Join BVA’s VetTech Team this Wednesday, May 24, at 2:00pm Eastern Daylight Time as we welcome Dennis Moulton and Donny Osborn, Sales and Marketing Managers for Oregon-based Boundless Assistive Technology. The two company representatives will address the unparalleled selection of Assistive Technology and customer support options offered to the blind and low vision by Boundless. 

The Assistive Technology industry and its products can present users with life-transforming opportunities when the appropriate product is matched with appropriate support resources. For that reason, many programs of Blind Rehabilitation Service (BRS) of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rely on Boundless to deliver Assistive Technology to our veterans.

Do not miss this VetTech session! Attendees will receive: 

• An overview of Boundless Assistive Technologies.
• Information about Assistive Technology that veterans receive from Boundless.
• Customer support tools offered to Boundless clients.
• An overview of the new BAT mobile application, an iOS app that assists Boundless iPhone and iPad customers with device support and assistance.          

On Thursday, May 25, at the same 2:00pm hour and in an informal discussion format, VetTech Talk will address the use of Microsoft Teams on MacOS. With the Teams platform almost universally used now within VA and BVA for project communications, calendars, document collaboration, and meetings, it has become the next need-to-know solution just as Zoom was with the onset of the pandemic in 2020. Fortunately, Teams on MacOS is as easy to learn and use as it is on Windows.

This past week, with a Weekly Wednesday Webinar presentation from Jean-Paul dela Houssaye, founder and developer of WebAudio News, VetTech attendees learned of an innovative new mobile app that provides narrated short summaries of stories that users may be looking for. The app is a solution to the barriers imposed by the news media industry to restrict both content and access since never-ending feeds are incorporated into articles and intertwining opinion pieces. TechTalk the following day consisted of a discussion on the Assistive Technologies of interest to those in attendance. 

All VetTech webinars and talk sessions are currently open to everyone—blind and low vision veterans and nonveterans, family members, caregivers, blind rehabilitation specialists, and all other parties interested in assistive, adaptive, and accessible technology that can result in greater independence. Membership in BVA or attendance at previous sessions is not a pre-requisite to join VetTech or VetTech Talk sessions.

Can’t make it to a live session? No problem! VetTech is now available as a podcast on major platforms. Interested parties can listen on demand to missed Weekly Wednesday Webinars as well as original content published solely on the podcast by asking their smart speaker, Siri or Alexa, to “play the latest episode of the Blinded Veterans Association VetTech podcast.” They can also follow the channel via Apple Podcast, Google Play, and Amazon Music.

To enter both of the upcoming Wednesday and Thursday sessions using the same Zoom meeting credentials and link, click here. For additional information on the Wednesday sessions or VetTech Talk, click here.