I had a great conversation with fellow blind UA-camr, Juan Alcazar discussing filmmaking and accessibility in iPhone. That podcast is available at - anchor.fm/seedifferent
"there's never been a better time to be blind"... I say that all the time. I slowly lost my central focal vision (mac degen) and have been legally blind for about 3 years. my phone talks to me (too much actually), I have groceries delivered, I have uber, browser reading software, wifi and voice controlled stuff around my house, audio description on most streaming services, etc. I never did feel like 'woe is me'. too busy living.
My friend just had to switch from an old flip phone to a smartphone because they are phasing out that kind of phone and also switching out the 3G network phones. So it isn't always that simple.
For a blind dude, you’re kicking my ass when it comes to sense of style and video/camera shooting. The editing is super clean too. Keep it up with the the great content king. Glad there’s more and more assistive techniques coming out to help people with disabilities. Super helpful stuff, keep the vids rolling my guy
Hi James what a great video I have just been diagnosed as legally blind. I agree with you so much I am now an apple gal and loving it. Keep up the great work.
“Hey, I am a screen reader”. Wouldn’t that be interesting if VoiceOver suddenly said that? Although I’m not sure about what to think on the turning on part lol.
I actually set up a Samsung Galaxy tab a7 all by myself. I was able to turn on TalkBack with the two volume buttons, and I was able to set it up from there independently. Of course, I don’t know when android devices started being accessible out of the box, but I am beginning to think that it was in 2012 or 2013. Android may be late to the party when it comes to accessibility, but the accessibility is still there.
I went to college and stayed in the dormatory for disabled students and a blind guy lived in the same dormatory. I remember that he always used a smartphone and a computer with functions I did not quite understand. But I understood that they where good and he needed them. Fun fact There where only 2 minorities there and one was me so he could not see that I was a minority and looked completely different than most other students.
I love my smartphone - I have an iPhone and I use it all the time as a tool and for my entertainment - I don’t have a computer or tv - I just use my phone for everything. I’ve not heard of live text so I will check it out - I’ve been using the seeing AI app and it works quite well.
The “seeing AI” app is awesome!..n just wanna say like the people who say how can a blind person use a smartphone..like is it Kiera possible to have such a lack of common sense to not get tar not only can we use them that they actually help us so much n make things easier for us to do n allow us to be more independent!!!!!!!…BTW he new to ur channel so I will be going back n watching ur other videos n I’m so happy I found ur channel!!…love it!!!xx8 was jw ur from n what’s ur eye condition?..I live in Pennsylvania n I technically have ushers syndrome (USH2A)…which for those not familiar it’s hearing loss of all different degrees and retinitis pigmentosa also of different degrees of severity but personally hearing impaired since birth but not found till age 4 and have had hearing aids since with moderate/severe loss but has stayed steady my whole life n hearing aids are so technical now I have Bluetooth in them so no need for expensive air pods lol n my RP has been a slow progression where around age 12 I noticed my night vision waa declining but now at 39 I’m legally blind with no night vision color vision peripheral vision left n central vision is mostly just shapes n outlines of things n no detail but if close to my face I can still see pics n read with large text or magnifying/zoom but trying to learn as much as possible before I lose the bit of sight left but honestly these people who “troll” esp channels like u is insane to me..I mean u couldn’t scream louder that u have no life if u have the time to watch content that u don’t understand relate or share just so u can leave nasty comments?..wow!…I don’t have the time to watch my fav channels/podcasts/audio books n just go out for coffee with friends n do the stuff I enjoy let alone find the time to “troll” any one…just amazes me!! Lol. Great content n definitely a new subscriber for life!!…take care ignore the haters n know ur helping people like me.
