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We continue the series about tools that make a blind employee productive in the workplace – this time looking at apps that use artificial intelligence (AI) to convert text and images into an audio format. There are many such apps on the market, ranging in price from free to approximately R1500. The apps usually take …
Those of you following this series of articles about tools to help a blind person be independently productive in the workplace may be asking how we engage with paper documents and physical objects we need to operate. The answer is quite simple – there’s an app for that! It’s called Be My Eyes, is free …
Back in the dim and distant past when I became blind, using a computer was a very different process from what it is now. Back then I had to use a special computer that barely resembled the computers my friends were using, and the amount I could do with it was limited. Nowadays I, and …
Many years ago I met an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his sight. His family were trying to find ways to help him begin picking up some of the things he’d loved doing before. Yet, each time I offered him an idea of some of the tools he might be able to use, his …
When is it okay to ask for help if you’re disabled, and when isn’t it? That’s today’s $60 million question. A few weeks ago I needed to extract information from 50 business cards. Yes, it would have been quicker, and easier, and more effective for me to ask a sighted person to help me. Instead …
So, here we are at blog 200 – if anyone had told me back in June 2015 that I would surpass the 200 blog point I’d probably have laughed at them. I kind of thought blogging was something I’d do every now and then when I had something important to share. And maybe that’s still …
Isn’t it funny that my first article on my last three overseas trips have been about in-flight entertainment and, more particularly, audio described movies on that in-flight entertainment – or the lack thereof. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the concept, audio description is a way that blind and visually impaired people can …
Isn’t life unbelievable? Mere weeks after I posted a lament that I couldn’t find an accessible word search, I found one, and a whole lot more great word and trivia games – all in one place! It happened like this: a blind friend of mine posted on Facebook that she was looking for a word …
In my last post I referred to a recent article from the Cape Argus newspaper. It’s relevant to this post as well – here’s a link to the article if you want to read it: http://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20180502/281814284483805 The Cape Argus article says that companies should have budget specifically for reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities. In …
“I can’t imagine any visually impaired person would prefer reading books using a computer voice rather than a human voice!” I’m probably misquoting the words but that was the sense of a comment I heard on one of the assistive technology podcasts I regularly listen to. My immediate response was to disagree vehemently… and then …