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Aira

Tech that clicks: Allison Malloy

From early tech enthusiasm to leadership at OOD, Allison Malloy champions tools that provide access to visual information. She’s a Braille reader, a panelist on That Real Blind Tech Show and The Tech Doctor Podcast, and a fan of the Monarch braille display.

As an Aira Explorer since 2018, Allison pairs Visual Interpreters with Access AI to support work, travel, and daily life. Learn more about her story in this month's Community Profile!

aira.io/community-profile-alli

Aira | Access is a Human Right · Aira | Community Profile: Allison Malloy | OOD & Aira ExplorerMeet Allison Malloy, OOD’s Vision Services Program Manager and Aira Explorer, championing accessible tech, employment, and visual interpreting in Ohio.
#AssistiveTech#Braille#Accessibility
Double Tap

The UK’s nukes are still running on Windows 95 and floppy disks. Not a joke. In 2025, one of the most powerful nations on Earth is still relying on tech most people tossed decades ago.
It’s a wild reminder of how deeply outdated some critical systems really are—and why that should worry everyone.
Double Tap: Where blind people talk tech! dltap.com/46rVTpe
#BlindTech #DoubleTap #TechNews #Windows95 #FloppyDisks #Accessibility #OutdatedTech #DisabilityCommunity #AssistiveTech

Lanie Molinar Carmelo

Hoping those familiar with #LaTeX can give me some advice here. I've started using it to create my assignments for school. I'm not writing technical papers yet, but I find using LaTeX with #Zotero in #VSCode more #accessible with a #ScreenReader than most other setups I've tried.
Since my discussion posts have to follow #APA style, I’m using LaTeX for those as well as full papers. That part is going well—but I’m running into trouble when I need to actually post what I’ve written.
My school uses Brightspace, which allows discussion posts in either rich text or #HTML. I have #Pandoc installed, so I tried converting my LaTeX source to HTML and pasting the code. But Pandoc didn’t include my references section in the output.
I also tried copying from the PDF, but that stripped all formatting.
Does anyone know how I can get a clean HTML version of my work—with references included—that I can paste into Brightspace?
Here’s the command I’ve been using:
pandoc main.tex \
--bibliography=references. Bib \
--csl=apa.csl \
--standalone \
-o main.html
It creates the HTML file, but the references section is missing.
Any tips?
#Accessibility #AssistiveTech #Pandoc #APAstyle #Brightspace #EdTech #AcademicWriting #InclusiveTech #BlindTech #HigherEd #CitationTools #OpenSource #WritingWorkflow

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Jessica Tegner 👩🏻‍🦰

Be My Eyes and Innosearch Join Forces to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users

‍Be My Eyes announced today – on Global Accessibility Awareness Day – a strategic alliance with Innosearch.ai, an AI-powered eCommerce portal. The alliance will provide super-accessible online shopping to the users of the Be My Eyes app,, without the clutter and noise present of many other websites.

Be My Eyes users will benefit from an exclusive 2% cashback credit into their Innosearch account for use against future purchases made through the Be My Eyes app. The service is currently available in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia, with more regions to follow.

The alliance represents a significant step and new direction for Be My Eyes, as it lays the foundations of the Be My Eyes app and the underlying technology platform becoming the de-facto access-tech of choice for people who are blind or have low vision, wherever they are – at home, at work or at play.

bemyeyes.com/news/be-my-eyes-t
#globalaccessibilityawearnessday
#gaad #a11y #bemyeyes #innosearchai #innosearch #blind #shopping #disability #assistivetech

Be My Eyes · Be My Eyes to Provide In-App Accessible Shopping for Blind and Low Vision Users with InnoSearch AIBe My Eyes and Innosearch Team Up to Bring Seamless, AI-Powered eCommerce to Blind and Low Vision Users
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Manny Dexter

@iFixit

I was in primary school for the first #EarthDay. It was in our Weekly Reader.

In the IDEA #ProblemSolving method, celebrating Earth Day is the bridge between the Assessing and Identifying steps.

The four steps are:

1) Identify the problem

2) Develop a plan to address/solve the problem

3) Execute the plan

4) Assess the effectiveness/efficacy of the plan

Earth Day is our annual reminder to look at how we're doing on maintaining our planetary home. And to do better.

Especially, lets solve actual problems.

I was touring a local makerspace-based education facility, and the director talked about how pointless the one-day, solve-a-problem sessions are. Because the problems generally chosen, and the solutions to those problems are not anchored to reality.

The example he gave was turning water bottles into school desks. They didn't know how that process would actually work, they assumed this could be done, and wrote specifications for all the other parts of the project: acquiring the bottles, marketing the desks, etc.

I had not thought about things in that context before. I mean, I am keenly aware of #assistiveTech designed and built without any input from actual #disabled people. I didn't realize this was a general trend.

Ian Robinson

Is Guided Access on iPadOS stable? I know someone who wants to restrict an iPad for an autistic child to only run a single assistive tutorial app focused on speech learning.

Guided Access is designed for things like this. But is it stable or another example of a feature that gets added by Apple and then ignored as it bitrots?

support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/

Apple SupportLock iPad to one app with Guided AccessWith Guided Access, you can temporarily restrict iPad to one app when you let a child use your device or when you want to stay focused on a task.
#A11y#Autism#AssistiveTech
Debby ‬⁂📎🐧:disability_flag:

📚 Are you always on the lookout for new text-to-speech software? Jarod's Journey has you covered with "My Top 5 Open Source TTS off in 2024"! This video is packed with great options that enhance #a11y. Plus, having a synthesized version of your voice can be a lifesaver if you ever lose your voice! Don’t miss it: youtu.be/lPitjhhodaw or Invidious: invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch #TextToSpeech #OpenSource #Accessibility #AssistiveTech #TTS #OpenSourceSoftware

YouTubeMy Top 5 Open Source Text to Speech Softwares Starting off in 2024By Jarods Journey
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