Full Transcript Podcast Summary: Sarah Caltieri jumped across the pond to join Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio and talk about her new song, Yesterdays, her songs in general and about bringing awareness to Blindness. Her songs give us a glimpse of her life experiences and the journey into Blindness as well. Photo of Sarah Caltieri Sarah and Jeff dive into a variety of topics including, is societies limited...
Podcast Summary: The 3 Mac-a-teers, Ok, Jeff and those two PC users, talk Mac, Mac, Mini and a Pod from last weeks Apple Unleashed event. They then trip the light fantastic on tech tidbits and news from around the Blindness Sphere. Serina, Jesse and Jeff bring their workplace experiences, their passions and assistive technology know-how to the table and dig down into some really interesting perspectives. Join the Tech Abilities crew in the...
Full Transcript Podcast Summary: Qudsiya Naqui has experienced losing sight, transitioning from reading to listening to audio, learning about the White Cane and advocating all along the way. Qudsiya is aa Lawyer and reflects back about her journey, her advocates, her way of choosing a college and how Tandem Biking and Running has opened up communities where she is thriving. Qudsiya has a lot to say about her experience transitioning into...
Podcast Summary: Today’s episode of the ever-growing iPhone101 series from Blind Abilities focuses on exactly that, the Voice Memos app. This app has become significantly more sophisticated and robust in recent years, including with the advent of iOS 15. However, the interface and operation still remains very simple, quick and convenient. You can capture your thoughts, your guitar riffs, melodies, that phone number or...
Podcast Summary: Have you ever spent time listening to music, only to run across a song where you just can’t recall its title, or the artist who wrote or performed it? Blind Abilities presents a demonstration of the music recognition feature in iOS which is a handy and really cool feature that allows you to quickly identify songs and artists that you hear around you, and even songs that are playing on your own phone or...
Podcast Summary: The iPhone101 Series is growing and now we are adding Quick Bytes to the ever growing series. In this Quick Byte we have 3 quick demos broking into Chapters: Searching in Settings. 00:43Back Tap – Double and Triple Tap. 02:16Key Clicks, Lock Sound, System Haptics. 05:12 Searching in Settings. SettingsSearch Text Field You can search for a topic when you open Settings and type in your query and with the results...
Full Transcript Podcast Summary: Believe You Can, the virtual talent show and fundraiser sponsored by the Philadelphia Keystone chapter of the National Federation of the Blind is this Saturday, October 16 at 7pm. Simon who serves as the chapter’s secretary talks with hosts, Lisa Bryant, David Goldstein and Stacie Leap along with chapter president Harriet Go, who is also one of this year’s performers. It’s a great...
Show Summary: Adding to our iPhone101 series, this demonstration explores VoiceOver Recognition and the 3 major features and the settings you want to be familiar with when using the iPhone or iPad VoiceOver accessibility feature. The Rotor and the Quick Settings is demonstrated as well as having access to the VoiceOver Recognition settings can be very beneficial “on the fly”. Here is what Apple has to say about VoiceOver Recognition:...
Show Summary: The Tech Abilities Studio was organized prepared and then, we went off the rails. Even the best of planning did not stop the spontaneity from over-riding the intent of an outline. Is this a bad thing? You be the judge. You can listen using the chapter feature if your player has it, or just take it all in one big binge. Serina, Raqi, Jesse and Jeff jump the tracks and go in depth on unintended segues that are thought...
Show Summary: Blind Abilities is committed to meeting your needs as a listener and a dedicated iDevice user. as a part of our effort to do so, we are fine-tuning our focus on our iPhone 101 series towards addressing real life situations in which you might apply some of the features and techniques we present. We want to help you understand how we might use them in our day to day routines, in hopes that you too will be able to enhance your...