Sight and Sound Technology Podcast

The DAISY Consortium's Music Braille project is a cross-sector collaboration to identify, prioritise, and deliver both short-term and long-term improvements to secure the future of music braille production and use. The project aims to ensure that more music braille scores are available more easily to more blind musicians world-wide. Stuart is joined on this episode by DR. Sarah Morley Wilkins, Pro...

The mission of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is to support better vision for all. Founded in 1629, the company is number 60 in the list of City of London Livery Companies by order of precedence. The company want to inspire future generations committed to visionary eye care, building upon their rich heritage of almost 400 years. On this episode Stuart sits down with the company's curre...

Stuart meets Sight and Sound Technology's Alan McGillivray,, Master of Ceremonies at this year's AT Ready festival.

Stuart is joined by Liam Pettitt from matchware, headline sponsors of the AT Ready festival.

Stuart catches up with George Rhodes, director of AllAble and keynote speaker at this year's AT Ready festival

Stuart is joined by Sight and Sound Technology's Head of Education Carolyne Smith, to help set the scene for this year's event.

Welcome to AT Ready 2022, an event providing disability professionals in Further and Higher Education the opportunity to share best practice, learn about new technologies and to hear from experts. Stuart introduces us to the event and a little about what we can look forward to on the next few mini podcast episodes.

BlindAmbition is an international disability training consultancy focused on improving the lives of disabled people. They work with everyone from multi-national market-leading technology companies, global retailers/manufacturers, National Governments to smaller charities and businesses. In short anyone who needs help improving the accessibility of their products, services and working environment f...

The Technology Association of Visually Impaired people (TAVIP) promotes, supports and encourages the use of technology amongst blind and partially sighted people. Stuart caught up with Mike Townsend and Julian Garner to learn more about the organisation and an interesting course they are developing to help blind and low vision people enter the workplace.

ARX Vision is a new and exciting wearable device that uses AI to describe the world around you. Stuart caught up with ARX Vision's CEO Charles Leclercq to find out more.

Sight Village is the UK's leading exhibition of Assistive Technology and services for people with sight loss. This week sees the return of Sight Village Central at the Cranmore Park Conference and Events Centre. Over the next two days we'll be producing mini episodes to give you a flavour of what's going on at this year's event. Stuart sets the scene on this introductory episode.

Molly Watt is a usability & Accessibility Consultant, as well as a keynote speaker. She  is a passionate advocate for accessibility and inclusion and she has also established,  with the help of her family, the Molly Watt Trust. Stuart caught up with Molly recently to learn all about her work, her thoughts on the  current state of accessibility in the digital landscape and her plans for the fut...

Established in Scotland 7 years ago, Getting AT Ready brings together Assistive Technology specialists, disability professionals and manufacturers to discuss best practice and build strategies to support students in Further and Higher education. Stuart is joined by Sight and Sound Technology's Carolyne Smith and Ruth Gallagher Carr to learn all about this year's event, which will take place in Gla...

Sandra Gayer is a blind/visually impaired Soprano, radio presenter, voiceover artist and actress. Stuart caught up with Sandra to talk about her life, the many aspects to her career and, of course, Braille music.

If you've been a subscriber of or are aware of the Top Tech Tidbits publication then you will likely be familiar with the name Dean Martineau. Dean, who started the publication in 2004 has become something of a household name in the blind community and has extensive experience with all sorts of assistive technology. Stuart sits down with him to learn a little about his use of technology, how he st...

Marco Zehe has been a well-known figure in the world of accessibility and assistive technology for well over 20 years. Having held positions with Mozilla and Freedom Scientific he has been instrumental in guiding the development of some of the technology that lots of us use today. Stuart sat down with Marco recently on the back of a review that Marco posted to twitter, following his testing of the...

Last year we introduced Mark Belcher, and the wonderful resource that is Henshaws Knowledge Village, providing a one stop point of info on all things relating to sight loss. Now, Mark returns to update us on some initiatives to make NHS services more accessible, and, Henshaws have also been participating in an interesting project called Travel Assist.

This session gives a comprehensive overview of the BrailleSense 6 and BrailleSense Polaris's word processor. You'll learn about opening, saving and managing multiple documents, using marks, and we will explore the menus to show you where you can find a host of useful features.

This session focuses on the BrailleSense 6 and BrailleSense Polaris's built-in email application. You'll learn about setting up accounts, some considerations to make, sending and receiving email and attachments, and configuring email options.

Regular listeners to our podcast will know that we love exploring new and innovative technology. We've been keeping an eye on developments in the world of multi-line refreshable Braille for a while now and are delighted to devote this episode to a new and emerging device called the TouchPad Pro. Stuart meets the TouchPad Pro's inventor Daniel Lubiner to learn more. The vision for the TouchPad Pro...

Welcome to the first of four sessions where we explore some of the core applications on the BrailleSense 6 and BrailleSense Polaris. In this session, Stuart introduces the file manager, which, as well as having the ability to copy and move files, can also be helpful when searching through files for strings of text and even zipping up multiple files into a handy archive.

We're always interested here at Sight and Sound Technology in keeping up with innovations in the orientation and mobility space and looking at some of the emerging technology that may impact on how we travel in the future. On this episode, Stuart is joined by Arjun Tambe, who is one of a group of researchers in Stanford University, who are working on the Augmented Cane. The Augmented cane uses sen...

Happy new year and welcome to the first episode in our 2022 podcast series. We're kicking off 2022 with a long overdue catch-up with our Chief Executive Officer Glenn Tookey, to reflect on the year that was 2021, get some updates on key operations within the business and talk about plans for 2022. Scott Young is sight and Sound Technology's National Account and Sales and Marketing Manager. Stuart...

On episode 49 of our podcast we're delighted to meet Cormac O'Toole. Cormac, who is a secondary school student in Ireland has just started producing some instructional videos to help people to learn how to use the BrailleSense 6. You'll find these videos shortly on our YouTube channel. Stuart sits down with Cormac to find out more about him, his love of gaming and the tech he uses.

This is the last session in the current series of our 'Getting to know your BrailleSense 6' training sessions, and Stuart is joined by Jenny Axler from Selvas Healthcare in South Korea, and Jackie Brown, a long-time user of Hims products, to take us on a journey through Android and some useful apps for the BrailleSense 6.