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!
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...
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...
Jeff Thompson gives a brief demonstration of the Moetive App from Shure giving some demonstrations using the MV-88 Stereo Lightning Port microphone from Shure. The new line of microphone and interface units called the Moetive series is Shure’s response to the popularity of mobile convenience and Shure did not drop their level of quality. The MV-88 is a rugged solidly built metal constructed piece of kit. ShurePlus MOTIV App Every operation...
Jeff and Pete announce the release of a brand new Blind Abilities App which offers a single Podcast feed from BlindAbilities.com This eighteen minute chat covers the objective, features, development and accessibility of this simple new App. They also discuss their efforts to create Podcasts with Chapter markers using a new software program which allows some podcast apps to offer this simplified navigation feature. The new Blind Abilities app is...
Jeff and Pete chat with Lisa Salinger, widely known across the blindness community, along with Dan Roberts, Director of MDSupport.org about the LowVizGuide. The Guide is a convenient navigational tool which uses indoor way-finding technology to assist attendees at blindness conventions. This 30 minute conversation covers the gammit from a review of updates and enhancements to the app, to imaginative ideas about possibilities for the app. This...