Blind Insights - Artificial Sight: Profound Accessible Technology (Special Guest Saqib Shaikh)

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Saqib Shaikh is a software engineer at Microsoft and project lead of Seeing AI, a mobile application that narrates the world. Through various technologies and 'channels' visually impaired users can navigate their surroundings or gain an augmented understanding of the world around them autonomously. David is an avid user of this application and of course a perfect test subject, and together with Tim, talk to Saqib about the inspirations and challenges of creating software that is at the bleeding edge of accessibility. If you have any thoughts, questions, or want to present your argument, contact us and send us an audio clip at timwhiffen@auscastnetwork.com Want to work with David? Get in contact. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.