Hijacked 3.0: Sally & Robin

07/02/22 • 81 min

In what is becoming a regular fixture at the weekend, Blind Girl Sally Clay sits down with our very own Robin Christopherson to talk about his life and his experience of blindness. In a wide ranging and frank interview, Robin opens up about his life and family who also live with blindness. He talks about his career and life living in far flung places around the world. It’s a wonderful chat to enjoy and gave Steven and Shaun a much needed rest, even though they’ll likely spend their day listening to this conversation anyway!

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Humanware and Odd Emails

It’s another big show with lots of interesting contributions from our wonderful audience. Blind Guy Steven Scott and that other Blind Guy Shaun Preece get together to find out the history of barber poles, which accent is best in Edinburgh, and weird phone calls about the ‘blind lady’. Plus there’s an interesting conversation with the guys from Humanware regarding their newest products such as the Evolve 12. We also ask about the future of the Victor Reader Stream and we learn about their new Buddy app to help learn their tech. If you have something to say about what you hear, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Email [email protected] or call 0204 571 3354 and leave us a voicemail.

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JAWS on ARM Beta

It's a big week for tech announcements thanks to the conventions going on in the USA run by the American Council of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind. So far we have heard announcements from Orbit Research telling us a new Slate family will be launching soon of multi-line braille displays. Also a new product is due to be launched from Humanware called the Stellar Trek, a brand new device that we will talk about later in the podcast feed in more depth. But today's main topic and focus is the big news from Vespero, the company behind the JAWS screen reader. Over the weekend they dropped the first ever ARM version of the software for newer laptops coming soon with ARM processors as opposed to Intel processors, similar to the way Apple has moved into M1 as its main processor on board its tech moving away from Intel. But what does JAWS feel like on such an architecture and how does it perform? Listener Aaron from Cumbria got in touch to share his views after testing it out. Keep in touch with your comments and questions by emailing [email protected] or call and leave us a voicemail on 0204 571 3354.