Global Access Awareness Day May 16 2019

Just a reminder that this is coming up soon, and is a great way of not only raising awareness of digital accessibility, but celebrating the changes that have already been achieved.

If you stick in Global Access Awareness Day 2019 in to your fav search engine, you’ll certainly find a lot of events going on.

https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org

May 16 2019.

Another Recent Purchase: Samsung Power Buds

My thoughts on the Samsung Power Buds, especially when compared to my AirPods and bone conduction head phones.

Outline Reader URL

This is like the Reader function in Safari where all the html stuff is removed from an article page: in this case just stick in the URL to read the article.

https://outline.com

Mac and Windows Endless  Scroller Game

A developer is developing this app for Mac and Windows and would like some feedback on the app, so play for free with the beta and give some feedback..  Basically a shooter game.

https://www.applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-app-discussion/announcing-beta-my-first-cross-platform-side-scroller-game-both-mac

Amazon Alexa for iOS Finally Fix’s The Issue For VoiceOver Users in the Skills/Games Tab (Now Works)

Before the latest update to this iOS app, the controls in the Skills/Games link wasn’t reading at all properly with VoiceOver, well, it now reads properly with VoiceOver which makes it of course much more usable again.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-alexa/id944011620?mt=8

A Odd but Great Siri Short-Cut

A Great Siri Shortcut: Hey Siri to Hey Ok Google

Minimising My Music Streaming Services

Finally got around to trimming down my streaming services to Apple Music and Spotify rather than also having Amazon Music, and Google Play Music: don’t really need all of them.  Spotify covers my Amazon Echo and the Google Home, and Apple Music is what the rest of the family uses.