EBU Access Cast
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -This is Ebu Access Cast, official podcast from (EBU) about assistive technology
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Ebu Access Cast 35
December 11, 2021 19:08 - 1 hour - 101 MBWellcome to the last transcribed edition of the Ebu Access Cast for 2021. Stay tuned till the end because we prepared many nice things for you and if you stay listening, you will hear surprising announcement at the end. However if you are really curious skip out to the end of the shownotes to find out what did we say. Mario bought him self a nice and cheap pair of Sennheiser HD 206 studio headset. On the current list of the best budget studio headsets for 2021, this one sits on the first p...
Ebu Access Cast 35 transcript
December 11, 2021 18:50Transcription of the EBU Access Cast episode 35 [Jingle] This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from the European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. (Mario) Welcome to the last episode of the EBU Access Cast for 2021. My name is MarioPerčinić , as you all know, and I'm coming to you from Luxembourg. But no worr...
EBU Access Cast 34
November 11, 2021 22:05 - 1 hour - 161 MBWelcome back in the 34th episode of the EBU Access Cast where, as always, we provide you with the news around assistive technology and accessibility. This episode, hosted by Paweł and co-hosted by Tanja, Mario and Hlynur contains big amounts of news from the Big companies out there, impressions of technology we have ourselves tested and a nice demo at the end so tune in and enjoy! You can always review the transcript of the podcast if that form suits you better. For any lovers of movies ...
EBU Access Cast 34 Transcript
November 11, 2021 20:17Transcription of the EBU Access Cast episode 34 [Jingle] This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from the European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. [Paweł] Welcome, everyone, this is the 34th episode of the EBU Access Cast, the podcast of the European Blind Union on the latest and greatest in assistive tec...
EBU Access Cast 33
October 05, 2021 15:04 - 2 hours - 188 MBWelcome back to the 33rd episode of the EBU Access Cast Here we provide transcription of the 33rd episode of the EBU Access Cast. In this episode Hlynur, Mario, Tanja and Pawel cover a wide range of topics regarding accessibility, from Pawel’s birthday present to himself to a new software suite that turns up Mario’s cravings for cheesecake to the maximum… and everything in between. We cover the ongoing European Commission survey on digital accessibility, where the objective is to seek...
EBU Access Cast 33 transcript
October 05, 2021 14:28Transcription of EBU Access Cast – episode 33 (Jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from the European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. (Hlynur) Hey, there, everyone, and welcome to the EBU Access Cast episode 33. My name is Hlynur Þór, calling you from Iceland. And I'm not here...
EBU Access Cast 32
August 20, 2021 06:55 - 1 hour - 112 MBWelcome back to EBU Access Cast - podcast about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. This is transcribed episode 32. Some of us got the EU Covid certificate and we shared our experiences of showing the digital version on the mobile phone as blind persons. We found out that not all PDF viewers on mobile phones open the QR code maximised and therefore this creates difficulties to blind persons to show properly the certificate on the Covid-19 travel checkpoints. Feel f...
EBU Access Cast 32 transcript
August 19, 2021 19:23Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 32 (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. Introduction (Tanja) Hello, everyone, welcome to Episode 32 of the EBU Access Cast. This is our last episode before summer break. And I hope you're doing gr...
Ebu Access Cast 31
June 15, 2021 18:28 - 1 hour - 135 MBIt is almost summer, but we are not giving up, in fact we came to the Episode 31 of the Ebu Access Cast, and boy we found many different topics to discuss. However if you think that you herd anything, no no you didn't because we have a Special interview for you about Navilense which you can hear towards the end of the Episode. But at the beginning Pawel said that he found a nice iOS app called Replica which allows iOS user to make audio and Video stream thru their Browser, and Mario told ...
EbuAccessCast31 Transcript
June 15, 2021 18:09Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 31 (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. Introduction (Mario) Welcome to the 31st first EBU Access Cast. My name is Mario Perčinić and I'm coming to you from Luxembourg and this time we have the wh...
