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Double Tap is the show where blind people talk tech! If you’re blind or partially sighted and have an interest in technology, this is the show for you. Everyone is welcome no matter how old you are or how much or how little experience you have with technology. Each week the team will help you better understand how technology can help your everyday life, even if you have little or no sight.Double Tap Productions Inc. Tous les jours
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  • Early Dementia Screening, Inclusive Design and Employment in Mumbai: Zero Project Conference India Day Two

    Early Dementia Screening, Inclusive Design and Employment in Mumbai: Zero Project Conference India Day Two
    Sep 25 2026
    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 disabled workers. Steven Scott reports from day two of Zero Project Conference India in Mumbai, the regional edition of the conference that takes over the UN in Vienna every February.NEMA AI founder Nidhi built AI at Accenture before starting a company that maps the brain using off the shelf Emotiv headsets. Ten or fifteen minutes of recording, two minutes of analysis, and a doctor gets a picture of memory, stress, sleep and attention. The aim is catching mild cognitive decline at 45 or 50 rather than 65, where approved drugs can stretch what would have been one brutal year into ten. She keeps reports away from consumers on purpose, because a number you cannot interpret at two in the morning creates worry. She also has firm views on ADHD, which she says shows clearly in how fast neurons fire, and little patience for diagnosis by Instagram.Dr Sambhavi Chandrashekar is global accessibility lead at D2L, makers of the Brightspace learning platform, and chairs the Global Leadership Council of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals. She explains inclusive design as iterative work that is never finished, uses the curb cut to show how one group's fix can be another group's hazard, and lands on personalisation as the answer for digital interfaces. She is enthusiastic about India writing its own procurement standard, IS 17802, rather than adopting the European EN 301 549, and quotes disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold on regulations allowing disabled people to dream. Steven pushes back on her position that Braille is literacy, and her doctoral research supplies the line of the day: if a website is not accessible, the blind participants did not consider it credible.Youth4Jobs hosted the conference and works on one thing, getting disabled young people in India into paid work, with nearly 4,000 employer partners and a programme sending disabled people door to door in their own communities. Where a job is not the answer, it helps set up a business with loans and grants, which matters most for disabled women whose families have written them off. Nand Kishore, who runs events and NGO partnerships there, tells his own story: a spinal cord injury three years ago, nine months in bed, delivery work, then a full time job, a marriage and marathons.Two more conversations from day two, including accessibility auditing firm Ashtavakra and a 21 year old founder claiming a 52 dollar LiDAR handheld can replace a white cane, are on the Double Tap YouTube channel in full.Chapters0:00 – Day two in Mumbai: inside Zero Project Conference India1:55 – NEMA AI: EEG brain mapping and catching decline early7:00 – Is ADHD real? What a brain map actually shows12:51 – Why the results go to a doctor and not to you15:50 – Sambhavi Chandrashekar on what inclusive design means22:52 – Can a fully inclusive world exist?28:03 – India and Canada compared: standards, money and IS 1780235:55 – Braille literacy and why accessibility equals credibility42:24 – Youth4Jobs, employment and Nand Kishore's own story52:03 – More from Mumbai on the Double Tap YouTube channelRelevant LinksZero Project Conference India: https://zeroprojectconferenceindia.orgZero Project: https://zeroproject.orgYouth4Jobs: https://youth4jobs.orgNEMA AI: https://nemaai.comEmotiv: https://www.emotiv.comD2L Brightspace: https://www.d2l.comAshtavakra Accessibility Solutions: https://ashtavakra.co.inTech Mahindra Foundation: https://techmahindrafoundation.orgLaw Office of Lainey Feingold: https://www.lflegal.comDouble Tap: https://doubletaponair.com ----Follow on:YouTube: https://www.doubletaponair.com/youtubeX (formerly Twitter): https://www.doubletaponair.com/xInstagram: https://www.doubletaponair.com/instagramTikTok: https://www.doubletaponair.com/tiktokThreads: https://www.doubletaponair.com/threadsFacebook: https://www.doubletaponair.com/facebookLinkedIn: https://www.doubletaponair.com/linkedinSubscribe to the Podcast:Apple: https://www.doubletaponair.com/appleSpotify: https://www.doubletaponair.com/spotifyRSS: https://www.doubletaponair.com/podcastiHeadRadio: https://www.doubletaponair.com/iheartAbout Double TapHosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited."Double Tap" is a registered trademark of Double Tap Productions Inc. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for ...
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  • More From Zero Project: Rebuilding a Career After a Spinal Cord Injury: Ishaan Mehta of LinkedIn

    More From Zero Project: Rebuilding a Career After a Spinal Cord Injury: Ishaan Mehta of LinkedIn
    Sep 26 2026

    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 LinkedIn he never settled for.

