Double Tap
by Steven Scott, Shaun Preece, Steven Scott, Shaun Preece
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Double Tap is the show where blind people talk tech! If you’re blind or partially sighted and have an interest in technology, this is the show for you. Everyone is welcome no matter how old you are or how much or how little experience you have with technology. Each week the team will help you better understand how technology can help your everyday life, even if you have little or no sight.
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- Lumin Shuts Down, SpeakTab Makes Music Accessible, and Good Vibes Is Coming · 56 minLumin, the voice-first email app built for blind users, is shutting down. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece look at why, then meet Eden Brown, who used vibe coding to build SpeakTab…
- HapWare Aleye, Time's Best Inventions and the Smart Glasses Ban Debate · 56 minHapWare's Aleye wristband, named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2026, turns smiles, waves and handshakes into vibrations that blind users can feel. CEO Jack Walters…
- TurnOver for Mac and the Latest on Glidance's Glide · 56 minTurnOver, a free and open source screen reader for the Mac, has Steven Scott and Shaun Preece rethinking the Mac. Glidance CEO Amos Miller also shares what more than 30 pilot…
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang Makes Headlines and a Conversation with The Blind Life's Sam Seavey · 56 minSam Seavey from The Blind Life joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to talk about making YouTube content with low vision, accessible Sony cameras, the Tovala smart oven, and…
- macOS Frustrations, the TurnOver Screen Reader and Offline GPS for Blind Users · 56 minCan VoiceOver on the Mac be made friendlier for blind users coming over from Windows? Steven Scott opens up the MacBook Neo, fights with the FaceTime app and finds a VoiceOver…
- Braille Literacy, Siri Blunders and Meta's Muse Agent: Your Feedback · 56 minDoes reading braille define literacy for blind people? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece work through listener feedback on learning braille later in life, what it means to be…
- Amazon's New Echo Devices, Siri Recap and Accessible WhatsApp Risks · 56 minAmazon's new Echo devices cost more than ever, and iOS 27.3 brings Siri Recap and Safari dark mode. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through what's new for blind tech users…
- Listener Inbox: Tailscale, Dream Jobs and the Case for Vibe Coding · 56 minVibe coding with Claude has taken over Steven Scott's spare time, and he and Shaun Preece think more blind people should try it. They explain how the setup works, why your files…
- Can Every Game Be Accessible? Stefan Wilhelm on Inclusive Gaming · 56 minCan a blind player enjoy a mainstream video game as much as a sighted one? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece talk accessible gaming with Stefan Wilhelm, co-founder of Inclusive…
- Duelling Duos: Two New iPhone Duo Users Discuss The Pros And Cons Of Apple's New Foldable Phone · 56 minIs the iPhone Duo, Apple's first foldable iPhone, any use if you can't see the screen? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece are joined by David Nason of AppleVis to test it with…
- Touchscreen MacBook Pro and Amazon's New Alexa+ Echo Lineup: Who Are They For? · 56 minApple's touchscreen MacBook Pro and Amazon's new Alexa+ devices arrived in the same week. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through the Echo Dot, Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame…
- New OLED iPad mini, Braille Watches and an Accessible Samsung Soundbar · 56 minApple's new iPad mini has an 8.5 inch OLED screen, the A20 Pro chip and a thinner 5.4mm body. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece talk about what it offers blind and low vision users…
- Retro Reader, Emergency Preparedness and the Withings Paywall · 56 minSean Randall has built Retro Reader, an open source book reader that brings classic speech voices like Eloquence, DECtalk and DoubleTalk to a pocket device costing about 22…
- How AI Helps Blind People Build PowerPoint, Plus Alexa+ and Apple News · 56 minPresentAble is a new JAWS app that lets blind people create, check and fix PowerPoint presentations on their own. Lawyer and trainer Jonathan Simeone explains why he built it…
- Learning Braille, Braille Display Prices and Cazerny Bussey's Even Though I'm Blind · 56 minWhy is learning braille as an adult still so hard, and why does a braille display cost more than a laptop? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dig into braille access and pricing. Then…
