Double Tap

Face scans that reject blind users' eyes, a braille talking watch with an alarm and a UV printer that prints raised textures all come up in this Double Tap feedback show. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also try out Sony's retro MDR-3R headphones and ask whether iOS 27 is worth installing yet.
Steven explains why he bought Sony's Walkman-style MDR-3R wired headphones. Shaun talks about his trouble with the Logitech Zone headset, which still cuts off audio tones on a wired connection. Listener Tom misses Lovely Laura and doesn't like the AI voice that now reads the emails. That leads to an honest chat about why a human reader can't keep up with how much mail comes in.
Some Schmo suggests the eufyMake E1, a UV printer that builds raised textures up to 5mm high, and the hosts weigh up how useful it could be for tactile graphics and braille labels. Joel recently lost much of his sight. He describes using AI to bring Mystery Mansion, a 1980s text adventure from the HP 3000, to Android. That starts a conversation about vibe coding and the independence it can give.
Lena reviews the FutureAids Talking Braille Watch, which combines braille, speech and an alarm for 50 US dollars. Mark in Miami describes life with a keyless Yale smart lock. Scott in Sydney explains how to switch back to Siri Classic on iOS 27, though Steven still advises waiting before you update.
Sharon closes with a serious problem: passport and face scans that reject blind users because their eyes don't look like a sighted person's. Steven argues that age and ID checks should be built into the phone or computer's operating system, so they only have to be made accessible once.
Chapters
0:00 – Intro and Sony MDR-3R retro headphones
6:38 – Logitech Zone and headset recommendations
12:38 – Tom on the AI email voice
15:46 – eufyMake E1 tactile UV printer
20:15 – Joel brings Mystery Mansion to Android
28:43 – Lena reviews a braille talking watch
33:19 – Mark's Yale smart lock and parcel deliveries
40:19 – Scott on Siri Classic and iOS 27
51:37 – Sharon on inaccessible online ID checks
55:19 – Wrap up
Relevant Links
eufyMake E1 UV Printer: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1
FutureAids Talking Braille Watch: https://www.braillebookstore.com/Talking-Braille-Watch.1
ScribeMe: https://scribeme-ai.com

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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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Lumin, the voice-first email app built for blind users, is shutting down. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece look at why, then meet Eden Brown, who used vibe coding to build SpeakTab, an accessible music and guitar tab reader.
Lumin stops working on 1 December 2026, and the team says competition from ChatGPT and other big AI platforms made it impossible to sustain. Steven and Shaun replay part of their September chat with founder Sriram Ganesh and ask some hard questions. Did launching free make charging later impossible? How does a small specialist app get noticed when AI tools keep multiplying?
Eden Brown, a court reporter and guitarist, explains how she built SpeakTab with Codex. It reads MusicXML, Guitar Pro files and text tabs by beat and measure. It can also loop sections, slow the tempo for practice, write music from plain-language input and connect to an optional AI teacher. There's a Windows version and an Android build tested on the BrailleSense 7.
The conversation then turns to Braille. Eden argues that audio alone isn't literacy. Steven pushes back on advocacy that suggests Braille is the only route to success. They disagree on some points and agree on many more.
Before that, the hosts deal with an eero router outage that briefly felt like the end of the world, a viewer who noticed Steven wears the same blue shirt every day, and the question "are you two really blind?" To close, Steven and Shaun announce Good Vibes, their new podcast about the tools blind people are building with AI, and Steven reviews the retro Sony MDR-3R headphones.
Chapters
0:00 – Intro
0:17 – Shed heating, emergency prep and an eero outage
4:02 – The same blue shirt and "are you really blind?"
9:47 – Lumin shuts down
25:32 – Eden Brown and SpeakTab
34:41 – Braille, literacy and employment
45:35 – Getting SpeakTab and sending feedback
51:41 – Introducing the Good Vibes podcast
53:24 – Sony MDR-3R headphones review
Relevant Links
Double Tap: https://doubletaponair.com
Double Tap Live and Good Vibes: https://live.doubletaponair.com
SpeakTab: https://speaktab.pages.dev
SpeakTab on GitHub: https://github.com/edenkizerccr-coder/speaktab
Lumin shutdown notice: https://www.trylumin.ai
Sony MDR-3R announcement: https://sony.mediaroom.com/2026-11-05-Sony-Electronics-Introduces-MDR-3R-USB-C-R-1-Wired-Headphones,-a-Modern-Take-on-the-First-Walkman-R-Headphones-MDR-3

