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Jonathan Simeone
Totally blind attorney and accessibility consultant, co-owner of Simeone Consultancy, LLC in Oregon and creator of the PresentAble app for JAWS users.
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Oct 26, 2026
How AI Helps Blind People Build PowerPoint, Plus Alexa+ and Apple News
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28:17Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
So I'm a lawyer by trade, which I guess in the UK you guys would call me a solicitor.
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28:24Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
But as a part of my jobs, all of the things that I've done have required me to do a lot of training people, whether it be training colleagues on how our employer could comply with the law or training the public on what their rights were under the law.
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28:45Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
As we all know, a lot of training people in the world today revolves around creating PowerPoint presentations.
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Learning Blind Tech Interview With Jonathan Simeone PresentAble Application
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14:13Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
When I started creating the app, I had no idea if it would even be successful.
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14:28Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
And as it started growing and I started to see its potential and what I could actually achieve working with Codex, my original thought honestly was, I'm going to probably just make this available free to people and let any screen reader use it.
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14:45Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
That was my original intent once I realized it could actually be something.
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14:51Jonathan SimeoneGUEST
Then, as you know, because we both tested it with NVDA, NVDA really didn't work well with the app.

Desiree RenaeHOST
And then, you know, I've got it, but you continually offer, you know, testing, refining, and even through Harchin Consultancy tech support for the app.