- Sky's Premier League Audio Description, Freight Fate and Apple HomeView · 56 minSky Sports is adding audio description and live captions to Premier League football. Then a listener's frustration with Sky Go shows how far the broadcaster still has to go…
- Aira, Google DeepMind and Guided Vision: How Blind Testers Trained Gemini · 56 minGoogle's new Guided Vision feature in Gemini Live was trained with help from Aira and its blind Trusted Testers. Everette Bacon and Lynette Frison of Aira explain how the…
- Alexa Tablets Go Android, Apple's Pro and Tell Event, and Amazon Bee · 56 minAmazon's new Alexa Tablets drop Fire OS for Android 16, TalkBack and the Google Play Store. Chris Cooke, host of At Your Fingertips, has been testing the Alexa Tablet 8 and tells…
- Anthony Corona on Blind Creators, Smart Glasses and Mobility Tech · 56 minSmart glasses for blind people made the national news this week. Anthony Corona of Sunday Edition joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to look at Meta Ray-Ban Display, Agiga…
- Zero Project Tokyo Part 2: Lingvano's Sign Language App and Turn-Motion's Robotic Leg Braces · 35 minTwo Austrian accessibility innovators from the Zero Project Technology Forum in Tokyo: Lingvano, the sign language learning app taught entirely by deaf teachers, and Turn-Motion…
- Zero Project Tokyo Part 1: OryLab's OriHime Robots and Miruoto's Visible Sports Sound · 31 minTwo Japanese accessibility innovators from the Zero Project Technology Forum in Tokyo: OryLab, whose OriHime robots let homebound disabled people go to work and school, and…
- Passwords, Passkeys and Blind Employment: A Double Tap Listener Mailbag · 56 minSteven Scott and Shaun Preece open the Double Tap mailbag to talk about Meta Ray-Ban battery life, password managers, blind employment and the best keyboard for one-handed…
- Are We Relying on AI Too Much? Claude, KeyAble and Accessible Auphonic · 56 minSteven Scott has set up a Claude hotline on an accessible Cisco desk phone. It leads into a frank debate about blind users relying on AI. Also covered: a Meta glasses firmware…
- Apple HomeView and What's Next for JAWS and ZoomText · 56 minApple's HomeView, a new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini 2 lead the news, then Vispero's Matt Ater and Ryan Jones explain how Vispero Companion in JAWS will change your settings and…
- Blind Artist Richard Harlow on Tactile Painting, Accessible Cities and Running for Nanaimo Council · 56 minRichard Harlow lost most of his sight to LHON while studying at Emily Carr University. Today he is a blind artist and accessibility advocate, and he's standing for Nanaimo City…
- Too Busy to Be Blind: An Apple Engineer's Second Act · 28 minIn 2015, after twelve surgeries, Brett Halle lost his sight completely. The engineer who spent twenty years building the Mac had to learn to use it with VoiceOver. He explains…
- Remembering Brett Halle: The Apple Engineer Who Helped Build Mac OS X · 27 minBrett Halle sold the Apple II as a student, joined Apple in 1991, and was the first engineer through the door after Apple bought NeXT. He led the Core OS team behind Mac OS X…
- NASA's Artemis Webinar for Blind People: RS-25 Engines, Blind Engineers and Accessible Space · 56 minNASA ran an Artemis webinar built for blind and low vision people, and two of the panelists are blind NASA engineers. Steven Scott talks to Dr. Robert Shelton, Dr. Craig Moore…
- Microsoft's Hybrid AI Windows Event and the Surface Laptop Ultra · 56 minMicrosoft's latest Windows event went all in on hybrid intelligence, which means AI that runs on your own PC when it can and in the cloud when it has to. Steven Scott and Shaun…
- Gemini Guided Vision Tested, Siri Frustrations and Android Help From Listeners · 56 minGoogle Gemini's new Guided Vision feature, built with Aira, gives blind and low vision Android users more detailed visual descriptions through Gemini Live. Steven Scott and Shaun…
- A Tribute to Brett Halle and What Envision's News Means for Users · 56 minEnvision has announced it may wind down. If no partner takes the company on, active development of the Envision and Ally apps stops on December 31, 2026. Steven Scott and Shaun…
- Lumin Adds Outlook Support and Audio Reminders, With Sriram Ganesh · 56 minLumin, the voice-first email app for blind and low vision users, now works with Outlook, Hotmail and MSN accounts and has a new audio reminders feature. Founder Sriram Ganesh…
- NVDA Bugs, Siri AI Frustrations and Your Emails on Mastodon and LiDAR · 56 minSiri AI on iOS 27, Gemini on Android and NVDA screen reader bugs all get a frank once-over from blind tech fans Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, along with your emails on LiDAR…
