EBU Access Cast 10

EBU Access Cast

Welcome to the 10th EBU Access Cast. We are extremely happy that our podcast reached the 10th Episode so far, and we hope that we will keep you interested in the future as well. For you this time Mario, Jakob and Tanja prepared lots of goodies and Bart was very busy with preparing 3 nice interviews which you can listen in the second half of this Episode. But before the interviews, let's check what's new in the news Section.

• New option called accessibility events appeared under accessibility settings in the newest version for Voice Over users on Mac and iOS. While potentially this can be a nice feature which could help developers to detect that the user is using assistive Technologies on their web sites, the option is concerned as a privacy issue for some users.
• Another very nice app called Voice Dream Scanner which is able to do very good and fast OCR recognition recently appeared on the appstore, so Jakob told us his Opinion about it. You can check out more here and listen to a podcast with demonstration of the Voice Dream Scanner.
• New update for NVDA appeared as well from NVAccess, and this time it fixes a few bugs found in the original NVDA 2019.1 version.
• Android Accessibility Suite 7.3 adds Screen Search, more continuous reading options.

Next month many Europeans will vote on the European elections. However when we talk about persons with dissabilities, we have to make sure that the voting system in each countrey is accessible so we can participate in the elections as everyone else. Jakob, Mario, Tanja and Bart share their experiences about it from their perspective, and we are also bringing to you further links in the shownotes about this particular topic:

• EBU Statement on the European elections 2019
• A fundamental right to vote: Removing barriers for people with disabilities
• EDF recommends 10 REASONS TO VOTE IN THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS to persons with disabilities
• EDF petition European elections for all

Last month in our previous episode, we covered the European Accessibility Act which in the meantime was adopted by the European Council.

Next week, some of us will visit Sight City, the biggest exhibition for assistive tech products in Europe, and we hope to bring you nice interviews from there. Click here to know more about Sight City.

Bart prepared 3 interviews for us this time:

• Interview with Susanna Laurin, recorded at the 11th edition of the Funka Accessibility Days in Stockholm: Susanna Laurin on Twitter:
• Interview with Saqib Shaikh, main person behind Seeing AI app, recorded at an accessibility summit organised by Microsoft in Brussels. Saqib Shaikh on Twitter:
• Interview with Jarnail Chudge, main person behind the Soundscapes app, recorded at an accessibility summit organised by Microsoft in Brussels: Jarnail Chudge on Twitter

We are always happy to receive new contributions and suggestions from you, so if you got any comments or suggestions for us, contact us thru our e-mail link or send us a tweet on the Ebuaccesscast Twitter.