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  <title>Merge Conflict 99: Inclusive App Design &amp; Seeing AI with Saqib Shaikh</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh, Team lead for Seeing AI, to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. As a blind person Saqib not only has first person experience with using software that is accessible, but also designing and working on inclusive software as he is the Team Lead for the Seeing AI mobile application. During our chat we discuss what developers can do inside of their application to add accessibility features and how they can test them using the built in operating systems. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.
Follow Us
Frank: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://praeclarum.org"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/praeclarum"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
James: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="https://montemagno.com"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno"&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;
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Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by &lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface"&gt;Adventure Face&lt;/a&gt;
⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&amp;amp;ls=1) ⭐⭐
SUPPORT US ON PATREON: &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm"&gt;patreon.com/mergeconflictfm&lt;/a&gt; Special Guest: Saqib Shaikh.
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    <![CDATA[<p>We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. As a blind person Saqib not only has first person experience with using software that is accessible, but also designing and working on inclusive software as he is the Team Lead for the Seeing AI mobile application. During our chat we discuss what developers can do inside of their application to add accessibility features and how they can test them using the built in operating systems. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventure Face</a></li>
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<p><strong>SUPPORT US ON PATREON</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">patreon.com/mergeconflictfm</a></p><p>Special Guest: Saqib Shaikh.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w22">Bitrise 2018</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w22">Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.

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</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mC-NUAmMk">Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0">How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/">Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment</a></li><li><a title="Custom Vision" rel="nofollow" href="https://customvision.ai/">Custom Vision</a></li><li><a title="Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jimbobbennett.io/identifying-my-daughters-toys-using-ai-part-5-plugin-for-on-device-models/">Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models</a></li><li><a title="jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision">jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We got to sit down with the legendary Saqib Shaikh to talk about creating inclusive software for everyone. As a blind person Saqib not only has first person experience with using software that is accessible, but also designing and working on inclusive software as he is the Team Lead for the Seeing AI mobile application. During our chat we discuss what developers can do inside of their application to add accessibility features and how they can test them using the built in operating systems. Saqib also shared insights into how Seeing AI was created and where it is going next.</p>

<h3>Follow Us</h3>

<ul>
<li>Frank: <a href="http://twitter.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://praeclarum.org" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/praeclarum" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>James: <a href="http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://montemagno.com" target="_blank">Blog</a>, <a href="http://github.com/jamesmontemagno" target="_blank">GitHub</a></li>
<li>Merge Conflict: <a href="http://twitter.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://mergeconflict.fm" target="_blank">Website</a></li>
<li>Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adventureface" target="_blank">Adventure Face</a></li>
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<p>⭐⭐ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/merge-conflict/id1133064277?mt=2&ls=1" rel="nofollow">Review Us</a> ⭐⭐</p>

<p><strong>SUPPORT US ON PATREON</strong>: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm" target="_blank">patreon.com/mergeconflictfm</a></p><p>Special Guest: Saqib Shaikh.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w22">Bitrise 2018</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bitrise.io/?utm_source=merge_conflict&amp;utm_medium=podcast_pre&amp;utm_campaign=w22">Bitrise automates build, test and deployment for Fox, InVision, Grindr, PagerDuty and the community of 40K+ developers. Craft powerful workflows with 170+ integrations and run the same config locally with our CLI. Sign up to Bitrise and deploy your app in minutes.

![Bitrise](https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/0/02d84890-e58d-43eb-ab4c-26bcc8524289/DtwpoiNR.png)</a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.syncfusion.com/maui-controls?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mergeconflict_maui_podcy23">Syncfusion</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.syncfusion.com/maui-controls?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=mergeconflict_maui_podcy23">Syncfusion offers the largest selection of controls for .NET MAUI, Xamarin, WPF, Windows Form, Win UI, Flutter, Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and more! Check out our components on NuGet and don’t forget to download their free e-books.
</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm">Support Merge Conflict</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mC-NUAmMk">Seeing AI 2016 Prototype - A Microsoft research project - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0">How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio - YouTube</a></li><li><a title="Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai/">Seeing AI | Talking camera app for those with a visual impairment</a></li><li><a title="Custom Vision" rel="nofollow" href="https://customvision.ai/">Custom Vision</a></li><li><a title="Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.jimbobbennett.io/identifying-my-daughters-toys-using-ai-part-5-plugin-for-on-device-models/">Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models</a></li><li><a title="jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision">jimbobbennett/Xam.Plugins.OnDeviceCustomVision: Plugin to allow custom vision models to be used from mobile devices</a></li></ul>]]>
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