SVMUG Monthly Meeting July 21, 2025 Shelly Brisbin - Apple's Accessible World

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SVMUG Monthly Meeting July 21, 2025  Shelly Brisbin - Apple's Accessible World

Hello svmug members & friends! 

The Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group (svmug) upcoming meeting is Monday, July 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM Pacific Time. We will be meeting via Zoom. As always, our meetings are open to the public and free to attend. Please invite a friend!

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MEETING LINK for Virtual Attendance: 
If you are on the svmug mail list, you will receive a separate email with the Zoom link DIRECT information. 
Otherwise, the method of joining the SVMUG monthly meeting via Zoom is to use the connection information found on our website:

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MEETING TOPIC:  Apple's Accessible World
From Macs and phones to watches and even ginormous headsets, Apple products boast features that make them accessible to people with all kinds of disabilities. The company is celebrating its 40th year of accessibility, in 2025, and though there have been gaps in that timeline wide enough to drive a 27-inch iMac through, the arc of progress has continued upward. 
So what does accessibility mean for people who want to use Apple products? What are the greatest hits of the feature sets, and what are some things that could use a bit more thought? When your friend, or mom, or spouse asks, "can I use an iPhone, and how will my experience be,' what should you say? And if you don't know what to say, what's a good way of finding out? 
All this and more from Shelly Brisbin, journalist, podcaster, and author of “iOS Access for All, your Comprehensive Guide to Accessibility for iPhone and iPad”. 

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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:  Shelly Brisbin
Shelly Brisbin is a writer, editor and podcaster. She recently published the eighth edition of her book, iOS Access for All: Your Comprehensive Guide to Accessibility for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. By day, she is Web Editor and a producer for Texas Standard, a daily public radio news show. In 2019, Shelly produced the award-winning audio documentary, 36 Seconds that Changed Everything: How the iPhone Learned to Talk. She has contributed to many online publications, including AccessWorld and MacStories. She hosts podcasts, including Parallel, Lions, Towers & Shields, and Maccessibility Roundtable. She is a frequent guest on other tech and culture shows as well. Shelly’s career in tech journalism spans 30 years, 20 books, hundreds of articles for leading tech mags and sites, and several stints on the editorial staffs of publications and Web sites including MacUser Magazine, Powered, Inc. and Hoover’s. Her ex-podcasts include the award-winning Shelly’s Podcast and App Store Pundit, an iOS app review show. She lives in Austin, Texas.




“36 Seconds That Changed Everything - How the iPhone Learned to Talk”
Listen to how the world changed when the iPhone could speak to people. There is a transcript of this talk too.

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TIME SCHEDULE: 
6:30 PM - Virtual Doors open. Come early and socialize.
7:00 PM - Introduction & News
7:30 PM - Presentation
8:15 PM - Q&A - use the Chat feature on Zoom to submit questions.
8:30 PM - Raffle and end of meeting

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2025 CALENDAR:  via Zoom 
July 21 — Shelly Brisbin - Apple's Accessible World
August 18 — Jeff Gamet (The Context Machine) — online security and privacy
September 15 — Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken) — new Apple products?
October 20 — TBD
November 17 — Dave Ginsburg (In Touch With iOS) — iOS 26 features
December 15 — TBD

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DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? (Tech questions? Other?)
Do you have QUESTIONS to ask at the Q&A session during the meeting? During our Q&A time, please use the Chat feature on Zoom to submit questions.
Time permitting, we will do our best to provide answers to all.

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ABOUT SVMUG:
SVMUG (Silicon Valley Macintosh User Group)

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LOCAL APPLE/MAC USER GROUPS (some are more active than others):
Silicon Valley Mac User Group, at http://www.svmug.org
Diablo Valley Mac User Group, at http://www.dvmug.org
Stanford/Palo Alto MUG, at http://pa-smug.org 
San Leandro Mac User Group, at http://www.slmug.org 
Planet Mac User Group, at http://www.planetmug.org 

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