The International Association of Accessibility Professionals, in association with Vially, brought their EU conference to Dublin last week. David caught up with some of the speakers from the event to learn more.

Vision Ireland’s group CEO, Chris White, calls for stronger leadership and enforcement of the European Accessibility Act, and explains why Vision Ireland made a complaint to the Irish Aviation Authority.

Susanna Laurin from the IAAP tells us about the organisation and its role, and gives her view on how the European Accessibility Act is working so far.

Shadi Abou-Zahra, from Amazon, tells us what it’s like leading accessibility for one of the world’s largest companies. How do you ensure accessibility across a company with such a wide variety of products? Shadi tells us more.

We discuss Narrator, paper travel passes, and rodents in this week’s Tech News. And we tell you about a new course now available on Vision Academy.

All that and more on this week’s episode of Talking Technology.

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0:00 intro

3:01 WhatsApp Voice Notes

12:41 Chris White

21:40 Susanna Laurin

32:19 Shadi Abou-Zahra

42:43 Talking Technology News

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On this episode of Talking Technology, we’re discussing all things Braille.

Peter Claridge-Bowler tells us about the Brailliant BI 20 and BI 40 X Braille displays from Humanware. Are they any good?

Lina Kouzi from the Vision Ireland library and INBAF tells us about the new unified Irish Braille code, and what it means for those who have been using the Irish language Braille code previously.

And we catch up with Mairead O’Mahony to learn about the Vision Ireland Braille team and some of the services they provide.

It’s all buses and advertising in this week’s tech news, and we of course discuss the weather. It wouldn’t be an Irish podcast if we didn’t, now would it?

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0:00 intro (and a discussion on the weather)

2:48 Voice Notes

15:59 The V I Labs Braille team

18 53 Brailliant BI 20 and BI 40 x Braille displays

34:07 Unified Irish Braille

47:33 Talking Technology News

59:45 Outro

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On this packed episode of Talking Technology, we catch up with Rhonda Bassett-Spiers, the CEO of Jaws maker Vispero. We discuss what’s new in Jaws and Zoomtext, and we hear details of an entirely new product currently in development.

We discuss Vispero accounts and changes to how Jaws and Zoomtext licences work, and could Vispero partner with or purchase Be My Eyes? We discuss all that and more.

Dereck Carolan joins us to share some of the services offered by V I Labs at Vision Ireland, also teasing some of the courses on the way this January.

We have coverage of the consumer electronics show in tech news, as well as discussion of major accessibility issues at Leinster House.

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0:00 Intro

3:14 Voice notes

22:18 An interview with the CEO of Vispero

49:38 What is V I Labs?

1:02:52 Talking Technology News

1:18:29 Outro

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