    Most of the people on Double Tap were born blind or lost their sight gradually. Ishaan Mehta's disability arrived on 21 October 2016. He had eight and a half years at Vodafone behind him, a project management career and a Six Sigma black belt, when a C5-C6 cervical injury left him quadriplegic with very little movement below the neck.

    He talks Steven Scott and Shaun Preece through the practical problem first. How do you use a phone when you cannot use your hands? A clamp to hold the device, a stylus with an extension, and a baby's pacifier on the tip so it is safe to hold in his mouth. From there came QuadJoy, the sip-and-puff mouth joystick from QuadLife, which put a laptop back within reach and made employment realistic again.

    He is honest about the part people usually leave out. A fistula in his throat, a second surgery on the anniversary of the accident, over a year in hospital, and the point in March 2018 when he questioned whether he wanted to be here at all. What turned it was realising his life was not only his own, and that far more remained possible than had been lost.

    Then the job search. He found most employers treating disability hiring as a tick-box exercise with the role already decided for him, so he changed tactics: a list of 50 companies he genuinely wanted to work for, filtered for real evidence of inclusive practice. He ended up with two offers, and chose the one that told him he was overqualified for the role he had applied for. His argument is simple. Employment is a barter of skills for pay, and that does not change because you are disabled.

    Chapters
    0:00 – Welcome and why this interview stands alone
    2:01 – Meet Ishaan Mehta
    3:37 – The career before the injury
    5:06 – Working out how to use a phone again
    7:29 – QuadJoy and getting back onto a laptop
    9:37 – Complications, hospital, and the lowest point
    14:16 – Three pillars: health, employment, giving back
    16:30 – Fifty companies and two job offers
    22:21 – The role at LinkedIn today
    23:12 – Zero Project, AI and the future of work

    Relevant Links
    Zero Project: https://zeroproject.org
    QuadJoy by QuadLife: https://quad.life/product
    Pneuma Solutions: https://pneumasolutions.com
    Double Tap: https://www.doubletaponair.com

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

    OOrion on Meta Glasses: Hands-Free Object Finding and What Meta Connect Means for Blind Users
    Sep 27 2026

    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 Connect to explain what this means for blind and low vision people using Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

    OOrion finds objects and guides you to them with spatial audio. It now runs on Meta's glasses, so you can look around and ask where your keys are, which gate you're at, or what's in a tin, without holding up a phone. Stéphanie talks about Meta's new discovery platform, the coming "Hey Meta, open OOrion" command, and the Connect panel where she told Meta's Chris Barbour that accessibility is the most important thing these glasses can do.

    Steven Scott and Stéphanie also get into the business side. OOrion stays free for users, and venues like museums, hotels and train stations pay to have the AI trained on their spaces. A big deal with the French supermarket chain Intermarché may be close.

    The conversation also covers Europe's stricter rules, why running mostly on the device made the move to glasses easier, how feedback from OOrion users led Meta to cut latency and add Wi-Fi streaming, and what's next, including Find Anything and giving users context inside complex places like hospitals.

    Chapters
    0:00 – Intro: Meta's toolkit comes out of beta
    1:27 – Inside Meta Connect at Menlo Park
    3:37 – Discovery platform and "Hey Meta, open OOrion"
    7:50 – Why accessibility matters most on smart glasses
    11:02 – Museums, remote controls and design for everyone
    13:29 – Free for users: the venue business model and Intermarché
    16:28 – Listening to the community
    18:53 – Working with Meta, European rules and latency
    23:24 – Running locally versus cloud AI
    25:09 – What's next: Find Anything and smarter places

    Relevant Links
    OOrion: https://www.oorion.fr/en
    Meta Wearables Developer Center: https://wearables.developer.meta.com/
    Ray-Ban Meta and Meta AI glasses: https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/

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    About Double Tap

    Hosted by the insightful duo, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece, Double Tap is a treasure trove of information for anyone who's blind or partially sighted and has a passion for tech. Steven and Shaun not only demystify tech, but they also regularly feature interviews and welcome guests from the community, fostering an interactive and engaging environment. Tune in every day of the week, and you'll discover how technology can seamlessly integrate into your life, enhancing daily tasks and experiences, even if your sight is limited.

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