Hi, just thought I would add some of my experiences.…. I have been playing rock music for around 30 years and about 15 years ago I suddenly went blind. at the time the phone I was using was just a basic Nokia 3310 and I’d only just started using a PC for recording music. I ended up using a Nokia N73 with a third-party screen reader as my main phone (this had been recommended to me by social workers) and it worked really well for me and I grew to love it, I particularly felt that my being blind was not a barrier to inputting text on this phone due to the fat that I seemed to be able to use the keypad on it as well as any sighted person. I also started using UA-cam, Wikipedia and various other Internet services which were available on this phone (I had not actually used the Internet much previously). around two years later I met and had an in-depth conversation with a blind musician I had known for some time, we exchanged notes on the technology we were using. He told me that he really liked the Nokia phone I was using and he had previously used one, but he had recently switched to the iPhone and said it was “massively superior”. I asked him about how tactile the keypad was and he replied with “it hasn’t got any keys but you don’t really need any” which made me rather dubious about it. anyway, at the end of the conversation we exchanged phone numbers and email addresses and that was that for the moment. A few weeks later I wanted to send him an attachment so I did so via email and it turned out that his email address was wrong so I sent him a text message and I got no reply back so after this I simply phoned him and it definitely appeared that he was having a lot of trouble actually using the phone - I didn’t push him on the subject because I didn’t want to upset him and I had no idea how to help him either so unfortunately the subject just ended up being dropped but as a result I immediately became wary of how usable the iPhone was for a blind person. then over the next 14 years all the websites that used to work on the N73 became more and more problematic, giving me security certificate errors and not working, one by one I lost them - UA-cam, Wikipedia, eventually Facebook. Around this point it seemed the only thing That would actually work was a basic Google search, And after that none of the results would load due to the security certificate errors. I kept soldiering on, making do without all the Internet services I had got used to before, then suddenly I had to upgrade my Sim contract. I was told that I had to at least use a 4G Sim card which meant that my Nokia wouldn’t work with it. I knew at this point that in theory an iPhone was one of my options but as mentioned above I was very sceptical on how successful I would be at using it, however it was clear I had no choice other than to actually try using an iPhone. So I took the plunge and bought one and yes, I found it a frustrating experience at first, there is no way on Earth that I can type at any speed whatsoever on a virtual keyboard. I downloaded a “T9” simulation of a keyboard but I find even that very difficult to use as it’s non-tactile and I have to listen to work out what key my fingers are on. The only way I can type at any speed is by using a proper keyboard via USB or Bluetooth. most of the time now though I use the voice to text “dictate” function, and then correct any mistakes by editing the text, moving the cursor with the standard iPhone screen gestures and “patching” things together using the virtual keyboard. I suppose my main gripe with the iPhone is that it has no keypad whatsoever. For me it would be perfect if it had a standard numeric pad like any older phone that can also be used for inputting text. I can say, however, for 10 years I had prejudice against the iPhone because it appeared that my friend was having so much trouble using it. I think a lot of my prejudice was down to lack of information where I live about all the different screen gestures available on the iPhone. My friend was totally sold on it because he believed he had almost total control of it through voice commands, which unfortunately I have found not to be true. I have found that the best way to work the iPhone is to learn a large number of the special VoiceOver gestures to navigate the screen and help you find things such as headings, links, buttons or text fields. so at this point I find it necessary to congratulate you on how good your videos are and I really like the spirit in which they are made. After becoming blind myself I have come across a massive amount of prejudice because amongst other things it takes me three minutes to get on stage with my guitar instead of three seconds and things like that. I honestly think the prejudice in the music circles is down to the fact that there’s far too many musicians trying to compete for opportunities to play at a very small, finite amount of places. It seems to lead to a lot of bitterness and petty squabbling. As for certain people finding it difficult to relate to blind people I am totally with you, surely all any sighted person needs to do to relate is to hold their eyes closed for awhile LOL.….
My mom became blind at the age 45 back then there was no smartphones. She doesn't like smartphone. Now she uses a Nokia phone for calls and 10 inch tablet for everything else.
Actually they think we drag sighted people around to read their comments to us *sigh* If their mind is blown by us using phones they ought to check out how I navigate while they check what I “see” through a simulation app. For me the world is a blur with my remaining sight deteriorating steadily over the last 5 years (text on screen held four inches from my nose used to be in sharp focus, now it’s severely smudged and bordering on totally illegible).