Ebu Access Cast 30
May 05, 2021 00:16 - 1 hour - 124 MBWelcome back to the 30th episode of the Ebu Access Cast, the big THREE ZERO! In this episode, Hlynur makes his debut as a lead host, joined by the always charming Tanja, Mario and Pawel. We covered a lot of current issues... everything from binaural recordings of a volcano in Iceland to an audio version of an IKEA catalogue. Pawel told us about his new gadget, the Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset and we even get to hear some recordings he created for us and let us take a peak into his dai...
Ebu Access Cast 30 Transcript
May 04, 2021 23:26Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 30 (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from the European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. Introduction (Hlynur) Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 30th episode of the EBU Access Cast. You know what that means, hit the big three z...
Ebu Access Cast 29
March 15, 2021 18:40 - 1 hour - 98 MBWelcome back to the 29th episode of the Ebu Access Cast, one away from thirty. In this episode, hosted by Pawel and co-hosted by Tanja, Mario and Hlynur, we find the time to look into the future indeed, but for most of the time we stay focused on what matters for now, of course. In absence of new gadgets from either of the Podcast crew, Mario shares with us the Story of how the name Bluetooth came to signify the popular data transmission protocol and it turns out to be a valuable lesson ...
Ebu Access Cast 29 Transcript
March 15, 2021 17:22Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 29 (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. Introduction (Pawel) Welcome again back to the latest episode of EBU Access Cast, this is the episode 29, already close to 30. That's quite an i...
Ebu Access Cast 28
February 01, 2021 18:23 - 2 hours - 180 MBWelcome back to EBU Access Cast - podcast about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. This is episode 28 transcript. We wish you all the best for a happy and healthy 2021! In this post-Christmas episode, we review some of the new personal gadgets. Tanja presents us her new Microphone Yeti Nano from Blue which is an USB condenser microphone - perfect for recording podcasts and for live streaming. Mario talks about his new open-ear wireless bone conduct...
Ebu Access Cast 28 Transcript
February 01, 2021 17:32Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 28 (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here is our host. Introduction (Tanja) Welcome to EBU Access Cast, the official technology podcast from the European Blind Union. This is Episode 28. We wish you Happy New Ye...
EBUAccessCast 27
December 13, 2020 19:47 - 1 hour - 134 MBWellcome to the transcribed 27th EbuAccessCast! This episode is the last for 2020, so we prepared nice Goodies for you this time, and we got some new faces in the show as well. NEW Android Talkback Update (2020): Multi Finger Gestures Google officially came out with Android 11 about 2 months ago but if you look at the official help pages from Google Accessibility Suite, you will not find anything about new multi fingered gestures, which we think is total shame for Google since this ...
EbuAccessCast 27 transcript
December 13, 2020 19:29Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 27 Introduction (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The first official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here are the hosts. (Mario) Welcome, welcome to the 27th episode of the EBU Access Cast. My name is Mario Perčinić, I'm coming to you from Luxembourg and I...
EbuAccessCast 26
October 26, 2020 18:41 - 1 hour - 103 MBWelcome back to this month's edition of the EBU Access Cast, as always packed with the latest assistive technology news and gadget discussion. Our content in written form is in our transcript. We started this one off with Mario telling us all about his brand-new phone, the Samsung Xcover Pro, the latest in the famous line of rugged, durable smartphones made by Samsung. This experience gives us a chance to discuss what to watch out for when choosing the right Android smartphone, includ...
EbuAccessCast26 Transcript
October 26, 2020 17:07Transcript of EBU Access Cast - episode 26 Introduction (jingle) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The first official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here are the hosts. (Pawel) Welcome back to another edition of the EBU Access Cast, this is the episode for October 2020, and here we are with another port...
Ebu Access Cast 25
September 27, 2020 22:37 - 1 hour - 165 MBWelcome back to 25 transcribed episode of EBU Access Cast - podcast about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people! We started this episode with a short presentation of the EBU 2020 award best practices in web accessibility The EBU jury attributed the first prize to EBU Czech Blind United (SONS) for its contribution in encouraging public and private sector organisations to improve their web accessibility. The European Commission and the European Disability Forum orga...
Ebu Access Cast 25 Transcript
September 27, 2020 21:40Introduction (Intro jingle) (Voice over) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The first official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here are the hosts. (Tanja) Hello and welcome to the EBU Access Cast. This is episode 25. My name is Tanja Kleut. I hope you...
