AppTV: YouTube Accessibility
Duration: minutes and secondsYouTube users watch one billion hours of video every day and over half of that is consumed on mobile devices. Tasia Custode walks us through the app and its accessibility features.
Learn about the accessibility features on mobile apps that can be life-changing for Canadians of all abilities.
Learn about the accessibility features on mobile apps that can be life-changing for Canadians of all abilities.
YouTube users watch one billion hours of video every day and over half of that is consumed on mobile devices. Tasia Custode walks us through the app and its accessibility features.
The accessible video game app A Blind Legend uses stereo sound to guide gamers of all abilities through the many traps that lie in store for them in this action-packed adventure.
Not knowing which restaurants, hotels, bars and stores were accessible frustrated Maayan Ziv. So she built an app for that. AppTV's Richard Harlow speaks to Ziv about AccessNow, which uses crowdsourcing to rate the accessibility of businesses.
Did you know you can use voice control for TP-Link smart plugs using the Amazon Dot? This WiFi enabled smart plug will allow you to control any device from wherever you are. The innovative technology will allow you to switch off a light remotely or even warm up a crock pot from afar.
Whether you’re someone who is colour blind, partially sighted or blind, ColorID lets you identify specific colours easily using your smartphone. Learn how the accessibility app works and benefits people of all abilities.
Tasia Custode gives tips on how to optimize your Google search app using voice commands on both Android and iOS devices.
In this episode of AppTV, Tasia Custode explores Glimmer, an inclusive dating app designed to help people with disabilities make social and romantic connections.
AppTV’s Tasia Custode, introduces us to Amazon's Echo Dot a hands free, voice controlled device that allows users the use a variety of exciting features.
AccessNow aims to share accessibility information around the world.
Tasia Custode is a TV Host and Video Producer with over a decade of broadcast experience. Whether online, on the radio or on TV, Tasia has honed her skills both in front and behind the camera and runs her own production company, Brio Media.
In this episode of AppTV, Richard Harlow introduces us to a game that uses experimental storytelling and is played entirely through sound. Find out how this game pulls you in to help the narrator navigate the game.
The Google Calendar app can make keeping your life organized a breeze. Tasia Custode walks us through some of her favourite features of the app and how to set them up.
Up your home theatre game by enhancing your TV sound quality with Sonos Playbase speaker. AppTV's walks us through the set up and music streaming options.
Track and control your home air quality from anywhere with the Philips Connected Air Purifier and app. AppTV's Tasia Custode provides step-by-step instructions.
Join Richard Harlow as he shows us how to make a fully accessible custom keyboard for your iPhone using the Viking Keyboard app.
Tasia Custode and Richard Harlow walk through Workflow, an iOS app that helps people of all abilities get more done. Similar to "if this, then that" services, Workflow allows users to group together a series of actions to complete complicated tasks.
Join AppTV's Tasia Custode as she walks through the coolest updates to the Netflix app, including a fantastic new accessibility feature for audio description.
The Aipoly Vision app uses artificial intelligence to describe the world in front of you in real time. See the app in action as AppTV's Tasia Custode takes it for a spin.
AppTV's Tasia Custode and Richard Harlow go exploring using the robust navigation app, Nearby Explorer. Find out how this app can help you get around using GPS and crowd sourced data.
Notes on Blindness is a virtual reality app that uses immersive sound and story telling to create empathy for the unsighted community. Learn how professor John Hull's audio dairy documenting his vision loss helps users see, hear and feel the world through his eyes.
Learn why Ariadne GPS is one of Richard Harlow's favourite navigation apps. He explains how this fully-featured app can help you get around.
When you’re blind or partially sighted, identifying money can be challenging. AppTV's Richard Harlow introduces the Money Reader app, which helps people identify all the bills in their wallet by currency and denomination.
AppTV's Tasia Custode chats with the Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison about how he began reviewing films and which apps he can’t live without.
VoiceOver integration makes Chess-Wise the first chess app that is fully accessible for people who are blind or partially sighted. AppTV co-host Richard Harlow puts it to the test.
AppTV's Richard Harlow shows us how Blindsquare provides descriptions for points of interest around you both indoors and outdoors. What's the coolest part? iBeacons!
AppTV's Richard Harlow uses Instagram and yes, he's still legally blind! He explains how accessibility tools provide a great user experience for people of all abilities.
Get your move on with Tasia Custode on this episode of AppTV, as she gives a shout out to the traveler's best friend when on the road...Google.
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AppTV's Tasia Custode introduces the us to the Medisafe app, a virtual medication manager and pillbox. Medisafe helps you keep track of pill counts, and gives helpful Refill reminders. It also allows you to send progress reports to your doctor, family and friends!
On this episode of AppTV, Tasia Custode demonstrates TapTapSee, a free camera app for Apple iOS and Android that can identify and describe products, photos and signs for people who are blind or partially sighted.
Be My Eyes is a free iOS mobile app that connects blind and partially sighted users in need of assistance with sighted volunteers via a live video connection.
Tasia Custode speaks to Geoff Anderson, the creator + founder of the social-dating app, Glimmer, an inclusive dating app designed to help people of all abilities make social and romantic connections.
It’s a head-to-head battle of music apps on AppTV. Hosts Tasia Custode and Richard Harlow compare how people of all abilities can use the popular music recognition apps Shazam and SoundHound.
There are many situations where a pair of friendly eyes can be helpful for those with a visual impairment.
Hosts Tasia Custode and Richard Harlow take a look at the hugely popular WhatsApp. Richard, who is blind, takes Tasia through six of the most useful accessibility features of this powerful messaging app.
Learn why NaturalReader is AppTV host Richard Harlow's favourite text-to-speech app.