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 [email protected]

 

For many of the products, go to the VA Store online shop:

 

Https://shop.visionaustrlaia.org

 

Contact the Vision Store email [email protected] 

 

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&gl=US

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