EbuAccessCast 24
July 29, 2020 08:58 - 1 hour - 136 MBWellcome to the 24th episode of the Ebu Access Cast. If you are following u our Twitter account you probably noticed that last month was unusually busy for us, because we were looking for new contributors for our podcast. After a set of interviews and selection of the Vacancies which we received from you, we are slowly starting to introduce new members of our expanded team. This time for you Xavier Ciscar and David Ciscar from Barcelona join us for almost 2 hours of very cool debate and exc...
EbuAccessCast24 transcript
July 29, 2020 08:24Introduction (Intro jingle) (Voice over) This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The first official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here are the hosts. (Mario) Welcome to the 24th episode of the EBU Access Cast. This is the last episode before our summer break. My name is Mario Perčinić. I'm coming from Luxembou...
Ebu Access Cast 23
June 24, 2020 09:04 - 1 hour - 103 MBWelcome back to EBU Access Cast - podcast about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people! We are happy to say that from now on you are able to listen our podcast with the transcript which will bring better inclusion to all the listeners with different dissabilities, so if you want to read what we said, head over to it! Lockdown measures are being eased further after 3 months of restrictions and most of us have been teleworking in that period. Owning a decent headset wi...
Ebu Access Cast 23 transcript
June 24, 2020 08:09[VoiceOver] This programme is financially supported by the fundings from the European Commission. You are listening to the EBU Access Cast. The first official podcast from European Blind Union about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people. And here are the hosts. [Tanja] Hello and welcome to the EBU Access Cast. This is episode 23. My name is Tanja Kleut and I will be the host of this podcast. We have the full crew and I have with me Mario from Luxembourg. ...
Ebu Access Cast 22
May 20, 2020 19:25 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBWelcome back to the May edition of the EBU Access Cast, full of interesting news from the Assistive Technology and Digital Accessibility industries. We kicked off this one by holding a small exchange of Android apps between Mario and Paweł including email clients and useful Wear OS apps. WE then discussed all that is new and accessible in the latest release of Chrome marked with the version number 81. Apart from browsers, both of the popular Windows screen readers, NVD...
Ebu Access Cast 21
April 27, 2020 10:29 - 1 hour - 128 MBWelcome to this month's edition of the EBU Access Cast. As always, we are bringing you some pretty exciting news in the area of assistive technology. The current situation caused by the spread of the novel Coronavirus has impacted our lives in multiple ways, especially so in the case of people with visual impairments. It is therefore difficult to escape this subject completely. The news, however, will definitely be useful in coping with the new reality of self-isolation, social dis...
Ebu Access Cast 20
March 20, 2020 14:40 - 1 hour - 100 MBWellcome to the 20th episode of Ebu Access Cast. We have come to the 20th episode so far, and we would like to thank you for listening to us. We are preparing some nice goodies for you for the future episodes, but new surprise will be coming to you soon. In the mean time, let's check what's going on in this dark times which hovers around the world. As the Corona pandemics is taking over the Europe and rest of the world, lots of jobs are transfered to teleworking. We made a research to ...
Ebu Access Cast 19
February 21, 2020 10:37 - 1 hour - 102 MBWelcome to the 19th episode of the EBU Access Cast. This is the second episode that you can listen our podcast in chapters in your favourite podcast player. Find out with us which podcast players support EBU Access Cast chapters. Mario shared with us his experience about Focus 40 Blue 5th Gen refreshable braille display from Freedom Scientific. The device is light, small, sturdy and it can have 5 simultaneous bluetooth connections and one USB Type-C. It works both as braille display an...
Ebu Access Cast 18
January 27, 2020 12:07 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBWelcome to the 18th EBU Access Cast! Since this is the first podcast for 2020, we wish you all the best in 2020 from the whole team, and we hope that you will get some nice new gadgets which will expand and improve your daily Living. We also made some improvements in our podcast since 2020, and that means from now on our podcast supports chapters Section, which means that if you want to listen something that specifically interests you, you can directly skip to your favorite chapter in yo...
