Blind Abilities

Olga Mahler joins Jeff Thompson from Warsaw, Poland where she and her husband are helping accommodate visually Blind and Visually Impaired refugees from Ukraine with shelter, assistance, a bed and working with a Swedish non-profit A Demand for Action.  Without knowing how she would be able to help, Olga and her family packed up some supplies and flew into Poland with determination and a will to he...

Our guest on Blind Abilities today is Javier Pita, CEO of NaviLens Corp. Join Jeff and Pete as they delve deeply into the latest updates of the NaviLens App with Javier, and chat about many of the other useful features of this remarkable App which could have a profound impact on how we navigate both outdoors and indoors as well. Read More we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@Bl...

Karthik Kannan joins Jeff Thompson in the  Blind Abilities  Studio in this informative episode about the  Envision Glasses  and the Envision AI App. Team Envision is proudly demonstrating the  Envision Glasses  at  CSUN  at booth 1011 and you can schedule an appointment and get your personal demonstration with hands-on with the  Envision Glasses . Stay tuned for upcoming announcements that Team En...

Serina Gilbert, Callie Gray and Jeff Thompson meet up in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk Tech Tidbits and news from around the Blindness community and some Pop Culture that enhances the daily grind. Is Apple's Peek Performance just taking a peek at what performances are to come? Tricky little play on words there, Tim Cook.  Uber ratings that the drivers give you are now exposed. Check out the d...

Joining us on Blind Abilities is the owner of a voice that many of us will recognize from reading our favorite  Talking Book  selections from  BARD  or other  NLS  platforms: none other than Ray Foushee. Ray has been a Talking Book narrator at the  American Printing House for the Blind (APH),  for almost forty years and has read more than 1000 titles in virtually every genre, ranging from True Cri...

Blind Abilities presents Micheal Hudson, Director of the Museum for the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). The APH Museum, located in Louisville, Kentucky, comprises more than 3,000 Square feet of space and multiple exhibits which present the history of blindness, and the role that the APH played in that history. Jeff Thompson and Pete Lane sit down with Micheal Hudson, an articulate and...

Brendan Lewis joins Jeff Thompson in the  Blind Abilities  Studio and gives an overview of the  RealSAM Pocket .  The  RealSAM Pocket  is the easy to use Mobile Phone, especially designed for people with Sight Loss. RealSAM Pocket  is able to Make Calls, Read Messages, listen to Books or Newspapers and get Assistance just by Using your Voice. No need to learn a complicated touch screen or struggle...

In this  iPhone101/QuickByte  from  Blind Abilities , Jeff Thompson takes us through the Punctuation System Groups and Creating Custom Groups. You can determine if Voiceover reads aloud Some, none or All punctuation. Imagine your email reading back like this: Hi comma Everybody comma How are you all question mark I am fine period  This can be annoying unless you are proofreading a paper, legal doc...

Members of the  Pennsylvania Association of Blind Students (PABS)  gathered in the  Blind Abilities  Studio to announce the 2 nd  Annual virtual Piano Bar Fundraising event. Happening on Wednesday, February 16 from 6 PM Eastern, 5 PM Central and 3 PM Pacific Time. This 3 hour virtual event will showcase college students playing piano and singing songs and engaging with the participants. President...

The Tech Abilities crew gathered in the Blind Abilities Studio to cover news and tech tidbits from a Blindness perspective. Serina, Callie and Jeff are joined with Jesse and they cover a lot of topics from the new Gucci Bag for the Air Pod Max Headphones for only $980 Microsoft 11, Aira and the Puppy Bowl Webcast, getting a pet dog as a Blind person, Instagram and Accessibility and much more.  Mar...

Join Pete Lane for this short  iPhone101  demonstration of this available and time-saving new feature in iOS. Be sure to check out the entire iPhone  101/QuickByte  series on  Blind Abilities . Apple  has made available a new feature in the Messages App which puts all links into a single, sequential list. So if you are looking for a photo, video, article, Tweet, song link ore pretty much any other...

Sree Roy is an Engineer by education, training and profession. Immigrating to the US in 1976 at the age of seven. Sree's vision loss began in his late 30's, well after he had completed college and entered into a high-tech career as an engineer specializing in call center support and technology.  In this intriguing interview, Sree discusses his journey through vision loss, how he learned from his b...

