They just do not see past the initial screen Whenever I listen to a radio show or podcast and one of these self-proclaimed experts offers a comment about a synapptic phone all I want to do is groan as they always seem to have a downer on this application that has won so many awards […]
Label Printing Made Easy
Are you looking for an easy way to print labels? If so you will be pleased to discover that Taira Technology have just released version 2 of their Label Printer software. Blind and visually impaired people often struggle to print address labels reliably and consistently. When using label templates for example, the addresses are often […]
Every Story tells a Picture
Audio description I recently heard that one company that offers respite to blind people do not think it’s necessary to setup the televisions in the guest rooms with audio description, I find this strange but they say it’s because nobody has requested it. My answer to that would be that not everybody is aware of […]
One Fork at a Time
When what you are eating is sight unseen to you There is one thing I am really uncomfortable with and that is eating in public and when I do I prefer to eat with close family and friends as they realise the difficulties in eating when you cannot see the food or the plate in […]
Turning a Blind Eye
Turn a blind eye just over 2 years ago I was talking to my consultant in the ophthalmology department and she suggested that I went for a blood test at my local surgery because of the tablets I was taking. Obviously the facial expression I gave transmitted to her that I really did not want […]
Blindshell Classic 2 An Intelligent Phone
<html> A Simply Classic Phone I have been usingthe Blindshell Classi2 for afew months now and find it a vast improvement on the original phone which was very easy to use as a blind person. I reviewed that phone in July 2021. A lot of my comments in this previous post are still valid so […]
BlindSpeak:Is It Always Understood
There are some words that we use within the blind community that do not make any sense outside of that sphere. Accessible is one such word. Accessible When used within the blind community accessible relates to technology which has some form of text-to-speech system built into its interface. We regard smart phones and tablets as […]
Blind Banking
Banking whilst you are blind is becoming ever more difficult as branches are closing all over the United Kingdom. This means there has to be more use made of Internet banking, telephone banking, and cash machines. As I have mentioned in a previous article when I opened a new bank account recently there was a […]
Reasonable Adjustment or Acceptable Ignorance
Yesterday I found out that my energy supplier did not offer accessible home display units when they installed smart metres and I was advised to contact customer support. I did so and the person in customer service claimed to have never heard of accessible home display units and on asking a colleague he said that […]
Blindshell Classic, a Smart-ish phone
– I had been using a Synapptic smart phone since 2015 when I lost most of my site but in the summer of 2020 I decided to use a Blindshell Classic mobile phone as my main phone and use my Synapptic phone as a tablet There were many reasons for this though the prime reason […]