- Meta Ray-Ban Display Hands-On, Lumin Updates and the Double Tap App · 56 minCan a blind person get real use from smart glasses with a screen? Steven Scott has bought the Meta Ray-Ban Display and Meta Neural Band. He and Shaun Preece talk through the…
- Meta Glasses Bugs, Smart Glasses Privacy and the Launch of Double Tap Live · 56 minMeta smart glasses bugs, privacy worries and region limits fill the Double Tap inbox, and Steven Scott and Shaun Preece work through them with blind listeners. The episode also…
- Feedback: Luna Glasses for Night Blindness, Claude Code Tips and Bricks for the Blind · 56 minDouble Tap Live, a new 24/7 radio channel for blind and visually impaired listeners, launches this week. Listener stories also cover Luna night vision glasses, LEGO without sight…
- Feedback: Passkey Headaches, Seeing AI Rescues and the Smart Glasses Debate · 56 minPasskeys were supposed to replace passwords, so why are they still this hard to use? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through a full mailbag on passkeys, password managers, blind…
- OOrion on Meta Glasses: Hands-Free Object Finding and What Meta Connect Means for Blind Users · 28 minMeta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit is out of beta, and Meta chose accessibility apps to show it off. Stéphanie Robieux, co-founder and CEO of OOrion, joins from Meta Connect…
- More From Zero Project: Rebuilding a Career After a Spinal Cord Injury: Ishaan Mehta of LinkedIn · 29 minA spinal cord injury took Ishaan Mehta's career in a single afternoon. This is how he rebuilt it, with assistive technology, a list of 50 employers, and a role at LinkedIn he…
- Early Dementia Screening, Inclusive Design and Employment in Mumbai: Zero Project Conference India Day Two · 56 minEarly dementia screening from a consumer EEG headset, a blunt answer on whether a fully inclusive world is possible, and what India's own accessibility standard means for…
- Meta Connect 2026 Through an Accessibility Lens · 56 minMeta Connect 2026 brought Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses with no cameras, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, a hearing enhancement feature and the Muse AI agent. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go…
- Ten Innovators, One Room: Accessible Tech Ideas From the Zero Project Technology Forum · 56 minAssistive technology innovation from the Zero Project Technology Forum in Mumbai: an audiobook library you reach on any phone, an accessible home pregnancy test app, and AI photo…
- Apple's AirPods 5 Impress, But Google's New Laptops Leave Accessibility Unanswered · 56 minAirPods 5 open-ear noise cancellation put to the test by blind users, plus Google's new Googlebook Android laptops, the pricing, and the accessibility answers Google still has…
- Kerbcut Launches, Meta Connect and the Googlebook Coming Soon: A Big Week for Accessible Tech · 56 minFinding assistive technology that already exists is still the hardest part of using it. Hector Minto, formerly of Microsoft, explains Kerbcut, his new AI discovery platform for…
- Googlebooks, Aluminium OS and the Schlage Smart Lock That Opens Itself · 28 minGoogle is keeping the Chromebook and adding a pricier Googlebook line running Aluminium OS, built on Android 17 with Gemini baked in at system level. Steven Scott and Shaun…
- Weekend: Lumin - The Voice‑First Email App · 29 minDiscover how Lumin, a voice‑first email app for iPhone, is transforming email management for the blind and low‑vision community. Learn how AI and audio‑only design bring speed…
- Christine Malec on NASA's Accessible Artemis Webinar and Why Manuals Still Fail Us · 56 minNASA is hosting its first webinar built for blind and low vision audiences, and Christine Malec is on the panel. She joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to explain what the…
- Smart Locks, Braille and the iPhone 18: Blind Listeners Weigh In · 56 minBlind listeners share how they really use Meta Ray-Ban glasses, OOrion, smart locks and braille. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also take a hard look at Siri AI in iOS 27 and ask…
- Local AI PCs, Home Networks and the Launch of Double Tap Live · 56 minMicrosoft has set 7 October for a Windows and Surface event built around local AI, and the rumoured Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA RTX Spark silicon could finally give Windows…
- Listener Emails on Meta Glasses, Luna AI, Runa TTS and Braille Pricing · 56 minShould blind and low vision users install iOS 27 right away? Steven Scott and Shaun Preece explain why VoiceOver users might wait a month. Then they open the inbox for listener…
