Steven Scott

Listen in for news on Aira’s meta glasses rollout and Orbits pricing of its new devices. @doubletap@tweesecake.social

Trying not to be a bad blind person laughing at those poor folks who don’t like the MacBook Neo because it doesn’t have a backlit keyboard.

So I’ve managed to make a right old cows ear of my screen reader setup. Tried to downgrade from NVDA beta to good old regular NVDA but I’ve killed it entirely. Delete everything and start again I say! Well uninstall the NVDA installs I mean!

I’m joining the #blind recording brigade of those who have Zoom recorders. While I don’t rate their i-built mics very highly for interview recording, but I totally get how good they are for musicians and such, i will be able to add my own microphone via XLR and for once actually know the damn thing is recording! I’ve opted for the H4e - I was tempted by the H6e but honestly I doubt I’d ever use the ports so this seemed the sensible choice for me.

I’m aware that #FastPlay is a fantastic audio player and is rightfully getting rave reviews. I am clearly missing it but I’m wondering if someone can tell me if it able to play audio at 2 or 3 times speed. I often use QuickTime on the Mac to play audio double speed by using the J K and L keys and I’m looking for something similar on the PC. Does Fast Play do this? Thanks!!

Ok I won't say too much but WinTalker is brilliant.

Ok folks. What’s the best portable Bluetooth speaker for on the road?

I’m honoured once again to be invited to the incredible Zero Project Conference in Vienna, Austria from the 18th-20th of February. It’s a terrific opportunity to learn about amazing people doing amazing things across the disability sectors. I look forward to coming back with lots of stories to tell.

It’s interesting to read the upset over the Copilot key on Windows computers. Something neat I found on the Surface laptop I have is if you have the function key enabled, as I do so I can use F1, F2 etc as standard keys, the Copilot key acts as the application key as I’d prefer. However if I turn off the function key it is the copilot key. Perhaps this is common knowledge or that behaviour is unique to Surface laptops but I thought I’d share anyway.