Blind Abilities presents this iAccess Demo focussing on blocking those unwanted callers from ever calling you again. Pete reviews the process he used to block a number from which he received a computerized solicitation call on his iPhone. Check out this simple and quick process. k process. Thank you for listening . You can follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities On the web at www.BlindAbilities.com Send us an email Get the Free Blind Abilities App...
Kayla Weathers was the first totally Blind person to graduate from Dalton State Collegeand she is now looking forward to her Masters Degree and the challenges ahead of her. Her road to Dalton State was not actually a direct shot. Kayla had to make some decisions along the way to enhance her opportunities to succeed. Transitioning from High School to College is not always a smooth road and sometimes that road takes you out of your comfort zone...
Blind Abilities once again presents this interview with Suman Kanuganti, CEO of Aira, a visual interpreter for the blind. Aira is not only progressing with its product, but it is making a significant splash in the technology world. Aira recently won the innovative technology award at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in early January. Additionally, Aira is bolstering it’s standing in the blindness community with its major...
Jeff and Pete offer another follow up interview with guests they previously interviewed with today’s visit with Marco trujillo, a co-founder of the Sunu Band. the Sunu Band is a smart bracelet that serves many purposes: it offers sonar-based navigation to detect obstacles up to 15 feet away; it possesses the Sunu tag, a tile-like locator disk to help find your items, and a haptic watch to discretely tell the time. In addition, Marco...
Here are 4 Apps that we highly recommend for those studying, working on papers, doing math, and for accessing the printed word for reading. Power Thesaurus is a powerful accessible app that gives you so many options when the word you are thinking of is just not the right fit. Search and find hundreds of other opportune words. Dictionary by Farlex is so much more than just a great Dictionary App. You can completely set up the app the way you want...
Another iAccess Demo from the iAccess series. You can find all the iAccess Demos on the web or in the App just click on the Category tab and pick iAccess. Pete Lane walks us through the IOS Storage managing feature in settings and how you can manage your storage on your iDevice. You can find out what apps are using the most of your storage space and decide if you want to clean up your storage to make room for apps, books, music or other items...
Twitter is a social network where people can send status updates, links, photos and now videos to followers using their mobile smart phone. These messages are called, “Tweets,” and by using the Twitter App one can follow, share and connect up with companies, newspapers, schools, teachers, classmates and any one who is on Twitter. This podcast is for the person who is interested in getting started Tweeting. We demonstrate the Twitter App...
Blind Abilities presents this in depth follow up with Bin Liu and Arjun Mali, Co-founders of Imerciv Inc. and creators of the Buzz Clip. Join Jeff and Pete as they check in on this fascinating navigational device for the blind and visually impaired. This interview closes the loop from their initial chat back on January 17, 2016, which you can listen to here. Since then, the Buzz Clip has moved through its Indiegogo fund raiser campaign, and...
Blind Abilities visits the State Services for the Blind (SSB) in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jeff Thompson talks to the Transition Coordinator, Sheila Koenig about the Transition program for students age 14-21 transitioning from High School to College and the Workplace. Sheila talks about developing programs and creating opportunities through networking and partnerships across the state and Bridging all the entities to help the transition students...
The Free Braigo App in the App Store not only does quality OCR, the Brig App does some very interesting Object recognition, too. Jeff Thompson gives a quick demo of this new OCR app which actually does quite a good job reading the text and the accessibility is sweet. It would be nice to be able to open the created text in another app or copy the text to a word processing app but that doesn’t seem to be happening. You can save the photos here...