Jeff Thompson talks with Lucy Macintosh and Raquel Gomez about Accessible Formats, Textbooks and resources that are available to high school and college students. From places to get books such as BookShare, Learning Ally, BARD or accessing them through an app such as the KNFB Reader. Using the Disabilities Office and how to stay ahead of the game and how to keep as many tools for success in your toolbox so you can become independent from...
Blind Abilities Presents: A new series entitled Creating A Podcast. Pete Lane introduces, the first part in a multi-part series on the process of creating a podcast, from the initial Skype recording, editing and applying effects, working with split tracks, creating an Intro, Outro and inserting transitions. This is a detailed and tightly edited podcast intended for both beginners and others who might want to pick up a tip or two. This initial...
Jeff Thompson interviews the BeSpecular App developers celebrating the new launch in the app Store and the Google Play store. Jeff and Pete also test the app and the additional functions on the new release. Follow @BeSpecular and download the App today!
Jeff Thompson interviews two passionate Directors, Wilma and Peggy, representing Camp Abilities St. Louis. Check out this great Summer Sports Camp for blind children, in St. Louis www.CampAbilities-StLouis.org or in 25 other locations, on their web site: www.CampAbilities.org
Pete Lane introduces a new BlindAbilities Team member, Cheryl spencer. Cheryl brings her NFB Convention Blog entitled: spencer’s spotlight. Check out Cheryl’s recurring article in the monthly digital newsletter, The Blind Perspective, at TheblindPerspective.org Stay tuned for more from Cheryl and her Convention Blog, and good luck to Rus Davis as he competes in the NFB Convention Talent Show! Happy July 4th Holiday to all in the US! Here are...
The Bespecular App just hit the App Store and we are excited for you to give it a try. We have been Beta testing the Bespecular App and now you can find out for yourself how well the team has put together this app for the Blind to use their camera and find out the info through a team of sighted volunteers describing the images you captured. Go to the App Store and download Bespecular today! Thank you for listening! You can follow us on Twitter...
Sign up for the Blind Abilities Newsletter on BlindAbilities.com or fill out your name and email at our Blind Abilities booth #41 at the ACB convention in Minneapolis July 1 through July 6 and you will have a chance to win the Shure MV88 Microphone. This podcast that follows the announcement of this opportunity was previously released and we decided to include it with this wonderful chance to win. #ACB16 #NFB16
Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson asked members of the community what they liked about the award winning and life changing technology of the KNFB App. With such a positive response we thought we had to share. Join members of the Jacksonville iAccess group and members of the blind abilities community as Pete and Jeff talk KNFB Reader. You can get the KNFB Reader from the App Store for IOS and in the Google Play for Android. Follow Blind Abilities on...
Blind Abilities Presents: Christopher Venter, A.K.A. Blind Scooter Guy. Christopher journeyed from Cape Town South Africa to Dublin Ireland on a scooter motorcycle, one of the smaller styles of cycles and traveled over 20,000 miles just to get a Guinness beer, well, kind of. Christopher contracted a virus that eventually took his eyesight. And Over the next two years Christopher did not stop pursuing the life he always dreamed of... being a...
@MoeLucie brings us a new series called Career Quickies where she gives us tips on a wide range of job and employment topics. The first in the series is, "The Cover Letter." Join Lucie and give her feedback on the Career Quickies, suggestions are welcomed and we hope you gain from the series and thanks for listening. Be sure to check out the College category on the BlindAbilities.com web site and download the Blind Abilities app from the App...