Ebu Access Cast 17
December 22, 2019 17:46 - 1 hour - 144 MBWe are back with the latest episode of the EBU Access Cast and as it happens the last one for the year 2019 and the teens of this century. As Christmas is drawing closer, we began this episode with some tech gadget Christmas gifts discussion. Mario bought a Fossil 5 Gen Wear OS smartwatch and shared his experience of setting it up for the first time. His brief demo of this device's possibilities can be found in the demo Time section of this show. We kicked off the news section by ment...
Ebu Access Cast 16, EBU General Assembly and tech fair interviews
November 20, 2019 13:07 - 1 hour - 126 MBThe European Blind Union held its 11th general assembly in Rome on October 27-30. Bart was invited to record a special edition of the podcast. He spoke with the outgoing and incoming president of EBU, Wolfgang Angermann, and Rodolfo Cattani, as well as with its executive director Mokrane Boussaïd who is about to retire. He also interviewed the exhibitors in the tech fair. Companies that we interviewed at Sightcity were not revisited. It Cares developed an app for the purpose of this e...
Ebu Access Cast 15
October 21, 2019 06:38 - 1 hour - 132 MBWelcome to the 15th episode of the EBU Access Cast. This month we commented the iOS 13 accessibility improvements and new bugs that came with the new iOS. We are disappointed that the official release brought so many accessibility issues and we hope that Apple will fix them soon. Microsoft announced Surface Neo and Surface Duo at the Microsoft Surface event. What came as a surprise is that the smaller foldable Surface Duo runs Android, and, the larger device Surface Neo will run a variant ...
Ebu Access Cast 14
September 23, 2019 12:58 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBWelcome to the 14th EBU AccessCast! (September 2019) After our summer holidays Mario, Tanja, Bart and Pawel are back with you and as always, we have quite a lot to say for this month. Bart got himself a new pair of Bose frames which represent the alternative to the well-known aftershockz boan conduction headset, and he shared his Short Review on them. Mario also bought a new tuner for string instruments, called Roadie Bass. The tuner is very accessible for partially sighted community a...
Ebu Access Cast 13
July 23, 2019 07:03 - 1 hour - 69 MBWelcome to the 13th episode of the EBU Access Cast, this time hosted by Paweł who is joined by Tanja, Mario and Bart to discuss all that happened in July in assistive technologies. Paweł got himself a new iPod Touch 7th gen and is yet again ready to explore the accessibility of the Apple ecosystem and iOS apps alongside his usual Android phone. Meanwhile Tanja had the chance to speak in front of a large publicity of web developers conference Voxxed Days which took place in Luxembourg. Her ...
Ebu Access Cast 12
June 20, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBWelcome to the 12 episode of the EBU Access Cast. We decided to refresh the way how our podcast is presented, so from now on every month you will hear somebody different from our team who will be the main host for the episode. In the June episode Tanja took the position of the captain and she is joined by Mario, Bart and Pawel who became our newest team member. This time we are bringing you the accessibility news from the Apple conference WWDC 2019. In its opening Apple announced that techno...
Ebu Access Cast 11, Sight City special
May 22, 2019 15:42 - 1 hour - 111 MBWellcome to the 11th EBU Access Cast. This time we have a special episode on Sight City 2019 and we talk about all interesting tech goodies we saw at the conference. At the beginning of the episode you can listen to the interviews which Mario and Tanja prepared, and than after Mario, Tanja, Bart and our special guest Paweł Masarczyk who is very known podcaster from Poland in the Tyflopodcast discuss all about the things they saw at the Sight City. The first interview comes from Vispero g...
EBU Access Cast 10
May 02, 2019 12:24 - 1 hour - 139 MBWelcome to the 10th EBU Access Cast. We are extremely happy that our podcast reached the 10th Episode so far, and we hope that we will keep you interested in the future as well. For you this time Mario, Jakob and Tanja prepared lots of goodies and Bart was very busy with preparing 3 nice interviews which you can listen in the second half of this Episode. But before the interviews, let's check what's new in the news Section. New option called accessibility events appeared under accessibilit...
