iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

No longer need to be on 4g or Wi-Fi to use voice dictation: can be offline with no internet connection.

Correction: in the demo I say it just works automatically.  However, if your language supports offline voice dictation you may need to turn it on in Settings, General, Keyboard, Dictation on/off toggle.  I dont' know why, but my setting was on by default which according to some blogs will be turned off by default.

How to secure your notes produced by the default Notes app with either a password or finger print.

Demo of new 3d touch options for Settings, Weather, Compass, Health, App Store, and the iTunes Store.

Where to turn on Night Shift mode if you wish to reduce the amount of blue light to help you go to sleep.

In this demo, I take you through my home and discuss all the hardware/software that makes up my connected home.

For this demo, I was using watch OS 2.2, TV OS 9.2, and iOS 9.3.

In this demo, I go through the following:

In The Box:

Jabra Storm Bluetooth Headset

Micro USB cable

Extra ear bud and wind sock

Getting Started Guide

Main features:

9 hours of Talk Time

2 hours battery charge

Bluetooth and NFC pairing

Pair up to 8 Bluetooth devices, 2 activate at same time (only one activate at a time talking)

Win resistant (if to noisy, put on wind sock).

Ware on either ear

Very light and comfortable to use

Jabra  Assist app for tracking headset, BT pairing tips and battery status (battery status seems not to be accessible)

Physical description:

Arm with Mic and Answer/End button on end

Curved tight letter C to form body of headset that goes around ear

Most controls positioned towards end of boom and on to curved C

Answer/end button

On/off switch

Volume down/up

Micro UsB connector with protective flap

rotate ear piece to put in either ear

Voiced prompts:

Connected 

Battery low Redialling 

Disconnected 

To connect your headset, go to the Bluetooth menu on your phone and select it from the list 

To answer call, say Yes or No

Pairing:

When first used, is in paring mode,

Hold down Answer/End button for 3 second s pair

Functions:

Switch side switch up to turn on headset or down to turn off headset

Press Answer/End to hear Connected

Press Answer/End to answer an incoming call or say yes or No

Press Answer/End twice to reject an 

incoming call or say No

Press Answer/End twice to redial last call

Press Answer/End for 1 second to activate Siri

Press Answer/End for 3 seconds to put in pairing mode

Press Answer/End plus Volume Down to turn off low battery warning

Press volume down or up to adjust volume

Press volume Up/Down at same time to mute

Headset is capable of answering multiple calls and putting calls on hold

Points to consider:

low battery warning starts at 50 percent and announces every 10 minutes if not turned off

Turning off voiced low battery warning sometimes doesn’t seem too work

No charging voiced indication

Benefits:

light weight

Comfortable to ware

Can use in either ear

Have to active devices at the same time

9 hours talk time does last all day

voice prompts

Reasonably good volume

Clear when on phone call

In this demo I show you how to activate Voice Dictation from the Bluetooth Keyboard using the VoiceOver command VO+Dash (-) or on the Braille display input keyboard Space+dots 156: i.e. the VoiceOver two finger magic double tap.

The trick as I explain/demo is to make sure the on-screen keyboard is visible: with the Bluetooth keyboard just press the Eject key (top right of the keyboard) and on the Braille display input keyboard Space+dots 146.

If the keyboard is not on the screen, you'll just start/stop music playing for example.

With using the Braille display input keyboard, you can set the on-screen keyboard to be visible in Settings, General, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Braille, on-screen keyboard.

Not currently able to be activated on the iPad pro smart keyboard.

In this demo, I take you through 3 configuration tips suggested by a listener of my podcasts for new users or people that would like a suggested way of using the watch everyday.These tips are: turning Wake Screen Off, Setting Accessibility (Triple Click) short-cut to voiceOver to allow pressing the Digital Crown on the watch to toggle VoiceOver on/off, and how to turn on VoiceOver Digital Crown navigation.

Note - if you toggle VoiceOver off on the watch, this will turn off Digital Crown Navigation and you'll have to enable it again.

In this demo of the Ring Video Doorbell, I give you a thorough setup and run through of what the Ring Video Doorbell is, unboxing, Ring app setup to use the physical Ring Video Doorbell, attaching the Doorbell to the wall and completing the setup, using the Ring app, and final comments.I must say, this is one of the best home connected devices I have purchased yet: i.e. what did I do before I had this device smile.

As I use both of these Incase Arm Sport Bands, in this demo, I take you through a physical description of both of the iPod nano 7th generation and iPhone 6s  Arm Sport Bands available from Apple Stores or online.I just find these cases handy to use by getting your iPod nano or iPhone out of the way when exercising, gardening etc, and with the use of Bluetooth ear phones, you don't have any wires to worry about.