In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason, Alex Hall, Tyler Stephen, and Scott Davert get together to discuss Apple's 'California Streaming' September 14, 2021 Keynote.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15.

Topics covered include:

• Live Text
• Exploring images with VoiceOver
• Voice image descriptions with markup
• New navigation method for VoiceOver - Grouped
• VoiceOver Quick Settings
• Sound Actions for Switch Control
• Background Sounds
• Per-app settings
• Audiograms
• Standalone Magnifier app
• Accessibility Memoji
• New Voice Control languages
• Siri on-device speech processing
• Neural text-to-speech voice in more languages for Siri
• Maintaining context with Siri
• Refer to contacts onscreen with Siri
• Siri Offline support
• Sharing with Siri
• Home screen page management
• Focus modes
• Add Recovery Account for iCloud
• Legacy Contacts (coming in a later release)
• iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email
• Redesigned start page for Safari
• Safari tab bar
• Safari tab groups
• Support for extensions in Safari
• New pull to refresh VoiceOver gesture
• Secure browsing for Safari
• Temporary iCloud storage
• Notification summary
• Notification options
• New and improved Weather details
• Rain and snow alerts
• Live Locations
• Find My separation alerts
• Find My network
• Request a refund for in-app purchases
• Improvements to AirPrint
• New widgets
• Health sharing
• Walking steadiness
• Photo stacks, collages, and pinned content in Messages
• 'Spatialize Stereo
• built-in password authenticator
• Skip gaps in Voice Memos
• FaceTime links and Join FaceTime calls from the web on Android and Windows
• Portrait mode for videos in FaceTime
• Mute alerts in FaceTime
• Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum modes in FaceTime

In this podcast, Majid gives us a demonstration of Eclipse, an integrated development environment (IDE).

The Eclipse platform which provides the foundation for the Eclipse IDE is written in Java and is designed to be extensible using additional plugins. It can be used to develop rich client applications, integrated development environments and other tools. Eclipse can be used as an IDE for any programming language for which a plug-in is available.

Although not perfect in regards to accessibility, Majid demonstrates how Eclipse can be used by users of VoiceOver on macOS.

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• FlickType Pulling iPhone Keyboard App After Continued Rejection Issues
• iPhone 13, AirPods 3, Apple Watch Series 7, and iPad mini 6 Launching this Fall
• Apple could hike price of iPhone 13 to cover increasing chip costs
• 'iPhone 13' Apple Event date & launch timeline revealed by leaker
• Will iPhone 13 be enough of an upgrade?
• 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros Finally Enter Mass Production
• Notes of interest from Apple's Q3 2021 earnings report and conference call
• Even With iOS 15 Coming Soon, Apple Appears to Be Working on an iOS 14.8 Update
• Apple says Share Play won't be included in the initial iOS 15 release this fall
• Voice Reader Speech Central

You can email the Unleashed team with feedback or questions at [email protected]

Alternatively, you can leave a voice message for the team by calling 1-816-774-1668 (note that this is a United States number, so call charges may apply depending upon your call plan and location).

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Fantasy Premier League is a massively popular game based on the English Premier League, enjoyed by millions around the world.

We look mainly at the Official Premier League app, but also at the official website in Safari for some tasks.

In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a walk-through and demonstration of NaadSadhana, an artificial Intelligence music app for iOS that helps Indian Classical musicians tune, synthesise and create music.

Key features:

• NaadSadhana will create and play music automatically as you sing or play, on 10 Instruments, 8 Genres, using artificial intelligence.
• NaadSadhana records your music at studio quality, in full multi-track sessions.
• Everything you need for the perfect practice session is absolutely FREE
• NaadSadhana guides your notes and tempo using visual-biofeedback. Tanpuras, Surpeti, Precision Tuner with 3 levels, Score and Statistics, Metronome, Beat Gauge, 5 Octave Keyboard, 136+ Ragas/Scales, and much more.