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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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HapWare's Aleye wristband, named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2026, turns smiles, waves and handshakes into vibrations that blind users can feel. CEO Jack Walters explains what has changed, along with pricing, pre-orders and privacy. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also take on the growing push to ban smart glasses.
The show starts with the other assistive tech on Time's list, the Mangoslab Nemonic Dot braille label printer. That leads to a moan about braille labelling. The electronic options, like the 6dot label maker, cost well over $1,000, and the old manual embossers take more hand strength than Steven has.
Steven was back on BBC In Touch, and he's tired of hearing that Meta smart glasses should be banned from pubs, pools and even whole countries. He points out that privacy and decency laws already cover misuse, as they did with phones. Shaun pushes back on calling the glasses life-changing, and they get into what actually counts as essential for blind people.
Jack Walters, CEO and co-founder of HapWare, tells Shaun how Aleye has grown beyond facial expressions. It now reads text and spots objects without being asked, such as the aisle you're standing in. It works with any Meta glasses or your phone camera, and you don't need Meta's live AI. Jack talks about learning the haptic patterns, how much beta testers wanted to know, and the first watch-sized standalone prototype.
Pre-orders are open until 31 December with a $59 deposit toward a $359 price. The first batch is 500 units, aimed at a launch around May 2027. The subscription is $20 a month or $199 a year. Jack also covers SOC 2 security, opting in to share data, and shipping to the UK, Canada and Australia after the US.
Chapters
0:00 – Intro: Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2026
1:52 – Nemonic Dot and the cost of braille labels
7:43 – BBC In Touch and the smart glasses ban debate
20:50 – Jack Walters from HapWare joins
23:45 – How Aleye turns visual cues into haptics
26:36 – Unprompted text and object detection
32:33 – Learning the haptic patterns
37:00 – Beta feedback and the first standalone prototype
41:29 – Time award impact, pre-orders, pricing and privacy
51:39 – Wrap-up and your feedback
Relevant Links
HapWare: https://hapware.com
HapWare Aleye pre-order: https://hapware.com/pre-order
Mangoslab Nemonic Dot: https://mangoslab.com/NEMONIC-DOT-printer
Aira: https://aira.io
Be My Eyes: https://www.bemyeyes.com

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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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TurnOver, a free and open source screen reader for the Mac, has Steven Scott and Shaun Preece rethinking the Mac. Glidance CEO Amos Miller also shares what more than 30 pilot users have learned from Glide in the real world, and when everyone else can expect theirs.
Listener Barry starts with his first 10 days on TurnOver. You can use NVDA or JAWS keys on a Mac, open its menu with Control Command Comma, and if TurnOver crashes, VoiceOver comes back on automatically. Steven explains why moving around with Tab and Shift Tab makes WhatsApp and Messages much quicker. He also worries that lots of open source forks could thin out the project, and he advises cautious users to wait while it's this early.
Amos Miller tells Shaun that Glide users walked their two and a half millionth step in mid-October. He's open about what still needs work: keeping a line on the sidewalk, walking along a road beside a grass verge, and lining up for road crossings. He also explains why new users should practise on a long, clear, straight stretch before taking Glide anywhere else.
The team has sped up work on the Glide agent, which adds scene description and lets you say "guide me to" the blue door, the bus stop or the person with the dog. Amos says the hardware design is now settled and explains why faster, smaller AI models matter for a physical guide.
Pre-orders won't ship before Christmas as planned. Amos expects the main software fixes around January or February, and a final round of hardware fixes pushes deliveries into early 2027. Meanwhile, more people are joining the pilot.
Chapters
0:00 – Welcome and an Al Pacino impression
5:28 – Barry tries TurnOver for Mac
9:04 – TurnOver, open source forks and the Apple question
20:54 – Amos Miller on Glide's real-world pilot
24:51 – Pilot lessons and current limitations
29:25 – The Glide agent: scene description and guided navigation
40:51 – Why the Glide hardware is settled
44:01 – How AI progress shaped Glide
47:27 – New release timeline and Amos's confidence
54:08 – Takeaways and tomorrow's HapWare interview
Relevant Links
Glidance: https://www.glidance.io
TurnOver: https://doll-eye.github.io/turnover-updates/
TurnOver on GitHub: https://github.com/TurnOver-For-Mac/turnover
HapWare: https://hapware.com

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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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Sam Seavey from The Blind Life joins Steven Scott and Shaun Preece to talk about making YouTube content with low vision, accessible Sony cameras, the Tovala smart oven, and whether it matters if you call yourself blind or low vision.
The show opens with Shaun's run of Suno songs. Then the hosts get into the news that Nvidia is investigating CEO Jensen Huang over his affair with a suspected Chinese spy, and what an AI bubble bursting could mean, including for Europe.
Sam Seavey has been one of the most requested guests, and he talks about his story: Stargardt's disease, life in Kentucky, and how videos about Android phones turned into The Blind Life. He records, edits and uploads everything himself. He explains how a fixed studio setup and the built-in screen readers on Sony Alpha cameras make that possible. He also reviews a 27-inch Android tablet and talks about the flood of new apps from AI-assisted developers.
The conversation then turns to labels. Sam explains why he calls himself blind, why so many people avoid using a cane, and how the low vision versus blind debate plays out inside the community. He also gives his hands-on take on the Tovala smart oven and how accessible it is.
To close, Steven and Shaun reflect on the conversation and look at dual monitor support coming to Windows Magnifier.
Chapters
0:00 – Intro and a weekend of Suno songs
3:06 – Nvidia, Jensen Huang and the AI bubble
10:26 – Sam Seavey joins Double Tap
13:25 – A 27-inch Android tablet
17:03 – AI-built apps and accessibility
22:03 – Who is Sam Seavey?
28:29 – Creating content solo and Sony's accessible cameras
36:16 – Advocacy, labels and using your cane
47:06 – The Tovala smart oven
52:13 – Wrap-up and Windows Magnifier updates
Relevant Links
The Blind Life: https://www.theblindlife.net
Tovala Accessibility: https://www.tovala.com/accessibility
Aira: https://aira.io
Suno: https://suno.com

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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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