The Tech Abilities crew slid into the Blind Abilities Studio to bring you another episode of news and happenings from of course, a Blindness perspective. Covid Test and N95 masks are available and so a set of MagSafe chargers from Mophie on the Apple Store. Did you know Siri can fast forward and bring up Audio Description on Apple TV? Yup, and by the way, Happy B-Day Serina! Orcam wins at CES, the...

Zack Afridi  joins Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk about  Vision Buddy , a revolutionary device to assist people with Low Vision.  Vision Buddy  is the world's first ultra-simple TV watching system designed to assist the visually impaired in performing day to day tasks. Read more we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities.com or give us a call and l...

In the Tech Abilities Studio Serina and Jeff are joined by Callie Gray straight out of Miami. The crew starts the year talking about eh latest gadgets and news released from the Holiday season and even have a few items they acquired. Tre jumps in and lets Jeff and Marlon have a little piece of his mind. From MagSafe Battery Pack to an affordable headset that sounds great to some new Aftershocks, t...

Christine Malec and JJ Hunt from the Talk Description To Me Podcast, join Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio to talk Blind Hockey. Coming off a week of Talking Hockey Christine and JJ are ready to hit the rink and talk Blind Hockey specifically. Jeff Thompson is a member of the Minnesota Wild Blind Hockey Team and has played alongside Team USA in various events. Explanation of the game, t...

Do you sometimes receive texts in your iOS Messages App where you are among one or more others in a group of recipients? Have you wondered how to create such a group to make it faster and easier to share messages with your friends and family? Pete will show you how to do just that. Read more we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities.com or give us a call and leave us...

In this  iPhone101 Quickbyte , Pete Lane takes us through the Messages App and shows how to Pin a person or group to the top of the messages list. When using the iOS Messages App your list can become cluttered with individuals and groups which makes  it difficult to locate someone in your ever-growing list of recipients. A convenient way to prioritize this list is with the use of the "Pinning" fea...

In this iPhone101 Quickbyte , Pete Lane takes us through the Messages App and shows how to speed up a YouTube Video if you so desire.   Are you wondering why you can't speed up the playback speed of a YouTube video like you can with one of your audio books? Well you can, and it's simple and fast.    Here's how to do it:   Read more we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@BlindAbil...

Joining Lisa Bryant and Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities Studio is En-Vision America's Director of Marketing, Jenna Reed. En-Vision America has just celebrated their 25 th  anniversary and has not stopped one bit. Announcing a new partnership with the  Hy-Vee  chain and adding 25 languages to the line of ScriptAbility Solutions available at a growing number of pharmacies across the United Stat...

From the Blind Abilities studio from the Tech Abilities Team, Marlon and Jeff bring you a little something of r you and well wishes to all. Happy Holidays and may you all have a safe and wonderful New Year! The Tech Abilities Team Read more Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities.com or give us a call and leave us some feedback at 612-367-6093 we would love to hear from you!

Blind Abilities presents another installment in its iPhone 101 series with this review of several popular video and audio streaming Apps, in which we explore  ways to set up methods to reduce the amount of your cellular data you use while streaming or downloading their products. We already know that it is more cost effective to stream audio and video services while connected to your Home WiFi netw...

Itto Outini's self-determination has carried her from halfway around the World to living her dream. From a journey less desired, her constant  zest for knowledge and learning proved to be the ticket out of her circumstances and onto her realizing her dream of working for the United Nations and becoming an activist for human rights and an advocate for accessibility.  Read more we would love to hear...

The  Ayes  team joined Jeff Thompson in the Blind Abilities studio to talk about Ayes, an Artificial intelligence company form to assist the blind and visually impaired in navigating intersections using traffic signal imagery and algorithmic computation and relaying the data to the user through audio and haptic feedback Five months ago,  Ayes  began working on algorithms and an app called, "OKO"....

In this  iPhone101/QuickByte  demonstration from  Blind Abilities , Jeff Thompson will Add the Battery Widget to the Today View and then move the Battery widget to where he wants it located on the screen. With a few swipes and flicks, you can pick the widget, choose the size of the widget and move the widget to the location that suits your needs. Let's start on the home screen: Read more we would...