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Today, everyone is talking about Twitter and the blue tick, but what is the blue tick and why is everyone so excited (or angry) about it? Steven and Shaun discuss its merits.

Also, there’s more of your feedback and an in-depth conversation with Charles Leclerq from ARx Vision, who we featured on the most recent episode of Double Tap TV. In this extended conversation, Charles tells Steven about the new upcoming features of ARx and how it will be maintained as a product over the next few years among upcoming and potentially heavy competition.

Your feedback means everything to us. Keep it coming - email [email protected] or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

Today on the show, Steven and Shaun discuss some of the big accessibility tech stories out there including the news that, according to an article from The Verge, Microsoft nearly shelved the Xbox Adaptive Controller before it was launched.

Also, there's news from Shaun on the classic screen reader voice eSpeak coming to the iPhone as a third-party application, but Steven doesn't seem too impressed!

And there's more of your feedback, including the suggestion of a great little candy bar-style phone called the Mini Vision 2 that is totally accessible, and a comment on the cost of iPhones vs. Android phones and the use of Android gestures.

Keep your feedback coming by emailing [email protected] or calling 1-877-803-4567 and leaving us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

Today, the Double Tap team gets together to discuss how Twitter will be affected by the news it has been taken over by Tesla founder, and owner of SpaceX, Elon Musk. Joining Steven and Shaun for the discussion is Robin Christopherson, long-time friend and contributor to the show.

We also review your feedback, and hopefully, answer your questions.

Keep the feedback coming! Email us at [email protected] or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

Today, Steven and Shaun read through more of your feedback, including comments about light-up canes recommended by Steven, another way to use the new VO F7 command in Mac OS Ventura, and a simple solution to solve PC issues.

Also, listener and contributor Aaron Hewitt joins Steven later in the show to discuss the new Google Pixel Watch and offers his perspectives on the new device.

As always, your feedback is important so please do email [email protected] or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

On the show today is a mix of topics, including a discussion on the best microphones to record a podcast with. Following Steven’s upgrade to a new USB microphone he wants to tell us about, he and Shaun talk about their microphones of choice.

Plus, there are lots of rumours circulating about a new iPad due to be launched in 2023 that will supposedly be 16 inches in size. Does this mean that the Mac OS, at long last, is coming to the iPad?

And listener Matthew Horspool stuns us with a demo of some little-known features of the Braille Screen Input feature on iOS.

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Today on the show, Steven and Shaun discuss the various accessibility features found inside the new version of Ventura, Apple’s Mac operating system.

Plus, we read more of your emails, including a fabulous podcast suggestion from listener Biggles, and thoughts on Amazon Echo security from Eleanor.

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It’s another big conversation about Braille today on the show, with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece meeting a developer who talks candidly about the app-making process and how machine learning is making it possible to do some really cool things.

Aaron Stephenson joins the guys to talk about his app, called Braille Scanner App, an application that aims to make it possible for someone to read Braille despite not being able to understand the code. It uses the camera on your smartphone to identify the Braille code and audibly read it back.

Plus, there’s more of your feedback and questions. Keep them coming by emailing [email protected] or calling 1-877-803-4567 and leaving us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

Today, Steven and Shaun return to a rather bulging Inbox and plenty of questions to answer ... especially aimed at our Shaun!

But the big conversation is all about web accessibility. Following a successful A11y/TO conference in Toronto recently, the guys discuss how the web can be made to be more accessible. Samuel Proulx from Fable joins the team to discuss his experience at the conference, and what he learned as a result of it.

As always, your feedback is important. Email us at [email protected] or call 1-877-803-4567 and leave us a voicemail. You can also find us across social media @DoubleTapOnAir.

Today, we review two top pieces of specialist tech that can help blind and partially sighted people out and about, or at home hands-free.

Shaun talks about his ARX headset experiences and discusses the device's upsides and downsides.

Also, listener Kevin Chao talks about his experience with the Envision Glasses.

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