Parallel

Jun 25 2024 94 ep. 53 mins 912
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Why don’t the worlds of mainstream tech and accessibility tech ever seem to collide? Shelly Brisbin, who keeps one foot in each, wants to know. She and her guests from both worlds chew over the news and trends of the day, mixing in an accessibility perspective. Hosted by Shelly Brisbin.

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93: The Last Show

Jun 25 2024 90 mins  
Today, we offer an all-star panel of podcasters and tech pundits with a lot to say about the first 15 years of mobile accessibility from Apple. To my delight, the show veered hard into present and future topics. Also, Parallel says farewell.

92: Dystopian Skynet Future – Sometime Next Year

May 29 2024 53 mins  
What are the takeaways from Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD 2024? We highlight accessibility announcements from Apple and BeMyEyes.

91: I'm VR Curious

Mar 19 2024 59 mins  
Zach Knox bought a Vision Pro when they first became available, anticipating that Apple's headset would provide accessibility features. How those features might work with Zach's low vision? That was a big unknown.

90: I Want to Pinch and Zoom the World

Feb 13 2024 58 mins  
Apple's Vision Pro headset offers a number of accessibility features. But how well do they serve those with disabilities, and what should we expect from future versions of the product? Now we have some answers.

89: Low Vision Pro

Jan 09 2024 30 mins  
I spoke with Steven Scott and Shaun Preece for their show, Double Tap. They wanted my thoughts on how Apple's Vision Pro might land with users who have low vision. Steven kindly gave me permission to republish that conversation here.

88: How Hard Could XCode Be?

Nov 22 2023 49 mins  
How a young entrepreneur turned her own technology need into an app designed for other people with low-vision.

87: A Fish On Your Washing Machine

Oct 10 2023 68 mins  
What's the significance of Apple's iPhone 15 lineup, from an accessibility point of view?

86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind

Sep 12 2023 54 mins  
Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a history of blindness, and blindness tech, with stops along the way to unpack the literary deployments of vision loss by other writers.

85: AI Will Not Fix Accessibility

Jul 20 2023 44 mins  
Even before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream, companies touted it as a way to make web sites accessible – a magic bullet that meant web devs could skip the accessibility checks normally done by humans. But it doesn't work like that.

84: Now that We've Had Some Time to Process...

Jun 20 2023 47 mins  
My colleagues from the Maccessibility Roundtable join me for a conversation about Apple's Vision Pro and accessibility. We still don't know a lot, but be know more than we did an hour after the WWDC keynote.