The Canadian Council of the Blind Podcast

Peter gives a presentation on the latest in Humanware products and updates.
Lots of discussion on braille displays and the Victor trek.
Lots of great questions and discussion following the presentation

Wayn gives us an overview of the Mac. Comparing and explaining the learning curve experienced when transitioning to Windows. He explains some key concepts and key commands. Following are some great questions and further explanations by others.
Information packed a   s always. Please reach out to Kim Kilpatrick for information regarding the book Wayn mentions

Kim Kilpatrick walks us through the benefits of using a Bluetooth keyboard with an iOS device. She discusses different kinds of Bluetooth keyboards as well as the utility of setting the caps lock key as another toggle for theVO keys.
She describes where to find important keys on the keyboard and goes through some useful voiceover key commands. She discusses and explains how to reassign the voiceover commands and discusses why this is useful.
This is an information packed podcast.
To request Kim's notes which she used during this presentation please contact her at gttprogram@gmail.com

Kim Kilpatrick describes each of the iOS gestures and what they do by default. Kim describes how to carry out certain gestures such as using the rotor and how a 2 finger skrub works. Following her presentation are some great questions and suggestions on how people carry out certain gestures.
To request Kim's notes on this topic please email her at
gttprogram@gmail.com

Kim Kilpatrick explains the different ways one can download books into voice dream reader. She discusses downloading books through Selah within the voice dream app. She discusses downloading books through Bookshare as well.
We learn how to create folders invoice stream to organize our books
Kim and others discuss how and what they use voice dream reader For.

Kim Kilpatrick gives a walk-through of voice dream reader and answers some of the common questions when it comes to downloading books.
A short discussion at the end of the episode about seeing AIand scanning applications

An introduction to using the easy reader app for iPhone.
Kim Kilpatrick shows us some of the basic function of easy read or and the basics of navigating the app