Top Tech Tidbits

Weekly access technology news.

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

The newest issue the moment it is out, read aloud or with VoiceOver and braille, with search across every issue. Made for blind and low-vision readers first. Top Tech Tidbits is a free weekly newsletter on access technology for people who are blind, low vision, deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, neurodivergent and/or disabled. Founded in 2004 and read by over 48,000 people each week, it gathers human-curated news, tips and how-tos every Thursday morning. The app opens the newest issue the moment you open it, and keeps recent issues, and every older issue you open, on your iPhone and iPad, so you can read with no connection. MADE FOR BLIND AND LOW-VISION READERS FIRST • Built for VoiceOver and braille: every section and tidbit is a heading, every control is named, and Apple's accessibility audit checks every main screen in every version. • Larger Text up to the largest sizes, Light and Dark, Bold Text, the Atkinson Hyperlegible font, high-contrast colors and wider line spacing. • Listen: your iPhone reads the issue aloud in the voice and speed you choose, keeps reading when the screen locks, skips a whole section at a time, and stops on a sleep timer. Listen to all your saved tidbits in a row. • "Hey Siri, read me the latest Top Tech Tidbits" and "Hey Siri, search Top Tech Tidbits". • Keyboard commands for a keyboard connected to your iPhone or iPad. EVERY ISSUE SINCE 2008 • Past Issues lists this year's issues, then every earlier year back to 2008. • Search every issue from 2008 to today, tidbit by tidbit, even with no connection, and find tidbits from the iPhone's own search. • Topic Alerts: follow words or names, such as JAWS or braille, and get an alert when a new issue mentions them. Your iPhone looks through the issue itself, so your topics never reach us; only your own Apple devices and your iCloud account have them. • Events lists the upcoming events from the issues, soonest first; add any of them to your calendar in two taps. • A link to an issue, in an email or a message, opens right in the app at the tidbit it points to. • Stories open in Reader View: just their words, without the website's menus and ads. • Translate an issue into another language with Apple's own translation, on your device (iOS 18 or later). KEEP, NOTE AND SHARE • Save tidbits for later, add your own notes, and highlight passages; VoiceOver and braille say where each highlight starts and ends. All of it follows you to your other Apple devices through your iCloud account, with your settings and the place you left each issue. • Share any tidbit with a link that opens the issue right at it, or share a whole issue as a link, a text file or an EPUB book for the Books app or a braille notetaker. • Send Top Tech Tidbits a story from any app's Share button. ALWAYS THE NEWEST • An optional notification each Thursday, normally at 6:00 AM Eastern, with a Listen button; the issue is already downloaded, ready to read. A 1 on the app's icon means a new issue you have not opened yet. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center button that starts Listen (iOS 18 or later), and shortcuts on the app's icon. • On iPad, the issue's sections or your saved tidbits sit beside the issue. PRIVACY No account, no advertising added by the app, and no tracking. To learn what readers find most useful the app keeps anonymous counts of which issues and tidbits are opened; you can turn them off in Settings. Details: https://toptechtidbits.com/app-privacy/ Questions and ideas: publisher@toptechtidbits.com

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The developer, Aaron Di Blasi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Browsing History
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

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The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More

  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Voice Control

    • Larger Text

    • Dark Interface

    • Differentiate Without Color Alone

    • Sufficient Contrast

    • Reduced Motion

Information

Seller
Aaron Di Blasi
Size
8 MB
Category
News
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
16+
  • 16+
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  • Contains
    Unrestricted Web Access
    Advertising
Copyright
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