Maria Johnson a.k.a. Girl Gone Blind is a mom, a blogger, radio host, fitness instructor, health and wellness advocate, podcaster, and most of all... Maria shares her experiences and assists others going through the turnstiles entering the journey of Blindness. From learning about her LHON eye condition, losing most of her usable sight, struggling with the acceptance of her vision loss and continuing her fitness instruction classes, Maria talks...
Pete Lane adds this addendum to his post dated May 2, 2017 in which he described his process for unsubscribing to unwanted junk emails. A listener, Mandy Van Cleave wrote in to apprise us of a new button added to incoming emails in iOS 10, that allows us to quickly unsubscribe with the tap of a button. Pete quickly walks us through that process in this 4-minute demo. Special thanks to Mandy for being so attentive and we encourage others to share...
Woodworking for the Blind Sixth Annual Summer Workshop Now Two Separate Sessions All Members Invited Advanced Woodworking Session Monday, August 21, thru Saturday August 26, 2017 Welcoming Dinner Monday evening August 21 Woodworking Fundamentals Session Saturday, August 26, thru August 31, 2017 Welcoming Dinner Saturday evening August 26 Each Session Has 4 Full Days of Meetings, Discussions, Instructions, Technique Sharing, Meals and...
Erich Manser is an Accessibility Researcher for IBM, an Explorer for Aira, has held the World Record for a BVI in Triathlon and has participated in the Boston Marathon 8 times to date. His latest Boston marathon was enhanced by a Visual Interpreter device from Aira. Aira is a revolutionary device that allows the user, the explorer, to connect up with an Agent who can see what the user is looking at. The Aira glasses have a camera that allows the...
Listen to Drew Weber's audio overview of the newly released HookeAudio Verse Bluetooth Binaural Microphone. Read Weber's text review below: Find more info about the Hooke Verse at the Hooke Audio Website. To the Hooke Audio team. I first learned of the Hooke Verse, in Summer 2015, from an article at the Apple Vis website, written by one of it's developers Anthony Mattana. I honestly can't tell you guys how proud I am for your perseverance, for...
Pete Lane continues the new Blind Abilities series: iPhone 101 with an introduction to Voiceover gestures. In this episode, Pete walks through the very basic settings needed for new users to operate their iPhones using Voiceover, the built-in screen reader that comes on board all Apple products. Pete describes how to turn Voiceover on and off, using three different methods: first, by walking us through the Settings app, flicking down to General,...
Prizmo Go was created for everybody and with VoiceOver Accessibility, Prizmo Go is another good tool for the BVI community to put in their toolbox. With the ability to share the text captured and with pretty good recognition, Prizmo Go ranks up there with Office Lens, another recently released OCR app with VoiceOver Accessibility working well. The capturing of text and the reading is remarkable. Prizmo Go has 2 in-app upgrades available. Export...
Blind Abilities adds to their iAccess Demo series with this brief demo on how to quickly unsubscribe from spam and junk marketing emails that we all hate to receive on our iDevices. Join Pete Lane as he walks us through his process, quickly and efficiently! 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 on the App Store.
John Olson from 3D Photo Works gives us an overview of the tactile replicas of some of the finest art in the world. 3E Photo Works goal is to provide the blind with access to art and photography at every museum, every science center and every cultural institution, first in this country and then beyond. Since the invention of Braille nearly 200 years ago, advocates have worked continuously to improve access to the printed word for the blind....
Blind Diabetes Independence Day A 30-minute (plus Q&A) training workshop on how to use the blind-friendly Prodigy Voice Blood Glucose Meter. Blind diabetics, blindness social workers, CDEs, and those who cannot be there in person may join the meeting via conference call by dialing 641-715-0861 and entering the pin number 886466 The BID Group, and BID Group Friends, proclaim May 19th to be Blind Diabetes Independence Day! Bob Bourdette,...