[Electronics-Talk] Introduction

[Arlene]

Hi, Roanna, welcome to this group. You'll really learn a whole lot here, and 
sometimes it could be a real mixture of things, from what items are the most 
accessible to who takes to certain items  and  others would rather the other 
type of items, very much in the same sort of catagory and both accessible in 
their own way. Just like in everything, everyone has their own ways of doing 
things, and they have a set items they make use of. Listening to all of it 
is quite interesting. One set of items would be, for example smart phones 
and the feature phones, the flip phones and there are some bar type phones 
with buttons both accessible in their own ways. I think a majority of 
visually impaired individuals have smart phones, just as everyone else does, 
and included in these phones is a screen reader. So one can navigate on the 
screen as anyone else can. In some cases it makes other items in the house 
more accessible, such as having things like an instapot, also some 
crockpots, working different things in one's house whether it be your 
thermostat or lights and other things. Doing email, going on the internet, 
listening to books, music and the radio on the phone, apps to be able to 
connect with someone to find out a description of an item that you need a 
bit more information about, other useful apps for scanning text, bar codes, 
gps, color identifier, and so much more. Then there's those feature phones 
that are flip phones or bar type phones, the phones that have the buttons, 
that have the text to speech included in the phone, which isn't exactly like 
the screen reading software in a smart phone, but makes it possible to 
navigate the phone with the buttons and many of these phones do talk 
everything in the menues in the phone. Personally for me, what I use is some 
of the different feature phones that I'm very confortable with. As I'm able 
too I'll get more of these type of phones so I could see what the phones are 
capable of and see what types of things that I or anyone else can do with 
these phones. Of course, as in everything certain phones are better than 
others or rightfully so a bit better because the aspects of the phone may be 
a bit more advanced. Such as seeing a difference in how a number of these 
phones work and what they had in cluded 3 years ago, verses now presently. I 
think I'm going to do some audio recordings about these phones. While 
there's so much more you can do with a smart phone, with these feature 
phones, Besides navigating with the phone for the settings, to type in new 
contacts, writing a text message, I could use the calculater, I could use 
the calendar on some of them, I go on the internet with them, some of the 
phones are a bit better than other phones. 2 of the phones that are better 
for going on the internet that are quite new phones, probably as new as from 
last year are the sim mobile for at&t and the alcatel for t-mobile. Not 
everyone is as crazy as I am, I like to explore and try everything I can do 
with it, including going on the internet, which a number of people wouldn't 
even think about doing or wouldn't care about, and possibly wouldn't be 
interested in using something like the calculator. It's just enough phone 
for many individuals to be able to have a phone to use as  just a phone, 
from easily dialing a phone number to navigating the phone with the text to 
speech included in the phone, to be able to write a text message, go into 
your contacts to either look up a phone number which takes no time or when 
you're going to type in a new contact or write a text message. As far as 
smart phones we have a modo g android phone, which neither one of us have 
really got the knack of using and we really want to learn. We're going to 
get the android book from national braille press which should help in our 
learning, tremendously. One of these days when we could afford it we'd like 
to get i phones. We have looked at both the i phones and  the android phones 
at the store, with the sales person putting the screen reader on. One time 
we saw that little i phone the s e I think it's called, which seemed pretty 
easy to navigate, and the phone was a really nice size being small and being 
small enough to put in a pocket. Everyone differs to much of an extent of 
how they use anything for that matter. For a smart phone we would want to 
have the scanning apps, the color identifier, possibly the gps, one  of 
those apps in case we needed something described, for us not so much for 
reading books, and listening to the radio or tv, but that's some of what we 
would use. Having the internet and email handy on the smart phones is great 
as well. Hopefully in time we'll get use to the smart phones, but I'll never 
stop using the feature phones because they are just as usefull in their 
ownway. It's amazing, the topic of the phones is such a big topic. Then 
there's other things we write about here, sharing information about what 
appliances are more accessible, such as Roger recently told us about his 
stove and dryer that are both quite accessible, which was good for us to 
know about since we need a new stove. we write about our experiences with 
some of the tvs that have the speech included in them, also share ideas 
about how to do certain things, whatever comes up for someone, even if it's 
something like finding the best ways for labeling something, which a number 
of us have our own individual ways of doing things, that one could figure 
out and hear what is the closest way they would feel confortable in doing 
whatever it is. As I said we all vary in either our skill or what we're 
plain confortable with, and that goes for anything, with so many 
possibilities. Feel welcome to asking any questions you have, and share any 
experiences you have had.
 Arlene

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 1:22 PM
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Introduction


> Dear Members,
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> My name is Roanna Bacchus, and I am currently seeking employment that will 
> allow me to utilize my braille skills and degree.  I love learning about 
> accessible electronics that the blind can use on their own.  I joined this 
> list so I can share my experiences using accessible electronics.
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