Ebu Access Cast 09
March 26, 2019 21:08 - 1 hour - 194 MBWellcome to the Ebu Access Cast 09. As you will see March was very busy month for many updates in the assistive tech industry, as well as in the European Union which are very important for visually impaired community. Jakob, Mario and Tanja this time prepared many news, demos and the first guest interview for our podcast, so let's jump straight into the action and check what do we have in store for you this time. At the beginning all of us shared the news about our new gadgets, which we wi...
Ebu Access Cast 08
February 21, 2019 14:12 - 1 hour - 143 MBWellcome to the 8th episode of the Ebu Access Cast. This time Mario, Jakob, Bart and Tanja prepared lots of goodies for you from the news section, and we achieved our own personal record in amount of demos prepared for our podcast. We would like to say a huge thank you to Mr. Daniel Montalvo who send to us 2 demos about amazon Echo which we are publishing in this episode, and you can hear also the demo about Google Interpreter at the end of this podcast. But first, let's see what do we have ...
Ebu Access Cast 07
January 23, 2019 12:12 - 44 minutes - 101 MBWellcome to the 7th Ebu Access Cast, the first episode for 2019. We decided to make some changes and refresh our team with new people. Therefor from now on we have new person who will bring a girl power into our team. We wish warm wellcome to Tanja Kleut who is an accessibility specialist at the European parliament, and who joined Mario and Jakob in this episode. At the beginning we gave a small round up on the gadgets which each of us got for the holidays. Jakob got him self a paire of the...
Ebu Access Cast 06
December 19, 2018 08:57 - 49 minutes - 113 MBWellcome to the 6th episode of the Ebu Access Cast. As this is our last episode before we go on the short vacation, we would like to wish you all the best for the upcoming holidays, and that Mr Santa brings to you a bunch of the assistive tech devices and gadgets under the Christmas tree. IN the news section this time we got the following for you: Instagram is Becoming More Accessible for the Visually Impaired With Two New Features The following is a follow up article about c...
Ebu Access Cast 05
November 20, 2018 10:09 - 52 minutes - 119 MBWelcome to the newest and fifth episode of the Ebu Access Cast. After one month period of silence during October due to a few technical problems and the Jakobs trip to Amazonian forests, we are back to bring you the newest content from around the globe from the assistive industry, and boy boy, we have a lot of interesting things to say this time. If you stay with us until the end of the news announcements, you will be able to hear our surprise demonstration about the new product, which is hi...
Ebu Access Cast 04
September 20, 2018 09:23 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBWelcome to our newest episode of the Ebu Access Cast. After very hot summer, our team is back with the newest news reports from the assistive tech industry. However before we get into the newest updates we would like to notify our listeners that from now on our podcast is available on the iTunes as well, so anyone who is using their favourite Apple gadget or smart speaker such as Google Home is finally able to hear us and listen to our show when and where ever you want. To find us on the iTu...
Ebu Access Cast 03
July 23, 2018 09:10 - 51 minutes - 53.9 MBWelcome to the third episode of the Ebu Access Cast, our official podcast from EBU about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted population across the Europe. In our final episode before the summer break Jakob Rosin and Mario Percinic are joined by Bart Simons from Belgium as our third member of the team who gave us one more opinion opinion about the upcoming stories which we prepared for you this time. Apple Developing Device and Wearable to Help Deaf and Blind Travelers...
Ebu Access Cast 02
June 20, 2018 11:42 - 40 minutes - 44.3 MBWelcome to our second episode of the Ebu Access Cast. Our hosts Mario Percinic and Jakob Rosin prepared a bunch of news from the assistive tech industry, and at the end of the Podcast, you will be able to hear a short demonstration about Google Home. But first let’s check what news do we have for you this time: Microsoft launched new version of Windows 10 for all members of their Windows Insiders program, and the version is called Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17692. Except ma...
EBU Access Cast 01
May 15, 2018 20:05 - 35 minutes - 34.2 MBWelcome to the first episode of the EbuAccessCast, an official podcast from EBU which talks about assistive technology for blind and partially sighted people across Europe. Our hosts today in the first episode, Mario Percinic and Jakob Rosin, introduce themselves and then later talk about few things which occurred during last week in the mainstream tech portals as well as a few others which happened in the assistive tech industry. In the news: Google's Lookout will help the blind navigat...