Accessible tech, tested against real life.
Living Blindfully treats accessibility as both a product question and a civil-rights question. It moves from iPhone and recorder demos to board governance, agency leadership, and the everyday consequences of design decisions.
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Living Blindfully is a show about blindness, low vision, accessible technology, and the systems that decide what counts as access. It is practical first. The show can spend serious time inside a device menu, naming the soft key, the setting, the sample rate, the screen reader feedback, and the point where one model behaves differently from another. That detail matters. A Zoom H1 Essential, H4 Essential, or H6 Essential is not just audio gear here; it is a test of whether a blind person can record, navigate, recover, and work without unnecessary friction. Apple coverage follows the same standard. New iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, software features, and Apple Intelligence are discussed through battery warnings, VoiceOver, hearing support, and the realities of moving through the world while relying on audio cues. The show is also openly political in the small-p sense. It asks who leads blindness organizations, who sits in product conversations early enough to matter, and what happens when services for blind people are not led by blind people. That advocacy gives the show its edge. It is not a product cheerleading feed, even when it is excited by a useful feature. It wants the feature to work. It also wants the design culture behind it to be fair. Interviews with people such as Mark Riccobono, Steve Tyler, Greg Stilson, and Jason Martin broaden the frame from individual tools to institutions, tactile technology, app ecosystems, and advocacy strategy. Community contributions add texture, especially around recycling systems, iOS updates, Braille workflows, accessible social spaces, and app policy disputes. The pacing is measured. Segments often begin with a concrete experience, then widen into a bigger accessibility lesson. There is room for dry humor and local color, but the center of gravity is precision. Living Blindfully suits listeners who care about how technology actually behaves when sight is not assumed, and who also care about who gets a say before those tools reach the public.
Made for: For blind and low-vision listeners, accessibility advocates, assistive-technology users, and product people who want precise accounts of what works, what fails, and why it matters.
What sets it apart: The show combines step-by-step product demonstrations with firm advocacy about leadership, design power, and institutional accountability. It treats accessibility details as evidence, not decoration.
Sight is a highly dominant sense. If you have it, naturally you’ll use it for a lot of things. But if you don’t have it, or you don’t have as much sight as you used to, it’s still possible to live a rich, full life. This podcast is all about how it’s done.We offer tips and tricks for living blindfully, including plenty about the latest accessible technology, but we discuss the barriers too, ranging from attitudinal barriers to accessibility barriers and more.Hear interviews with movers and shakers in the field, plus plenty from our engaged Living Blindfully community. You're welcome to join the conversation.And always remember, with your cane, you’re able.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Living Blindfully makes accessible technology legible through exacting demonstrations, informed interviews, and close attention to blind people's influence over product design.
Living Blindfully treats accessibility as something to test in use and contest in public. Jonathan Mosen moves between detailed device demonstrations and interviews about who gets to shape products and services for blind people.
Jonathan Mosen walks through a recorder's menu when you need accessibility explained down to the buttons.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
An iPhone 16 Pro unboxing, a United Blind Leaders win, and a grounded look at blindness-sector leadership.
Living Blindfully turns a bonus episode into a fairly neat mix of product notes and advocacy. Heidi's iPhone 16 Pro unboxing gives the most concrete material, and the VoiceOver angle keeps it relevant to screen reader users.
A practical Apple event recap for blind listeners, with everyday tradeoffs kept in focus.
Apple's latest event is handled with a practical, blindness-first lens by Jonathan Mosen, Judy Dixon, and Mike Ferris, with attention on this year's iPhones, Apple Watches, and the software behind them.
A farewell episode that becomes a practical discussion of accessibility, trust, and what comes next.
Jonathan Mosen uses this special midweek edition to close Living Blindfully and to introduce his new role with the National Federation of the Blind, in conversation with NFB President Mark Riccobono.
A CEO recruitment complaint and a detailed look at the Monarch's SDK, tactile features, and accessibility use cases.
Living Blindfully splits its attention between Vision Australia's quick CEO recruitment process and a detailed look at the Monarch device, giving the episode a clean two-part shape.
A focused tour of the H1 Essential with especially useful attention to menu behavior.
Jonathan Mosen's look at the Zoom H1 Essential stays tightly focused on the smallest recorder in Zoom's Essential family, with the menu system kept front and center throughout.
Firearms Q&A with the filter removed.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
This episode covers tech news and product reviews relevant to blind and low vision individuals, including Voice Dream Reader, iOS 17.4, and the Keto Breath Sensor.
Heidi tests the iPhone 16 Pro's camera control, action button, and VoiceOver after setup.
Living Blindfully episode 301 is a four-person panel review of Apple's 'It's Glow Time' September 2024 event — covering Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods, and iPhone 16 — analyzed specifically from a blindness and low-vision accessibility perspective.
In a special midweek episode 299 of Living Blindfully, Jonathan Mosen announces he is ending the podcast to join the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) as a strategic technology and accessibility advocate — a role he describes as the natural extension of the advocacy his podcast has enabled.
Living Blindfully episode 297 leads with Jonathan Mosen's claim that Vision Australia should not limit its CEO search to internal expressions of interest.
Living Blindfully episode 295 examines Mattel’s Blind Barbie and Zoom’s H1 XLR recorder, with Jonathan Mosen also raising questions about Meta smart glasses.
Living Blindfully episode 294 gives Jonathan Mosen's first look at Apple Intelligence in the iOS 18.1 developer beta and its VoiceOver-accessibility rough edges.
New Zealand’s six-year Royal Commission report estimates that 200,000 people were abused over seven decades, including blind and disabled survivors.
Jonathan Mosen’s Living Blindfully episode 292 examines the Overcast rewrite and its accessibility tradeoffs for VoiceOver users.
Living Blindfully episode 289 launches a WhatsApp contact line, +44 787 446 4152, for voice and text messages.
Jonathan Mosen announces that he left his five-year post as chief executive of Workbridge last Friday and calls his situation 'an intermission of undetermined length' rather than retirement.
A comprehensive review and demonstration of the Zoom H1 Essential audio recorder, focusing on its accessibility features for blind and low-vision users.
A detailed review of the Zoom H4 Essential recorder, focusing on its accessibility features for blind and low-vision users.
A comprehensive review and demonstration of the Zoom H6 Essential recorder from a blindness and low vision perspective, covering its accessibility features.