 2019

We speculated in BBQ 172 about the features of Humanware s newest Video Magnifier with the idea that we would learn more when J.J. traveled to ATIA. Enter Eric Beauchamp , Product Manager For Low Vision Devices, who stepped into the Humanware suite with

#ATIA19 Audio: IRIE-AT Is Totally Your Braille Buddy When It Comes To Phones And Video Magnifiers?
February 12, 2019

The cool thing about ATIA is that you can sometimes get an early look at an upcoming product before it arrives at the summer shows. Jeff Gardner, CEO of IRIE-AT, gave J.J. a look at a prototype video magnifier called the Read Easy Evolve. Hear a descripti

#ATIA19 Audio: Becoming Modern With Microsoft And Low Vision Access In Windows
February 11, 2019

Microsoft has been steadily adding features and enhancements to Windows 10 over the course of a series of Spring and Fall updates. Braille support, speech during the installation process and having the ability to use Narrator in safe mode are just some of

#ATIA19 Audio: There Is More Described And Captioned Media Out There Thanks To The DCMP
February 11, 2019

Many of us consider the rise of Audio Description and Caption services as something that came about recently. However, what if we told you that early forms of these services date back to 1958? In this interview Kyle Sisk, Information Systems Manager for t

#ATIA19 Audio: Dolphin Can Guide And Connect You With Greater Ease
February 10, 2019

Gareth Collins, Tech Support Manager for Dolphin, is no stranger to the BBQ microphones as we try to catch up with him at each of the major Blindness and Low Vision events. This time around Mr. Collins has much to bring J.J. up to speed on with Dolphin as

#ATIA19 Audio: The Neil Squire Society Is Leveraging Open Source To Help Makers Making Change
February 08, 2019

Many people are familiar with the phrase one size does not fit all. There can be many good solutions out there to solving a problem. And that philosophy is what fuels the DIY community to creatively accomplish tasks outside of the typical mainstream me