Musing about assistive tech for home, school, and employment
The show today is blindness related, and next weeks show will be on low vision.
Note - these are just recommendations and ideas, check at the end of the show notes where to get further assistance or information.
Thoughts on main stream and assistive tech for home as a person who is blind
Windows
Windows 11 PC desktop or laptop I7 with 16GB of RAM
NvDA, Narrator or JaWS
Mac
Mac mini
M2 MBP 14 Pro
VoiceOver
Other
Perkins Brailler
iPhone 14 Pro
Bluetooth keyboard
Smart phone or tablet stand
Printer/scanner
Shokz
Thoughts on assistive tech for school/further study as a person who is blind
Windows
Windows 11 PC laptop I7 with 16GB of RAM
JAWS for Windows or NVDA
Mac
M2 MBP 14 Pro
VoiceOver
Other
Perkins Brailler
Brailliant BI40X
Victor Reader Stream 3
iPhone 14 Pro
iPad
Bluetooth keyboard
Smart phone or tablet stand
Mini Guide
Printer/scanner
Shokz
Thoughts on assistive tech for employment as person who is blind
Windows
Windows 11 PC laptop I7 with 16GB of RAM
JAWS for Windows
Mac
M2 MBP 14 Pro
VoiceOver
Other
Perkins Brailler
Brailliant BI40X
Orcam
Victor Reader Stream 3
Braille embosser
iPhone 14 Pro
iPad
Bluetooth keyboard
Smart phone or tablet stand
Stella Trek
Mini Guide
Shokz
Where to get assistance on deciding best tech fit or funding.
VA AT Help Desk.
VA AT service.
VA Bursary awards
Job accesss
Etc
Call Vision Australia on 1300 847 466 or email info@visionaustralia.org
For many of the products, go to the VA Store online shop:
Https://shop.visionaustrlaia.org
Contact the Vision Store email visionstore@visionaustralia.org
A few more things.
The Weatherology app for iOS
Using Human speech to announce the Weather.
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/weatherology-weather-together/id557268375
Chat GPT comes to the Android Play Store
Actually I’m going to sneak Bing from Microsoft in here as it uses Chat GPT 4, and is of course on both Android and iOS
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.bing&hl=en≷=US
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