Sometimes you come across a person who is doing some remarkable work and facing challenges that would throw a person off coarse, Antyenette Walker, AKA Young Ant, is taking on all her challenges and enhancing her opportunities by doing the tough work of adjustment to blindness. Her words, lyrics and music is her way of coping and sharing her story while lifting up the spirits of her listeners and supporters she calls Team Ant. Young Ant talks...
Blind Abilities presents this new “Mini Series” An In depth Look at Aira, The Product and the Company. In this the first installment, they chat with Chancey Fleet, an Assistive Technology Professional living in New York City. Chancey offers her candid and informative thoughts about the product: its many strengths and shares suggestions for how the product can be enhanced in the future. Chancey is an excellent guest, and you must tune in to...
Sally Abrams has been volunteering as a transcriber/reader at State Services for the Blind for over 11 years.. In a recently published article, Sally writes about how she has found many rewards in her work as well as the “nuggets” of information that she has gained from reading hundreds of hours of textbooks, articles and material in audio making the books accessible to the visually impaired and to anyone having difficulty accessing the...
Blind Abilities presents a brand new series: Introducing iPhone 101. In this new series, Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane will introduce listeners to the world of the iPhone. While we know there are several different iDevices, including iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch, they’re all similar and possess so many of the same attributes. So, we’re going to keep it simple, and refer to all of those devices as iPhone! For those who haven’t yet taken the...
The InstaCart App is a Grocery service app that may be available to you and you can order groceries and have them delivered right to your door. The accessible app lets you choose from stores in your zip code and lets you choose the items you want and then just place your order. A qualified shopper will seek out the grocery list and deliver them to your door! You can even be in contact with the shopper as they shop. Just in case the item you...
Blind Abilities presents Joyce Gugel, Founder and President of Beyond Blind, a unique organization for the blind located in Palm Beach County, in south Florida, in the U. S. Joyce discusses her life as a visually impaired woman and her creation of Beyond Blind, with its numerous mainstream programs and activities for blind members. Programs include: Sightless Chefs culinary program, the blind Shot golfers program, Bodies Beyond Blindness...
Nest makes a Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm that talks right out of the box! With an accessible app from Nest one can be informed of the location and type of detection by voice from the Nest Protect. Multiple devices will relay the alarm/notification as well as sending you a message on your smart phone. The Nest app connects with the iPhone, iPad, apple Watch and the Apple TV. Two choices of Nest protect are available. Battery or Hard wired....
Lois Strachan: A Different Way of Seeing: A Blind Woman’s Journey of Living an “Ordinary” Life in an Extraordinary Way. Lois Strachan is an inspirational speaker who guides people to see that they can use their strengths and their passions to influence them through challenges and arrive at success. When Lois became blind at the age of 21 she seized the opportunity of achieving a childhood dream… and has never looked back! Join Jeff...
Join Nick as he talks with Nicci Mariconi, a professor at the University of Phoenix. Nicci was visually impaired when she took her college classes on campus in Illinois and applied to the University of Phoenix and landed her dream job. Nicci lost the rest of her remaining sight and continues today to teach and fulfill her goal of teaching American history. We hope you enjoy and thanks for listening. You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities...
Pete and Jeff talk to Michael Schwartz about passions, regaining the skills and confidence to keep the passion alive and making the blindness issue just an inconvenience. The Wandering Film Maker, the Visual Story Teller and the creator of The Palette Project is Michael Schwartz. Michael is visually impaired and continues to follow his calling as a Visual Story Teller. After losing most of his sight, Michael has continued as the Wandering film...