iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

One of those products you’ve heard about, but when you decide to get it, it blows your socks off. Mini Guide Sonar holder for your cane: adjustable wing nut for the actual cane or handle plus lever to adjust position of Mini Guide bloody amazing smile -  https://shop.visionaustralia.org/miniguide-holder.html

Hable One Quick demo

Quick physical whip around:

Front middle slide on/off switch.

Back middle USBC port.

Back left lanyard.

Top 8 Braille keys.

Bottom 4 rubber feet at each corner.

Paring to smart phone:

Turn Hable one on.

Smart phone Settings, Bluetooth, and select Hable one.

Once paired, unit will connect automatically when turned on.

Holding the unit:

Hold unit away from you with the keys facing out, so that the USBC port is facing down, and the on/off switch is facing up.

Key/dot  positions:

Left column of 3 keys bottom to top -  dots 1, 2, and 3.

Right column of 3 keys bottom to top 4, 5, and 6.

Left long key: dot 7.

Right long key - dot 8.

Handy starting commands for navigation

Left/Right to previous  or next item:

Hold 7 whilst  pressing  8 move right.

Hold 8 whilst pressing 7 move left.

Select an item:

Press 78.

Home command:

Hold  h (125) until vibration.

Previous/next Home screen:

Hold o (135) until vibration move to next Home Screen.

Hold ow contraction  (236) until vibration move to previous Home Screen.

Silence  speech output temporarily:

Hold a (1) until vibration.

App switcher:

Hold 23 until vibration.

Control Centre:

Hold j (245) until vibration.

Notifications Centre:

Hold n (1345) until vibration.

Answer/Hangup and start/stop media:

Hold 3 until vibration to either answer/hang up call.

Hold p (1234) until vibration to start/stop media (music, audio book etc).

Siri.

Hold d (124) until vibration.

Status menu, and Back/Escape: 

Hold s (234) until vibration.

Hold b (12) until vibration for back/escape.

As there is no delete key it is 7, Space bar 8 is space, and the Enter key is 18 when Brailling in to a text  entry area.

A bit of a chat around the Ultra Cane and Sonar Glasses which I'm having a look at in the next few weeks, and as usual, some other stuff smile.

In this weeks tech chat, we mainly focus on the "why would you want to use the Vision Pro in its current state", some things that would be nice for Apple to focus on, and other stuff smile.

Some fun outdoor demos to give you a few ideas for enjoying being out and about.

And of course, all available fromt eh Vision Australia Vision Store.

Have a listen, as I don't want to spoil the fun smile.

Loving the new upgrade to the Brailliant BIX40 which allows you to access books in my case from the Vision Australia library and enjoy daisy books, brf books (such as the Sydney Morning Herald), and my favourite podcast Talking Tech smile.

In this demo, I give you an overview of the Monarch hardware, and some of the software features.

To find out all of the products described in this webinar for accessing the Printed Word (i.e. Optical Character Recognition OCR or Magnification)

If you are in Australia, go to:

https://shop.visionaustralia.org

or in New Zealand:

https://shop.visionaustralia.org.nz

Enjoy

Lots of great things to say about Android, some things I wish iOS would do that Android does, and some comments about overall accessibility of Android at least from a screen readers point of view.

Enjoy.

David