‘Oh boy, yet another social media platform’, I hear you say and hear your VoiceOver announce out loud as you read this line. It is a fair point; it is yet another social media platform, albeit being audio only. However, it is so much more. Think of it like listening to a podcast live, and …
Does clubhouse exclude disabled people by design? A blind users measured response. Read More »
Adverts, got to love them, from those that tells me hot sexy singles are waiting to chat to me, hot singles in East London, really? To those trying to sell me the latest BMW,yeah, nothing wrong with that at all… Adverts are a nuisance, what makes it more annoying is that a lot of adverts …
Ahhhhhh Torrents. For a lot of people, it’s a pirate’s dream, get the latest movies, music and software for absolutely free! But because you’re on my blog and I don’t condone such naughty business… Torrents are also a great way to share files from one computer to another. 😉 It is especially great for downloading …
I’m often told that navigating in Linux isn’t the most straightforward of tasks, and typing out commands isn’t as easy as dragging and dropping. If only I could access my Raspberry Pi’s files on my Windows computer… Well good news you can! with a program like SAMBA, you can access your Raspberry Pi’s files from …
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Hello hello, and welcome to the ‘Is It Accessible?’ podcast. Hosted by me, Alex Man, this is an informal show where I ramble on about the tech and gadgets in my life that has helped me; and who knows, it may help you too! I like to keep my podcast interactive, so if you …
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Navigating the Raspberry Pi’s interface and knowing the commands can be quite daunting, it is very different to using arrows, hotkeys and mouse clicks on Windows; but no worries, I am here to hopefully clear it up! This guide is for the Raspberry Pi, but it should work for other Linux platforms. Basic Linux …
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A little disclaimer, I am no financial adviser, far from it, I only started buying stocks in the last few weeks. What I am ok at is predicting the current market, and this normally works well for me, please take what I say in the following post with a pinch of salt and do your …
Accessible Stocks & Shares for Blind and vision impaired Investors Read More »
Welcome to my very first post on all the fun things we are going to do with the Raspberry Pi! If you don’t know what a Raspberry Pi is, it’s basically a very small computer, about the size of a credit card that you can have on all the time as it consumes very little …
Accessible banking for visually impaired people is still relatively new, but a lot of our high street banks are embracing it, making the banking experience a lot more accessible, with banks such as RBS and Barclays providing their visually impaired customers with high-vis and tactile cards. Apart from the cards themselves, other features such as …
Financial Technology is Changing Banking for Visually Impaired People Read More »
A few months ago, I wrote a review for RSBC on the Lens App, a free OCR app from Microsoft that allows you to take a picture of text and have it read back. Despite the positive feedback and how it offers a free alternative to paid OCR apps, it was still rather fiddley and …