Talking Tech 8th August 2023

08/08/2023 14 min
Talking Tech 8th August 2023

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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=USSupport this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.