Accessible tech, tested in real life.
RNIB Tech Talk tracks the gadgets, apps, services, and access issues shaping daily life for blind and partially sighted people. It mixes practical demos with newsroom-style updates, community tips, and conversations about how technology handles accessibility.
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RNIB Tech Talk is a long-running RNIB Connect Radio programme focused on technology from a blind and partially sighted perspective. It has the feel of a weekly desk conversation, with regular voices trading notes on what they have tested, read, struggled with, or found unexpectedly useful. The scope is broad. Mainstream consumer tech sits beside specialist accessibility hardware, workplace tools, audio description, navigation devices, braille displays, and accessible games. That range matters. A discussion of Sonos soundbars can lead into how home audio ecosystems actually behave, while a segment on Be My Eyes Workplace can move into inaccessible graphs, charts, training materials, meeting rooms, and the independence lost when information is still designed mainly for sighted colleagues. The show is practical without becoming dry. It explains apps such as Todoist, Pocket Casts, WikiTrip, Reddit, WhatsApp, and Card World in terms of everyday use, not only feature lists. It also follows bigger industry signals, including Sony's accessibility work, CSUN announcements, Alexa Plus, streaming audio description, and new tactile display technology. Episodes often begin with a quick round of what has caught the contributors' attention. Then the programme shifts into interviews, demos, event reports, and listener-focused accessibility questions. The pacing is friendly and direct. It is not a gadget show for spectacle; it is a technology show for people who need products, services, and digital spaces to make sense with VoiceOver, voice tools, braille, audio description, and accessible design. That gives it a distinctive editorial value. RNIB Tech Talk makes accessibility feel current, concrete, and connected to the same apps and devices everyone else is trying to use.
Made for: For blind and partially sighted listeners, technology volunteers, and anyone who wants practical detail on how products work in everyday use.
What sets it apart: Its strength is lived perspective: mainstream apps, specialist tools, and big-brand accessibility work are judged by how they behave in ordinary use, at work, at home, and on the move.
The freezer-label question gets asked, so your accessible tech advice survives contact with dinner.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A workplace-access episode that makes charts, walls, and meeting rooms feel like the real test.
RNIB Tech Talk this week keeps its focus on workplace access, using Be My Eyes Workplace to show how blind employees can reach inaccessible information, charts, training materials, and even the post-it covered walls of a brainstorming room.
Practical accessible audio advice, with lived experience keeping the tech talk honest.
RNIB Tech Talk uses Sony's LinkBuds range as an entry point to a broader accessibility conversation, with the Lived Experience conference in Birmingham and an RNIB technology specialist adding useful context.
A practical run through Apple news, accessible hardware updates, and the battery-life questions that matter after the announcements.
RNIB Tech Talk makes accessible technology news feel close to everyday decisions, not just product chatter. The episode moves from the soon-arriving BrailleSense firmware 3.0, with its new web browser and wider word-processor page-layout options, to the Orbit player, where…
Practical screen-reader news with community context.
Blindness and low vision, grounded in daily access.
Step-by-step screen reader training that stays practical.
Assistive tech talk from the field.
Assistive tech explained, plus honest talk about living blind.
Assistive tech makers, asked the questions a buyer would.
This episode discusses technology news from a blind and partially sighted perspective, including the Dot Pad X tactile display, ChatGPT features, and WhatsApp's new username testing.
RNIB Tech Talk episode 582 covers accessibility tech updates, starting with Jackie Brown announcing a BrailleSense firmware update and the upcoming Orbit daisy player.
This episode of RNIB Tech Talk covers multiple tech topics from a blind and partially sighted perspective.
Ashley Cox explains why Simulcast prioritizes private data, flexible controls, and accessibility testing.
RNIB Tech Talk 625 combines reports from Sight Village Central in Birmingham with Hubert Pavelkovic’s demonstration of the Sofa downtime-organizing app.
RNIB Tech Talk 624 covers Apple TV software changes, George Bell’s assistive-technology legacy, Hable’s Speech Label products, Tractive GPS, Gemini Deep Research, and accessible technology at the Office for National Statistics.
RNIB Tech Talk covers KeyQuest typing practice, FedEx delivery controls hidden from screen-reader users, and Kelly Ford’s Quick Mail email client.
This episode of Tech Talk discusses accessible technology for the blind and partially sighted community, including the Nextdoor app for local updates, Sony's accessibility work, and new accessible gaming apps like Card World.
This episode discusses Sony's LinkBuds, the Lived Experience Conference, and experiences as an RNIB technology volunteer, focusing on tech news from a blind and partially sighted perspective.
This episode discusses accessible technology for blind and partially sighted people, including Sony products, audio description services, and personal tech investigations like soundbars.
This episode of Tech Talk covers technology from a blind and partially sighted perspective, including updates from Sight Village Glasgow, reviews of WikiTrip and Whispr Flow apps, and news about Alexa Plus rollout.
This episode discusses accessibility technology announcements from the CSUN conference, a demo of the Pocket Casts app, and a charity gaming stream, all from a blind and partially sighted perspective.
Be My Eyes Workplace, presented on RNIB Tech Talk by Callum Stoneman, introduces Mike Buckley and Andy Lane as a workplace accessibility system for blind and low-vision employees.
This episode previews RNIB's upcoming technology fair in Northern Ireland, discusses how technology assists people living with diabetes, and explores personal experiences with task management apps like Todoist from a blind and low vision perspective.
This episode discusses WhatsApp's new username feature for improved privacy, particularly benefiting blind and partially sighted users by allowing them to hide their phone numbers in groups.
This episode discusses technology updates from a blind and partially sighted perspective, covering reactions to the Apple Event, a review of wireless headphones, and news about braille sense firmware and the orbit player.
This episode of Tech Talk discusses accessibility technology for blind and partially sighted people, including the NOA wearable mobility aid, the discontinuation of the Speech Radio app, and a tech timeline feature.