At Banter Podcast

It’s a full house this week as Rick and Nicole Chant, the father/ daughter team at Chaos Technical Services, visits the Guitar Dungeon to help the boys discuss a few news stories from the past few weeks. They talk about the latest Canadian scandal before launching into discussing what Google is doing to expand the usability of their Home devices, more Accessibility lawsuits and a very worthwhile awareness day. Show Notes Don Cherry Fired https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/don-cherry-fired People with Down syndrome have trouble using smart speakers. Here's how Google's trying to help https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/down-syndrome-speech-recognition-google-1.5347429 Blind Employee Sues Beacon Health https://www.nfb.org/about-us/press-room/blind-employee-sues-beacon-health-options Purple Tuesday https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/purple-tuesday-travel-retailers-urged-to-unlock-disabled-spending-power/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assis

The boys have recovered from the Halloween show and transubstantiated back into their normal selves just in time to welcome Javier Pita, CEO of NaviLens, into the Guitar Dungeon all the way from sunny Spain! We discuss this innovate new variation of QR codes and its many applications, including as a navigation system for the visually impaired. Show Notes NaviLens https://www.navilens.com/ NaviLens Demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq3VI0vUtO0 Legally Blind Man Files Human Rights Complaint https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/legally-blind-man-files-human-rights-complaint-1.5343362 AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batte

It’s Halloween once again in the Guitar Dungeon, and the boys have gathered along with special guest Rick Chant from Chaos Technical Services to have a frightfully live show where literally ANYTHING could happen …. Show Notes “Are Guide Dogs Unethical?” from Good Morning Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqht8JyI9Vg AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

This week we’re excited to welcome Matthew Shifrin, creator of the website Lego for the Blind, into the Guitar Dungeon where he explains the origin of his step by step instructions for multiple LEGO sets as well as how it came out that LEGO followed suit and began to develop their own pilot project for Braille and audio instructions. Show Notes Microsoft AI for Accessibility https://news.microsoft.com/en-ca/2019/10/17/ideas-from-the-heart-could-help-make-employment-more-attainable-for-people-with-disabilities/ LEGO for the Blind http://legofortheblind.com/ LEGO Audio and Braille Instructions https://legoaudioinstructions.com/ How LEGO Helps Blind People See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVy5E2DZkKM AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services o

This week we travel all the way to Hawaii (yeah, we wish) and talk to Dr. Brett Oppegaard about The UniD Project, whose mandate is to create more vivid and robust audio descriptions for the visually impaired. We discuss the project's origins, its mandates and its first phase which is providing audio description at National Parks. Show Notes Uber Introduces Pet Uber https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20905237/uber-pet-app-update-dog-cat-fee-price-cities-available The UniD Project https://www.unidescription.org/

It’s a Dog Day Afternoon in the Guitar Dungeon as we break some big news concerning the Domino’s Pizza Accessibility lawsuit before welcoming in Tara Dougherty from the Pacific Assistance Dogs Society for a discussion about (almost) everyone’s favorite topic -- puppies! Show Notes Supreme Court Denies Domino’s https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/464897-disability-activists-notch-win-as-supreme-court-declines-to-take-up Pacific Assistance Dogs Society https://pads.ca/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

World Cerebral Palsy is almost upon us on October 6, so we take some time this week to talk with Elizabeth Specht and Jeanne Morton from the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC, who discuss the condition itself as well as the Association and the work it does for individuals all over the Province. Show Notes Domino’s Wants to Slice Away at ADA https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/supreme-court-dominos-web-accessibility-visually-impaired.html Alexa’s Show and Tell Features ID Objects https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/23/amazon-alexa-accessibility-show-and-tell/ Cerebral Palsy Association of BC https://www.bccerebralpalsy.com/ Contact CPABC info@bccerebralpalsy.com AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any pi

It’s a big show this week as Rob, Steve, and Ryan discuss a range of big topics, including climate change, ape uprisings and even find some time to manage to touch on the accessibility features of iOS 13 before welcoming on Jenine Stanley, Explorer Community Manager at Aira to discuss what’s new with the innovative service for people with Blindness or Low Vision. Show Notes Aira https://aira.io/ What’s New in Accessibility with iOS 13 https://appletoolbox.com/wheres-accessibility-settings-in-ios-13-and-ipados-we-found-it-and-more/#What8217s_new_in_Accessibility_with_iOS_13 AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online

The Dungeon is alive … with the sound of music! That’s right, this week we dive back into a Music Therapy discussion with yet another returning guest, Dr. Benjamin Schogler, from Skoog! We discuss how this innovative Music Therapy tool was developed as well its mainstream applications, what’s new with the next generation of Skoogs, and how it can be used in therapeutic settings. Show Notes Skoog Website https://skoogmusic.com/ Audible Says Captions Are Fair Use https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/amazon-fires-back-at-book-publishers-says-captions-are-fair-use/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at 

The Guitar Dungeon is awash with excitement this week as Ryan, Rob, Steve, and special in-studio guest Grant welcome back Alexis Hillyard, creator of the YouTube cooking channel Stump Kitchen to the show. We discuss her advocacy work as well as how the Stump Kitchen channel has evolved before launching into an extended discussion on how advocacy and content creation can work together. You don’t want to miss this one! Show Notes Stump Kitchen YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDa7IzZX_Lb882M4qZc6nzg Stump Kitchen Online https://www.stumpkitchen.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.

