AccessWorld #38 -- St. Louis Shoes

You know, I really went and checked out a lot of the blindness-specific tech that I hadn't looked at in quite a while.

We've been really kind of focused on the mainstream side of things in Access World or things like metaglasses that have... accessible or blindness applications, but are more mainstream.

We do do some low vision stuff.

We didn't really touch like the braille side in a little while.

So I was getting caught up on things like the braille sense and the braille note, uh, the, I think the braille note evolve and then the braille sense seven.

Uh, so those were very cool to see, um, APH.

So things like the, uh, the Monarch and they've got a couple other products.

I'm not, I assume anything there is public.

I'm not sure.

I know there was some, some cool stuff.

Uh, think that'll be coming out soon on the education front i'm not sure if i can say after um yeah and then the uh one of the coolest things i thought that i saw that was very cutting edge is uh vispero had a whole room where you could just pop in any time for training or you could also get demos of what's coming up in jaws and fusion and that sort of thing that was one of the

cooler parts i thought of the conference how they've integrated that in that was really nice

It was cool to see people just bringing their laptop in there and, hey, I'm having this problem with JAWS, and they have people in there that could help you out.

Not just people, but

Ryan Jones was there.

Yeah, big time.

True geniuses in this space that are on hand and can answer questions as well as take comments.

It's good feedback from the consumers.

One of the things they showed me is there's been some AI features in JAWS for a while.

You've got the picture smart.

A cool one is that you can do, I think it's called page review or page overview, where when you're on a new website, you can ask JAWS, it might even just be a keystroke, like, what is this page like? And it tells you, like, it has navigation with these items in it.

The main content has this in it.

And like...

It gives you an overview of the page so you don't have to necessarily go line by line with your screen reader to make sure you don't miss anything.

So that was pretty cool.