@@lynnenicholson6968 I'm legally blind and work at a University surrounded by incredibly clever people and even they don't get it. I remember about two years ago, overseeing an exam and an invigilator ran up to me as I scanned the exam paper with my phone. She was screaming at me like "You don't have permission to do that, who told you could do that." And I had to try to explain that I CO-WROTE THE DAMN PAPER!
Hi, to anyone who reads this I went completely blind about nine years ago due to detached retina's from my diabetes. Me and my wife have now been married 17 years. It is amazing the dumbest of dumbest questions she will get asked like you know with intimacy between each other they will literally ask how do you guys still do that she looks at them and says the same way we have throughout our entire marriage, he still has hands he can still feel he can still find things. Also the second point I want to point out I can get around my house just fine as long as nobody moves anything a.k.a. furniture and that's the other problem. They tend to think my poor wife works all day and then comes home and hast to feed me and tend to me and take care of all of my needs, then she hast to politely tell them I don't have to do a darn thing for my husband unless he dropped something and just simply can't find it now does my wife help me when I need it? Yes, I will never deny her that but then when she tells them, I cook, I do the dishes. I do all the laundry, including hers, because our, washer and dryer are downstairs and she has bad knees and plantar fasciitis in one of her feet and she does not need to be climbing up and down the stairs so I do all the laundry, mine and hers but like I said, it just simply amazes me, the sheer dumbness of certain basic questions. My wife has been asked, oh and yes, been using an iPhone or iPad since about 2015. Been thinking of switching to android just to try it but it has been my lifesaver helps me communicate and is my entertainment device.
Steve Evans here. My phone is one of the best tools I have to l1ive independently. I use Android and know it's ins and outs. I can't imagine living without it.
I was wondering since I want to be able to learn how to use tick-tock as a blind person, do you have a video showing how to do it it would really be nice to learn how to do it because I’m an Internet marketer. Thank you. Also being totally blind it would be nice to try this platform.
Keep iPhone the best for system accessibility implementation. In my country, Indonesia, many people blind use Android, it is still difficult to adapt & Android talkback is still less responsive than iPhone voiceovers, moreover, iPhone is still the best for ram usage management if you open any application 👍
That's actually just the built-in Magnifier App in iPhone but with the screen reader VoiceOver enabled to image describe the viewfinder. Seeing AI from Microsoft can achieve a similar result even without a screen reader on.
Voiceover’s sister. Hahahaha. It is android’s verssion of voiceover. Talk back is to voiceover. I am an iPhone user not android but I know my tech hahahaha.. so talk back is basically the version of voiceover android has talk back their version of voiceover a screen reader and voiceover is for the iPhone.
BORN LBVIP I CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH PHONES LAPTOP SPEAKERS. PEOPLE ASK HOW YOU DO ALL AND BLIND MEIDA IS OUR LIFE. WE BORN WITH A DEGREE LOL. BUT MEDIA HOW WE LIVE.THANKS FOR EDUCATION- ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES. SMART WATCH N I DID NOT GET ALONG 😊.
I had a great conversation with fellow blind UA-camr, Juan Alcazar discussing filmmaking and accessibility in iPhone. That podcast is available at - anchor.fm/seedifferent
"there's never been a better time to be blind"... I say that all the time. I slowly lost my central focal vision (mac degen) and have been legally blind for about 3 years. my phone talks to me (too much actually), I have groceries delivered, I have uber, browser reading software, wifi and voice controlled stuff around my house, audio description on most streaming services, etc.
I never did feel like 'woe is me'. too busy living.
My friend just had to switch from an old flip phone to a smartphone because they are phasing out that kind of phone and also switching out the 3G network phones. So it isn't always that simple.
For a blind dude, you’re kicking my ass when it comes to sense of style and video/camera shooting. The editing is super clean too. Keep it up with the the great content king. Glad there’s more and more assistive techniques coming out to help people with disabilities. Super helpful stuff, keep the vids rolling my guy
Thanks for the kind words! Keep at it yourself, practice makes us better!
