In this podcast, Abby demonstrates BlindFold Word Cookie, which is one of the latest game titles available from Kid Friendly Software.

Your objective is to create as many words as possible using a set of letters.

In each cookie, there are from 5 to 20 levels. Each level has a set of letters, and you have to find all the words that can be created from those letters. You can use the letters multiple times.

For example, the practice cookie has one level, and has the letters "C", "A", "T". Words must be at least 2 letters long, so you can easily create the words CAT, ACT, and AT. Since you can use a letter multiple times, you can also create the word TAT by using the letter "T" twice and the word TATA by using the letters "T" and "A" twice.

Once you have completed a level, you move on to the next level. Once you have completed all the levels for a cookie, you move on to the next cookie.

In the first of what is planned to be a monthly series, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnakk and Mike Malarsie get together to talk about recent Apple news and topics of interest.

Topics featured in this podcast include:

The release of iOS 11.2.5
Apple AirPods
The release of Apple's HomePod smart speaker
What Is Apple ‘Text Bomb’ Bug? This Simple Message Crashes iPhones and Macs
Let Siri play you the latest news
Everything to Know About Apple Slowing iPhones Because of Old Batteries
Apple’s No Good Very Bad Security Quarter
Apple says Meltdown and Spectre flaws affect all Mac and iOS devices
Significant Apple investors put pressure on Apple to add better parental control features to iPhones and iPads
Apple made a section of the App Store to highlight apps that offer free trials
Swapping words for emoji using the VoiceOver rotor
Full Braille Display Support Comes To Blindfold Wildcard
new Huboodle app released by developers of Dice World

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IN this podcast, Scott Davert demonstrates and discusses the changes for braille display users in iOS 11 and later. How to set up type to Siri, braille captioning, how to customize braille keyboard commands, and the new settings in the braille menu are covered. A roughly edited transcript follows. Please note, This transcript was created soely for communication access. It is not a certified legal

For this demonstration, I'm using my iPhone 8 with iOS 11.2.1, and of course VoiceOver. The first few things I'll talk about here are just a few things that aren't really easy to demonstrate, but they might be important updates for you depending on your situation.

If you have a Focus fifth generation, iOS 11 brings support for that device. Whether you have the Focus 40, or the brand-new 14 that came out about a month ago, you will now have access with iOS 11, and later. So, for those of you who have those devices, you can be happy, and you probably already are happy, using your Focus display with your iOS device.

Another minor, but important update is the fact that emoticons are now accessible with braille displays. Speech users have been enjoying them for quite a while, and knowing all those smiling piles of poo that their young kids, or nephews, or whatever it is might send them, but as braille users they just showed up as a few symbols, and there was really no way to differentiate between one emoticon and another. That has been fixed in iOS 11.0.

Now, I'm gonna go ahead and get into the demonstration part of this podcast. The first thing I'm going to do is take you through how to set up captions, and talk a little bit about that. And we're gonna go ahead and go through the braille menu, and talk about those changes. Then I'll show you how to set up new commands, or assign commands functions, however you wanna look at that, and finally we'll wrap up.

So, I'm going to go ahead, and go directly to the VoiceOver menu. On my particular setup here, I am going to use a Backspace, Space with V. That is a command that I programmed in to take me directly to the VoiceOver menu.

VoiceOver: Settings, Accessibility, Back button.

In this podcast, Alex Hall, Tyler Stephen, Scott Davert, and Dave Nason recap the highlights of 2017 in the Apple ecosystem and beyond.

In this podcast, Marco shows us how to delete podcast episodes in the native Podcasts app, which had it's user interface overhauled in iOS11. The option to delete is not immediately obvious, so Marco shows us where to find it using the rotor actions menu or 3D touch.

If you enjoy word games, you'll love 7 Little Words, a fun and challenging game where you solve clues using the groups of letters provided. In this podcast, Abby introduces us to the game and takes us through one complete puzzle, consisting of seven clues. 7 Little Words is available in the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-little-words/id431434152?mt=8

In this podcast, Thomas Domville introduces us to Seeing AI, a free iOS app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world and describe nearby people, text and objects.

Optimized for use with VoiceOver, the app enables you to recognize:

Seeing AI on the App Store

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a walk-through and demonstration of Zany Touch, a Bop-It Style game for iOS.!”

The game tests your reflexes against faster and faster challenges. Listen for the instruction and do it as fast as you can -- touch, swipe up, swipe down, swipe left, swipe right, shake, pinch, and two finger touch.

FEATURES:

• Three difficulty settings: Easy, Medium, and Hard.
• Easy level uses three gestures. Medium level uses five. Hard level uses all eight.
• Tracks high scores and previous scores for each difficulty setting on the device.
• Post scores to Twitter and Facebook.
• Post scores and check your rankings with Apple Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
• Fully integrated with Voice Over to make this a great game for the blind and visually impaired.

In this podcast, Abby introduces us to Clever Clues, a free iOS app that is an addictive quiz game that challenges your knowledge and vocabulary. It’s like the saucy love child of a crossword and a word search.

Great exercise for keeping your brain active. The perfect antidote for boredom while on the train, plane, bus, car, tram, boat, sidecar or covered wagon. Easy to pick up while wasting time on your lunch break. Delicious with either coffee or tea breaks. Cuddly in bed on a wintery morning. Have 5 minutes to spare? Open Clever Clues for a quick fix!

If you love word games, crosswords, quizzes, word searches, anagrams or proving how clever you are, you'll be hooked on Clever Clues.

Clever Clues on the App Store