93: The Last Show
Subtitle: Picking your accessibility battles Today, we offer an all-star panel of podcasters and tech pundits with a lot to say about the fi...
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Why don’t the worlds of mainstream tech and accessibility tech ever seem to collide? Shelly, who keeps one foot in each, wants to know. She and her guests from both worlds chew over the news...
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20 of 94 episodes92: Dystopian Skynet Future – Sometime Next Year
Subtitle: Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024 What are the takeaways from Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD 2024? We highlight ac...
91: I'm VR Curious
Zoe Knox bought a Vision Pro when they first became available, anticipating that Apple's headset would provide accessibility features. How t...
90: I Want to Pinch and Zoom the World
Subtitle: Hands-On with Apple Vision Pro Accessibility Apple's Vision Pro headset offers a number of accessibility features. But how well do...
89: Low Vision Pro
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 use...
88: How Hard Could XCode Be?
How a young entrepreneur turned her own technology need into an app designed for other people with low-vision. Guest Starring: Rebecca Rosen...
87: A Fish On Your Washing Machine
What's the significance of Apple's iPhone 15 lineup, from an accessibility point of view? Guest Starring: Steven Scott Links and Show Notes:...
86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind
Andrew Leland's memoir "The Country of the Blind" tells a story about his ongoing journey into vision loss. It's also a kind of history of b...
85: AI Will Not Fix Accessibility
Even before ChatGPT brought AI into the mainstream of collective consciousness, companies touted artificial intelligence as a way to make yo...
84: Now that We've Had Some Time to Process...
My colleagues from the Maccessibility Roundtable join me for a conversation about Apple's Vision Pro and accessibility. We still don't know...
83: AI, AI, IO
Taking a look back at this year's Google I/O events, with an eye toward accessibility. Our favorite followers of the Goog are back! We talk...
82: Entirely Individualistic Low-Vision Girl
This week, Apple previewed accessibility features coming to the Mac and iOS. It's an annual event, which even sat briefly atop TechMeme. Wan...
81: Tools and Tips for Mobile App Developers
iOS developer Rob Whitaker returns to Parallel for a chat about APIs and tools developers can use to make their mobile apps more accessible.
80: When Success Means Buying A Smaller Suit
Starting or maintaining a fitness program is a challenge for anyone. If you have accessibility needs, you might experience barriers related...
79: Story Book
Ten iOSes ago, I wrote a book called iOS Access for All. Here's how it has evolved over the years.
78: So Many Thoughts and Feelings
AppleVis, an excellent community of blind and visually-impaired Apple users, surveyed its members to get their thoughts on how well Apple's...
77: What is CSS Speech?
What if you could design the experience of listening to Web content in the same way you design the experience of seeing it? That's the premi...
76: Some of My Automations are Fragile
We're talking automation - mostly on macOS, with developer Brett Terpstra and fellow automation fan Darcy Burnard.
75: A Deep Dive into WCAG 2.2. And Beyond.
The W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG – is the standard against which Web developers test for accessibility. Like most good...
74: The Swipey on the Stem
Parallel is back from summer break, and glad to be! We gather to review Apple's latest hardware announcements: do we like them, do we want t...