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• Club AppleVis
• Apple is Allegedly Making Employees Wear Police-Grade Body Cameras to Prevent Leaks
• Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack: Everything You Need to Know
• Apple suppliers gearing up for new AirPods, MacBook Pro releases in late 2021
• Apple to boost 'iPhone 13' production to 90M units in 2021
• New 'iPhone SE 3' expected in early 2022, says supply chain sources
• Kuo: 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro to Enter into Mass Production in Q3 2021
• Apple will debut AirPods Pro 2 next year according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
• Non-invasive blood sugar measurement announced by Apple supplier Rockley
• iPhone 13 (2021): Rumors, release date, price, features, and more
• LiDAR to Remain Exclusive to iPhone 13 Pro/Max [Rumor]
• Apple Rumored to Give iPhone Much Faster Wi-Fi 6e
• Apple Releases iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7; Bringing Support for Apple's New MagSafe Battery Pack and Other Minor Enhancements
• Clubhouse is no longer invite-only
• Alexa finally gets a masculine-sounding voice option

You can email the Unleashed team with feedback or questions at [email protected]

Alternatively, you can leave a voice message for the team by calling 1-816-774-1668 (note that this is a United States number, so call charges may apply depending upon your call plan and location).

In this update to his previous podcasts on braille, Scott Davert gives us some general information about braille displays as they relate to their use with iOS devices. He then talks about connecting a braille display using USB and then Bluetooth. Further, the braille menu under VoiceOver Settings, navigational commands, text input, how to set up auto scroll, and how to get additional help are all covered.

Links mentioned in the podcast include:

Apple's support page covering Common braille commands for VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod

Apple's support article listing Bluetooth keyboard commands for iOS and iPadOS

Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter

A roughly edited transcript of the podcast follows.

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Opening announcement: You're listening to the AppleVis Podcast.

Scott Davert: Hey, everybody, Scott Davert here. I'm going to record this podcast on using Braille displays with iOS devices. Now if you've been around AppleVis and the AppleVis Podcast for many years, you may recall that I already did this podcast. However, I did that podcast back in January of 2016. Now that we're five iOS releases later, and five years later in terms of the technology, of course, many things have changed, even some of the most basic level.

What are we covering in this podcast? That's always a good question to ask yourself before, and hopefully the person recording it gives you an idea. What we're going to be covering in this podcast is, first of all, general information about Braille displays and what connects and what doesn't. Then we'll talk about connecting both through Bluetooth and USB. We'll go through the Braille Display menu on iOS. We'll talk about navigation in terms of getting around your various home screens, activating apps, and so on and so forth. From there, we'll go into text editing very briefly. We'll talk about how to get help because we all need that once in a while, and setting up auto scroll.

The first topic, general information, well, pretty much any Braille display made within the last 10 years. I say pretty much because there may be one out there somewhere that I'm not aware of that doesn't support iOS. To my knowledge, all of the Braille displays on the market do support iOS and voice-over. What you will have to make sure is that you're running a compatible version of iOS.

For example, if you are running one of the new Humanware displays, they recommend that you run iOS 13.6 or later. The new Orbit 40, Orbit Reader 40, I should say, emulates a VarioUltra, which means the Orbit Reader 40 supports iOS devices, going back to, I want to say, 8.3, it may have been 8.4, or something like that. Anyway, whatever it is, it goes back many iOS versions. The focus fifth-generation supported iOS, I want to say, with maybe iOS nine. I don't remember exactly on that one.

Anyway, point being is, check with your user documentation if…

Did you know that you can take an electrocardiogram (ECG) with the ECG app on your Apple Watch? You came to the right place as Thomas Domville will show us how to take an ECG on the Apple Watch.

In this podcast Thomas Domville will show you how to stop your iPhone from going to sleep too quickly or if you simply want to change your Lock screen settings to turn off Auto-Lock or change how quickly your screen dims to increase your iPhone lock screen duration. This podcast is for you.