iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

In this demo, I show you the new updated gestures which became available for the Google Home Mini towards the end of 2017: Pause/Play music, and stop an alarm or timer.

The Remember This skill for the Amazon Echo is an excellent list generator for doing up my weekly shopping list.

I use it as a throw away weekly list - adding items through out the week and then using this list to check my final shopping list that I use when I go shopping.

Disabling and re-enabling the skill after the weekly shopping, gives me a fresh new list to start the next week.

Deleting items by number in the list (if not required) I find is a lot more effective rather than trying to get the voice recognition to recognise the item I wish to delete.

Very easy skill to use: aDD item, Delete item, List, Help, and stop or Goodbye.

In this demo, I take you through the installation and setup of the Sensibo device with its companion app (Sensibo).

I take you through using the Sensibo app to control my home air conditioner, and control the AC from my Google Home and the Google Assistant app running on my iPhone 8 plus.

Just a note - the Sensibo Sky will only work with AC systems that are controlled via a physical remote.

In the demo, I say that the Mode, Fan, and Temp popups are not accesible with VoiceOver on iOS.  However, as of Jan 17, I have learned that if you use the sensibo website

http://www.sensibo.com

and login with your account email and password, you can use the web controls on the screen to access the popup buttons for Mode, Fan, and Temp.

Here is a link to the updated podcast on using the web interface:

http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com/e/an-update-demo-of-using-the-sensibo-sky-device-via-its-web-interface-offering-better-accessible-controls/

In this demo, I take you through the following:

adding and checking items on the Shopping List using Google Home,

Adding items from the Google Assistant app running on my iPhone, and

deleting, editing and adding items to the Shopping list using http://shoppinglist.google.com

In all cases for Google Home, Google Assistant, and the Shopping List website, I had previously logged in to my Google Account.

Just a final note, you'll need to download the Google Assistant app from the iOS App Store to use it on the iPhone:

In this demo, I take you through the Seeing AI app interface with its channels (options) of Short Text (fast auto OCR), Document (OCR), Product (bar code), Person (person ID), Currency (identification), Scene Recognition, Colour (identification), Hand Writing (recognition), and Light (detection).

Explore the Quick (context sensitive) Help for each channel, and play a sample of the Video Help (again context specific).

Whilst exploring the Main Menu of the app, I give a brief demo of how the Face recognition works.

I then demo two of my most used channels within the Seeing AI app: Product (bar code scanning) and Short Text) which assists me everyday in preparing and cooking meals for my family.

Finally complete the demo with a demo of 3D touch and launching user 4 preset functions: eg I demo launching directly in to the app and use Light detection.

An absolutely outstanding app

***The latest update of this app as of the 22nd of Dec 2017 has broken accessibility for VoiceOver users.***

In this demo, I demonstrated the Little Ben app for vibrating or playing a sound (if Mute is off within Control Centre) for giving you the minutes elapsed,  hours elapsed or on the hour chime.

I find using the app with mute off is great for minute timing when cooking or when using the hourly chime just to keep track of the time.

When I am recording my Talking Tech radio program for Vision Australia, I turn mute on and use the minute vibration mode to keep where we are up to in the show for each topic we discuss.

An excellent app and its free smile.

In this demo I take you through a physical description of the iPhone X, using the new gestures for Home, App Switcher, Control Centre, and Notifications Centre, checking out the new status line layout, a go through of reachability, discuss the new use of the Side Button for Triple Click Accessibility Short-Cut/Siri etc, setting up and using Face ID, using Braille Screen Input, using the Belkin Wireless Charger, using the 29W USBC fast charger to get 50% charge within 30 minutes, what is in the box, and a bit of a sound demo of playing music between the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone X.