Adult Content

Android Jobs, and ducks with TV

 

Before we get started, a quick note that today’s episode may contain adult content, and listener discretion is advised.

 

Introduction

 

We start out this episode by briefly addressing the unrest and turbulence in our country at this time.

 

Damashe and Michael both encourage all listeners who are protesting to be as Peaceful as you can.

 

Google Events

 

Damashe asks Michael if we have any updates on the Android 11 event yet.

 

Michael however has seen 12 different talks that will be shared when it does happen.

 

Michael and Damashe admit accessibility is directly addressed in that list of topics, however As we have mentioned in the past accessibility can be as simple as being able to use your product right out of the box.

 

This therefore causes accessibility to not be addressed directly in some instances, which is a good thing because it’s a win, win for everybody.

 

Linked In on Android

 

Damashe asks Michael what Linkedin has done to improve the experience for talkback users on Android.

 

Starting out, Michael shares how facebook is currently laid out, and the fact that you have an action button directly after the contents of each of your newsfeed stories that you can tap on in order to take action on that story. Like, React, share, etc.

 

This Inspires Michael to go on a quick side note sharing how you can edit what ads you’re shown on facebook by telling facebook to show you these ads anymore or not to show from this Advertiser anymore. 

 

Linkedin used to have a like post, comment on post, and share post button directly after each of the posts in your Linked In news feed that a talkback user would have had to flick past in order to get to the next story.

 

While Michael was sharing his robinhood link on Linkedin he decided to check out linkedin because he hadn’t visited the linkedin app in a while.

 

And that’s when he discovered that you can quickly flick through all of your news items in the app, and if you wanted to react to the post or share or select one of the hashtags all you needed to do was access your local context menu, tap on actions, and then several actions would become available for you as a TalkBack user. Michael also mentioned how he’s set up a custom shortcut reducing the amount of TAPS one needs to take in order to access actions for each post. 

 

Damashe mentions he needs to invest more of his social media time on LinkedIn, because he also has noticed accessibility Improvement on the iPhone. This transition into a conversation about audibles Improvement to the layout of their app and how you have different ways of viewing your library as well as the fact they have Implemented voiceover rotor actions for taking action on a book that may be selected.

 

How do you feel about social media?

 

Damashe asks Michael how he’s feeling today about social media in general now and where he’s spending a majority of his time at now.

 

That social media and general is a time waste, he explains his morning routine at this time and how for a very brief. Of course he did suspend his Facebook account.

 

Write the second he’s spending a lot of time on Facebook and wants to change that So he’s starting to spend more time on Twitter. With the changes that LinkedIn has made however, because it won’t take multiple flicks to quickly get through to the next item in the news feed, chances are that he will start spending more time over there. 

 

Jobs side note

 

Michael put in 5 applications this week at different Companies,