Sight and Sound Technology Podcast

Welcome to Sight and Sound Technology's annual session, to explore all that is new in the latest release of JAWS, the world's most popular screen reader. Joining our team James Everson, Fionnuala Murphy and Stuart Lawler from Sight and Sound Technology, are Eric Damery, Jan Bloem and Mohammed Laachir from Vispero.

In this the penultimate session in our 'Getting to know your BrailleSense 6' training series, Stuart takes us through the new Wiki Search and how it can be used independently, and as part of other applications within the BrailleSense 6 user interface.

In session three of our 'Getting to know your BrailleSense 6' series, Stuart explores the world of language profiles. We learn what they are, how to set them up and how to find additional voices to download for your BrailleSense 6 device.

In this the second session in our BrailleSense 6 training series, Stuart explores the new podcast client coming in the soon-to-be-released software update and how to use it to listen to your favourite podcasts and find new content.

Welcome to the first in a series of five training sessions devoted to the BrailleSense 6. In this first session, Stuart is joined by Jenny Axler from Selvas Healthcare in Korea, who takes us through the main differences between the BrailleSense 6 and the BrailleSense U2.

Windows 11, Microsoft's new operating system, will be released on October 5th. We've had many questions to our support desk about Windows 11, what it is, what's changed and whether or not it is worth the upgrade, especially if you are using assistive technology that we support. In this episode Stuart is joined by Tristram Llewellyn from our tech support team, who has been spending time testing it...

STRAP's goal is to be the first total replacement of the white cane. The technology exists now and its inventors believe that we are living in the right moment for this innovation to come along and have a significant and positive impact on blind and visually impaired people the world over. On this edition of our podcast, Stuart sits down with Diego Roel, CEO and founder of STRAP Technologies, to l...

On this programme Stuart meets Gleb Zevkov, co-founder of Voxmate. Voxmate is a suite of accessible apps for Android devices that provide an intuitive, gesture-based, audio-first experience. When you launch Voxmate on your phone, you get access to a range of audio-first Voxmate apps. These apps allow you to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, and radio as well as to read news articles, place phone cal...

There's a lot to be covered in this last session in our 'Getting to know your new BrailleSense 6 series', so sit back, grab your device and let Stuart show you some more gems in this outstanding note taker. We'll explore the built-in dictionary, the ability to search for, download and read content from Bookshare, using the new Web Radio application and finally, a quick discussion about language pr...

The BrailleSense 6 runs Android version 10, which means it is ideal for running all sorts of mainstream apps. But how do you get them on the device? In this session, Stuart introduces us to the Play Store and shows us how to search for and install applications.

One really outstanding feature on the BrailleSense 6 and indeed the Polaris too is the integration of Google Drive into the native file manager application. In this session Stuart shows us how it works and how to set it up.

Welcome to the first in a series of four sessions, exploring some of the new and not so new features found on the BrailleSense 6, the world's most powerful note taker. In this session, Sight and Sound Technology's Stuart Lawler takes us through the email application.

Welcome to the fifth and final session in our 'Unpacking Tech that makes you feel at home' series. Today Stuart is joined by Ash Cross, Technical Support Team leader at Sight and Sound Technology, and Stuart Beveridge, Information Technology Trainer at Seescape in Scotland to answer questions in our tech surgery.

Welcome to session four in our 'Unpacking Tech that makes you feel at home' series. Today Stuart is joined by Ron Miller, Braille Product Specialist at Vispero to talk about the Focus line of Braille displays and the Pearl camera.

Welcome to the third installment in our 'Unpacking Tech that makes you feel at home' series of webinars. Today Stuart is joined by Matt Ater, Vice President of Software and Corporate Business at Vispero, to take us through the latest updates an enhancements in the JAWS screen reader.

On this, our second session in the 'Unpacking Tech that makes you feel at home' series, Stuart is joined by Vispero's Vice President of Software Product Management Eric Damery, to take us through the latest changes and enhancements in Zoomtext and Zoomtext Fusion software.

In this the first of a week-long series of webinars, Stuart is joined by Sight and Sound Technology's Technical Support and Services Manager Ruth Gallagher-Carr to unveil this year's specials and outline the programme for the week ahead.

On this very special podcast episode, Stuart is joined by Jenny Axler from Selvas Healthcare in Korea, who is introducing us to Kihun Jang, lead developer at Selvas, for the BrailleSense line of products.

Welcome to another episode of our Desert Island Tech podcast series. Today Stuart sits down with Mike Brace CBE, DL.  Mike is a former Paralympic skier, social worker and leader of disabled charities. He was Chief Executive of Vision 2020 UK and served as Chairman of the British Paralympic Association. He was awarded an OBE in 2005 and a CBE in 2009 for Services to Disabled Sport and was appointed...

If you’ve been watching our social media lately you’ll know that we have a hugely attractive trade-in offer at present on the new BrailleSense 6, which is just releasing over the next few weeks.   If you are in two minds as to whether to take the plunge, you might find this episode helpful. Stuart is joined by Jenny Axler from Selvas in South Korea, and Earle Harrison, from Hims Incorporated, in t...

Welcome back to another episode of the Sight and Sound Technology podcast. Today we're catching up with an old friend, as Stuart sits down with Neil Barnfather, Vice President, Europe for Goodmaps. GoodMaps was born out of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). Founded in 2019 and based out of Louisville, GoodMaps (previously named Access Explorer) was created by APH with a simple missio...

On this episode we're delighted to meet Henry Green, Co-founder and President of Ocutech. Founded in 1984, Ocutech is the worldwide leader in designing state-of-the-art bioptic telescopes specifically for the visually impaired. Proven effective in NIH-funded studies, and available in over 40 countries, they have become the gold standard in high-quality bioptic telescope systems.

On this episode we bring you a double dose of goodness! Mark Belcher is manager of the Knowledge Village, an initiative of Henshaws Society for the Blind in Manchester. We’ve recently started an exciting collaboration with Henshaws and Stuart catches up with Mark to find out all about what he and his team do. Our good friend Stuart Beveridge is rather smitten with the Envision glasses, so much so...

Eyedaptic offers glasses to enhance vision for those who suffer from age-related macular degeneration and other low vision diseases. Stuart meets Jay Cormier, Eyedaptic's CEO to find out more.

We're thrilled as part of this Webinar Wednesday special to unveil the latest and greatest note taker from our friends in Selvas. The BrailleSense 6 is the device that we've been waiting for and it's about to be released. With an Octa-Core CPU processor to meet the demands of powerful apps, 128 GB of storage, 6 GB of memory and a host of connectivity options the BrailleSense 6 is the ideal compani...