In collaboration with Jack Chen, Blind Abilities presents ExcelAbility. A collection of podcasts from Jack Chen’s ExcelAbility Team. ExcelAbility, empowering excellence and success for people with disabilities. to learn more about ExcelAbility and to connect with the team, check out WxcelAbility on the web at www.teamexcelability.com Jack Chen delivers talks and training for corporations and other organizations on empowering success for people...
Kosta and Ashley are the husband and wife team behind FlickType and was the team that brought us FleksyVO. They bring us this new app for the iPhone with a new commitment to the Blindness community and want to improve upon your user experience and make this app a keyboard you can use anywhere and in any app. Kosta tells us how he got involved with coding on the IOS platform back when the App Store first opened for business. Ashley tells us how...
Be My Eyes is the ever growing creation of Hans Wiberg. He envisioned a service that would help the Blind and Visually Impaired have a means of connecting with volunteers to assist with a task and thus becoming their eyes for a few minutes. This idea was launched 3 years ago and I had the privilege of interviewing Hans. Well, here we are 3 years later and Hans has brought the Be My Eyes App to the world. With over 64,000 users and an astonishing...
blind Abilities presents an update on all things Aira. Join Jeff and Pete with their guest, Greg Stilson, Director, Aira Product Management, as he joins the podcast once again, this time to share his thoughts around his recent career change to Aira. Hear Greg’s story of how he first learned of Aira, and how that grew into a passion for the product, and eventually his decision to come on board. Greg is joined by a cast of contributors who also...
Able Artist Foundation CEO and Founder Stephen Letnes joins us in the Blind Abilities studio to talk about the opportunities and discounts the Able Artist Foundation provides absolutely Free to it’s members. Stephen explains how easy it is to join and become a member and start receiving the discounts right away. He fills us in on another aspect of creating opportunities for a selected group to gain access to studio time, to work with...
George Wurtzel gives us a inside look and his philosophical approach to his involvement with the New Subaru TV commercial. We are including an audio described version of the audio from the Subaru commercial. George is George and nothing Hollywood about him as he explains the process and the experience of working on location and being part of this great commercial with such a great perspective on Blindness. George Talks about Wood Working for the...
Tony Giles has been to nearly all of the countries in the World and is setting out to Lebanon and Iraq to chalk up a few more to his continuing list of countries he has backpacked through. Totally Blind and a mind full of confidence and curiosity, Tony says that from a youngster he began traveling from school to home and to countries with common language and systems but then he wanted more challenges. From his studies and mostly his curiosity he...
Aira presents this Blind Abilities production of an interview with Sassy Outwater-Wright. Sassy is the Director of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. MABVI is the first business partner to join the new Aira Employer Network, whose objective is to increase BVI employment across the nation by allowing businesses to purchase and provide free access to Aira for employees. Listen as Sassy describes the enthusiasm she...
Monique Wollan joined us in the studio and talked about her journey from high school to college and the workplace. From one side of the Earth to the other, Monique traveled, lived and worked as a volunteer and an English teacher. After 10 years of being abroad Monique came to Minnesota and sought out State Services for the Blind as she wanted to get updated since technology had probably changed from a decade ago. Monique found her present job by...
Chris Danielsen fills us in on HR620, a proposed law that will chip away at the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA). Join Jessica Hodges and Jeff Thompson along with the National Federation of the Blind Public Relations Director Chris Danielsen and learn more about HR620. at dismantling the ADA. The House of Representatives will most likely be voting next week on a bill that will strip away civil rights of people with disabilities. HR 620...