[Electronics-Talk] Introduction

Thu Nov 30 16:34:37 UTC 2017

My family and I are you smart phone. I use voice over on my iPhone to do everything that you just described in your message and I love it. Hope to hear from you soon.

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> On Nov 30, 2017, at 11:16 AM, Arlene via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "roanna bacchus via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
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>> 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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