The Tech Docs
What’s up DOC?! Meet the power-hungry Doc. The commander Doc. Two rebel Docs constantly plotting technological mayhem. And the captain Doc desperately trying to stop it all going off the rails. Minor detail: they’re all blind or vision impaired. Once a month, Stuart, Jackie, Jade, Ken and Pat gather their collective wisdom (and questionable decision-making skills) to poke, prod, test, break, and occasionally understand the tech that’s meant to make life easier. From apps that behave… to gadgets that absolutely do not… nothing is safe. It’s tech talk. It’s chaos. It’s lived experience. It’s TECH DOC!
Episodes
Chainsaw Carving? Speaking Access
Jade and Jackie sit down with Christopher Mutch, owner and inventor of Speaking Access, voice control software for Windows and NVDA. Find out how somebody goes from chainsaw carving to writing computer software.
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Bugs, Bots and Forty Litres of Milk: iOS 27, ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta Glasses
What's up, Docs! In episode eight, Jackie interviews ChatGPT about what it can do for blind and vision-impaired users, and the Docs share first impressions of iOS 27 and VoiceOver, the worst accessibility bugs they've lived through (JAWS included), and a Gemini screen-reading tip for Android. Plus Meta glasses go on trial in Use It or Lose It...
Captain Doc Under Examination – Blind Tennis World Championships Interview
What's up, Docs! Breaking news from the Tech Docs Clinic: Captain Doc has been called in for interrogation, and the power-hungry Doc is in charge. She once beat him at tennis, and she won't let him forget it. Stuart H explains how blind tennis works, rattly ball included, and shares his audio diary from representing Ireland at the Worl...
TechDoc Clinic: Meta Glasses Special
A very special episode about accessibility, independence, privacy - and why a pair of glasses can be far more than just another shiny gadget.
The Clinic Is Open
The Docs are back sooner than expected, and this time the clinic has been opened for a very important reason. We are putting Meta smart glasses under the TechDoc microscope and looking at what this technology can reall...
Sligo, Saints and Smart Tech
What’s up, Docs!
The Docs are back - and this month we’re talking WeWALK, Daisee, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, AIB’s newly updated banking app, noise-cancelling tech and the gadgets that have genuinely changed our lives.
There’s also the small matter of Sligo becoming the Bermuda Triangle of GPS, a mysterious green furry object in a fridge, abandoned Toblerones, and a b...
Bonus Episode: We Walk Talk
Gremlins in the Machine
We regret to inform you that a small but determined population of gremlins has taken up residence in the podcast. Wires have been chewed, files have been mysteriously renamed, and at least one microphone has filed a formal complaint.
We’re working on eviction. It’s slower going than we’d like — gremlins are notoriously bad at reading notices — so the next episode is going to...
Tech and Trauma
Declan’s Coding Corner
Meet your tech docs: Stuart, Jackie, Jade, Ken, and Pat.
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