Steve makes his somewhat triumphant return to the show for the first show of the Fall season where we discuss a new Audible accessibility feature that is under fire from publishers before we welcome David Errington, President and CEO of Accessible Media Inc into the Guitar Dungeon. Show Notes Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830057/amazon-audible-speech-to-text-feature-lawsuit-major-book-publishers Accessible Media Inc https://www.ami.ca AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

It’s the last show of the summer and we celebrate by welcoming in Derek Featherstone, Chief Experience Officer at Level Access and Accessibility Rock Star, into the Guitar Dungeon for an extended discussion of Digital Accessibility. We discuss everything from how the industry has changed to the new Accessible Canada Act and what needs to happen to drive Accessibility forward. Show Notes Watch Derek’s Accessibility Presentation, “Where Accessibility Lives” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecE-oRh6-b8 Level Access www.levelaccess.com AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or ca

This week Rob and Ryan welcome Paul Ruvolo, creator of the indoor navigation app Clew, to the Guitar Dungeon. He walks us through how this innovative app uses Augmented Reality to provide a virtual breadcrumb trail and some of the challenges that were faced in development. Show Notes Aira Goes Free https://aira.io/aira-is-free Get Clew on the App Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clew/id1268077870 Clew Website http://www.clewapp.org/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

We’re back from vacation (again) and go full steam ahead on discussing a few recent news stories surround accessibility. From Lyft horror stories to self-service kiosks, Rob and Ryan cover a wide range of topics before welcoming back Karthik Kannan from Envision AI to announce some big promotional news.   Show Notes Wheelchair users say even accessible taxis will refuse rides in Vancouver https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wheelchair-accessible-taxis-vancouver-1.5234791 San Francisco woman with disability who says Lyft drivers repeatedly cancel her rides is calling for change https://abc7news.com/society/sf-woman-with-disability-says-lyft-drivers-repeatedly-cancel-her-rides/5460706/ This blind woman says self-checkouts lower the bar(code) for accessibility https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/self-checkouts-accessibility-concerns-1.5243720 A blind man couldn’t order pizza from Domino’s. The company wants the Supreme Court to say websites don’t have to be accessible https://www.cn

This week we delve back into the always-hot topic of Accessible spaces as Rob and Ryan talk with Jessica Hipp, Chief Operating Officer of WayAround, an innovative Audio Tagging system that could help revolutionize public, home, and office settings. Show Notes WayAround https://www.wayaround.com/ Contact Jessica connect@wayaround.com New law requires pharmacies to provide “prescription readers” to blind patients https://www.klcc.org/post/new-law-requires-pharmacies-provide-prescription-readers-blind-patients AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

This week Rob and Ryan welcome Amy Silverman, author of “My Heart Can’t Even Believe It” into the Guitar Dungeon this week where the three discuss a variety of topics including the language of disability, advocacy, and raising a daughter with Down’s Syndrome. Show Notes My Heart Can't Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome https://www.amazon.ca/My-Heart-Cant-Even-Believe/dp/1606132741 Amy Silverman Online https://www.amy-silverman.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

Every shop at Old Navy and wish you could purchase a t-shirt that could regulate temperature or monitor your vital signs? Well, you may be in luck soon. This week we talk with Jess Jur, Associate Professor of Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science at NC State University's College of Textiles who gives us an overview of the notion of Smart Textiles and helps us breakdown what the implications are for Assistive Technology. Show Notes Comcast’s latest accessibility feature lets customers change TV channels with their eyes https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18681792/comcast-eye-control-accessibility-feature-change-tv-channels Bad braille plagues buildings across U.S., CBS News Radio investigation finds https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bad-braille-plagues-buildings-across-u-s-cbs-news-radio-investigation-finds/ NEXT Research Group https://sites.textiles.ncsu.edu/next/ Smart Clothes TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oUHW9eqNaA AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sa

The show returns from a week long break as Rob and Ryan welcome friend of the show Colleen Connor back into the Guitar Dungeon, where they discuss everything you want to know (and likely a few things you don’t) about the current state of Audio Described content and where they see things (hopefully) going in the future. Show Notes BlindInspirationCast http://www.blindinspirationcast.com/ Audio Description Retreats http://www.adtrainingretreats.com/ VocalEye http://www.vocaleye.ca/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

Ready to do some button mashing?? We take a deep dive into the history and future of Accessible Gaming with this week’s guest, Mike Feir, who is a regular contributor on AMI as well as author of several books. Mike’s experience with Accessible Gaming goes all the way back to the 90s, and he discusses what it was like back then and where he sees gaming going these days. Show Notes Audio Games http://www.audiogames.net AppleVis https://www.applevis.com/ Mike’s Blog http://michaelfeir.blogspot.com/ Blind Bargains https://www.blindbargains.com/ Kelly & Company https://www.ami.ca/category/kelly-and-company AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts

This week it’s all about Apple as we welcome Tyler Stephen from AppleVis into the Guitar Dungeon to give us a rundown of the major Accessibility announcements that were made at Apple’s annual Developer’s Conference.   Show Notes Ali Stroker Makes History as First Wheelchair User to Win a Tony https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/theater/ali-stroker-oklahoma-tony-awards.html WWDC 2019 as it happened: everything announced during Apple's keynote https://www.techradar.com/news/wwdc-2019-liveblog AppleVis https://www.applevis.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-84