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Remembering Brett Halle: The Apple Engineer Who Helped Build Mac OS X

Brett 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

NASA's Artemis Webinar for Blind People: RS-25 Engines, Blind Engineers and Accessible Space

NASA 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

Microsoft's Hybrid AI Windows Event and the Surface Laptop Ultra

Microsoft'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

Gemini Guided Vision Tested, Siri Frustrations and Android Help From Listeners

Google 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 a

A Tribute to Brett Halle and What Envision's News Means for Users

Envision 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

Lumin Adds Outlook Support and Audio Reminders, With Sriram Ganesh

Lumin, 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 Ga

NVDA Bugs, Siri AI Frustrations and Your Emails on Mastodon and LiDAR

Siri 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 L

Meta Ray-Ban Display Hands-On, Lumin Updates and the Double Tap App

Can 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

Meta Glasses Bugs, Smart Glasses Privacy and the Launch of Double Tap Live

Meta 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 episod

Feedback: Luna Glasses for Night Blindness, Claude Code Tips and Bricks for the Blind

Double 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 witho

Feedback: Passkey Headaches, Seeing AI Rescues and the Smart Glasses Debate

Passkeys 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 manager

OOrion on Meta Glasses: Hands-Free Object Finding and What Meta Connect Means for Blind Users

Meta'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

More From Zero Project: Rebuilding a Career After a Spinal Cord Injury: Ishaan Mehta of LinkedIn

A 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 LinkedI

Early Dementia Screening, Inclusive Design and Employment in Mumbai: Zero Project Conference India Day Two

Early 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

Meta 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 Pree

Ten Innovators, One Room: Accessible Tech Ideas From the Zero Project Technology Forum

Assistive 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

Apple's AirPods 5 Impress, But Google's New Laptops Leave Accessibility Unanswered

AirPods 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 stil

Kerbcut Launches, Meta Connect and the Googlebook Coming Soon: A Big Week for Accessible Tech

Finding assistive technology that already exists is still the hardest part of using it. Hector Minto, formerly of Microsoft, explains Kerbcut, his new AI discovery platfo

Googlebooks, Aluminium OS and the Schlage Smart Lock That Opens Itself

Google 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 Sha

Weekend: Lumin - The Voice‑First Email App

Discover 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