Pete Lane and Jeff, Thompson part of the Blind Abilities team toss out a few Podcasts that they listen to on a regular basis. This is not a complete list and there will be more to come. Podcasts mentioned You can open your Podcatcher of choice and search for the titles. For links and feeds to all the Podcasts Read iAccessVO, Making It Happen With VoiceOver Accessibility: A bi-weekly podcast hosted by Brian Fischler and Ed Plumacher, VoiceOver...
Blind Abilities presents the second installment in its series, Brad Snyder - On The Road To Rio, the 2016 Paralympics. In this episode, Brad shares more about his swimming training routine, his technology, and his passion around his commitment to excellence, not only in his sport, but with everything he does. Learn about his speaking techniques, his room mate and his imminent movie. Stay tuned for our next installment, a chat about the Bradley...
Blind Abilities offers another in its series From The Pocket, using thePocket app and Voice Dream Reader to share articles from the web. This article comes from medium.com Enjoy!
After making our Blind Abilities App even more accessible we want to showcase our blindAbilities.com web site and how responsive it works on your device. From a tablet to an iPhone the BlindAbilities.com web site fits your needs. from Transition age students to college and the workplace, to Living with blindness the BlindAbilities.com and the Blind Abilities app from the app store keeps you connected on the go. Thank you for listening! You can...
Blind Abilities is extremely proud to present this new series, Brad Snyder: On The road To Rio. This multi-part series delves into the life of Bradley Snyder, blinded in a tragic IED explosion in Afghanistan. Brad set his mind to compete in the Paralympics, and did so, winning two Gold and one Silver Medal precisely one year to the day following his injury in the 2012 London Paralympics. In this episode, we explore Brad's extreme training...
Lori Thompson returns to the Kitchen and gives a demonstration on how she organizes her canned goods, contacts, phone numbers and more by using a inexpensive device made by #Caliber. this accordion like case holds and indexes the PermaBraille index cards that she has Brailled her information upon. You can get the PermaBraille 3x5 index cards from the American Printing House web site by clicking here. You can find Expandable accordion style index...
Pete and Jeff, along with new team member, Jeff Young chat with Tomek Wardega, creator of the FopyDo scanning stand for the visually impaired. This tough, corrugated plastic stand works in conjunction with your favorite IOS OCR app to provide a sturdy and very effective scanning solution for your iDevice. Priced at only $12, FopyDo possesses many features which other stands don't offer. Join Blind Abilities for this 34 minute interview about...
From the Pocket is a series from Blind Abilities that utilizes 2 accessible apps, Pocket and Voice Dream Reader. Pocket extracts the text from a web article or other sources you choose and with the Voice Dream Reader app linked to Pocket, you can listen to articles on-the-go while off-line any time any place. Some really big news in the Blindness community is Facebook just launched the new feature that automatically gives an uploaded photo an...
Jeff Thompson gives us a demonstration of the Twitter App feature allowing a user to add a description to a photo they are posting from their device. This particular demonstration is for the iPhone using VoiceOver accessibility. Follow along tell your sighted friends to check it out and turn on this feature in their device. Follow us on Twitter @BlindAbilities Subscribe to our podcasts on the web at BlindAbilities.com and be sure to download the...
This is an article from Radio Talking Book which can be found on the web by clicking here.
Berkeley scientist designs tools for the visually impaired
By Berenice Freedome • Mar 2, 2016 Dr. Joshua Miele's morning commute to Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute takes about an hour—as long as no one gets in the way. In fact, most people move out of his way when they see him coming, because Miele is blind.
He’s one of about 140,000 blind...