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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...

The MagSafe Battery Pack will not overheat your iPhone and will reverse charge with the iPhone when charging. The MagSafe Battery Pack may not be that mega charger that makes a hero out of itself when you forget to charge your iPhone the night before, however, using the MagSafe Battery Pack will ensure you have juice for an extended period of time. It just works and it works smart. Read more we wo...

In this  iPhone101 QuickByte  demonstration, Jeff Thompson shows us how to change how vvoiceover pronounces words that just don't sound right. You can also change the word completely, the choice is yours. Do you have an App or particular word or name that gets mis-pronounced by your VoiceOver voice? You can change that in just a few quick steps. Read more we would love to hear from you! Send us an...

In this  iPhone101 QuickByte  Jeff Thompson will show you how one can set up a Sleep Focus to ensure a peaceful night sleep and only Allowed Notifications will come through. And, setting up weekday and Weekend settings for the times of your choosing. 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 some feedback at 612-367-6093

Part 6 Adding a brand new Gmail account to the iPhone, going into the  Google.com  web site, choosing an email address, and adding it to the phone. Enjoy this peppy and informative presentation in which Blind Abilities offers another educational gem in its iPhone 101 library of demonstrations.   Step-by-Step Process: Read more we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities...

Parts 4 and 5 introduction to the process of deleting an email account from an iOS device. Specifically, Part 4: Using his Gmail accounts as an example, going into the Settings App and deleting it. 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 some feedback at 612-367-6093

Part 3: The Mail Preview feature in iOS. The Mail Preview allows us to preview - read - a portion of an email while it is unopened in your Inbox. The portion of the email that can be previewed can range from none and up to five lines and is set by you in your Settings App. This can save you time in processing your emails and make you more efficient in using your Mail App. In fact, you may even be...

This new iPhone101 series provides five individual demonstrations aimed at giving you the tools to effectively manage your email in an organized and efficient manner. Pete Lane walks us through each step of these processes in a snappy and thorough presentation.  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 some feedback at 612...

Welcome to another  iPhone101 QuickByte  from  Blind Abilities . In this QuickByte, Jeff Thompson shows how to turn on Emergency Bypass for those specific  contacts for specific moments when you need that call or text. 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 some feedback at 612-367-6093