Hi James, I am also blind and I currently have an iPhone 12 pro, but I am looking at the Galaxy S23ultra, do you think it would be any good?
Hi James what a great video I have just been diagnosed as legally blind. I agree with you so much I am now an apple gal and loving it. Keep up the great work.
Thank you!!
“Hey, I am a screen reader”. Wouldn’t that be interesting if VoiceOver suddenly said that? Although I’m not sure about what to think on the turning on part lol.
I actually set up a Samsung Galaxy tab a7 all by myself. I was able to turn on TalkBack with the two volume buttons, and I was able to set it up from there independently. Of course, I don’t know when android devices started being accessible out of the box, but I am beginning to think that it was in 2012 or 2013. Android may be late to the party when it comes to accessibility, but the accessibility is still there.
I went to college and stayed in the dormatory for disabled students and a blind guy lived in the same dormatory. I remember that he always used a smartphone and a computer with functions I did not quite understand. But I understood that they where good and he needed them. Fun fact There where only 2 minorities there and one was me so he could not see that I was a minority and looked completely different than most other students.
I love my smartphone - I have an iPhone and I use it all the time as a tool and for my entertainment - I don’t have a computer or tv - I just use my phone for everything.
I’ve not heard of live text so I will check it out - I’ve been using the seeing AI app and it works quite well.
The “seeing AI” app is awesome!..n just wanna say like the people who say how can a blind person use a smartphone..like is it Kiera possible to have such a lack of common sense to not get tar not only can we use them that they actually help us so much n make things easier for us to do n allow us to be more independent!!!!!!!…BTW he new to ur channel so I will be going back n watching ur other videos n I’m so happy I found ur channel!!…love it!!!xx8 was jw ur from n what’s ur eye condition?..I live in Pennsylvania n I technically have ushers syndrome (USH2A)…which for those not familiar it’s hearing loss of all different degrees and retinitis pigmentosa also of different degrees of severity but personally hearing impaired since birth but not found till age 4 and have had hearing aids since with moderate/severe loss but has stayed steady my whole life n hearing aids are so technical now I have Bluetooth in them so no need for expensive air pods lol n my RP has been a slow progression where around age 12 I noticed my night vision waa declining but now at 39 I’m legally blind with no night vision color vision peripheral vision left n central vision is mostly just shapes n outlines of things n no detail but if close to my face I can still see pics n read with large text or magnifying/zoom but trying to learn as much as possible before I lose the bit of sight left but honestly these people who “troll” esp channels like u is insane to me..I mean u couldn’t scream louder that u have no life if u have the time to watch content that u don’t understand relate or share just so u can leave nasty comments?..wow!…I don’t have the time to watch my fav channels/podcasts/audio books n just go out for coffee with friends n do the stuff I enjoy let alone find the time to “troll” any one…just amazes me!! Lol. Great content n definitely a new subscriber for life!!…take care ignore the haters n know ur helping people like me.
Hi, just thought I would add some of my experiences.…. I have been playing rock music for around 30 years and about 15 years ago I suddenly went blind. at the time the phone I was using was just a basic Nokia 3310 and I’d only just started using a PC for recording music. I ended up using a Nokia N73 with a third-party screen reader as my main phone (this had been recommended to me by social workers) and it worked really well for me and I grew to love it, I particularly felt that my being blind was not a barrier to inputting text on this phone due to the fat that I seemed to be able to use the keypad on it as well as any sighted person. I also started using UA-cam, Wikipedia and various other Internet services which were available on this phone (I had not actually used the Internet much previously). around two years later I met and had an in-depth conversation with a blind musician I had known for some time, we exchanged notes on the technology we were using. He told me that he really liked the Nokia phone I was using and he had previously used one, but he had recently switched to the iPhone and said it was “massively superior”. I asked him about how tactile the keypad was and he replied with “it hasn’t got any keys but you don’t really need any” which made me rather dubious about it. anyway, at the end of the conversation we exchanged phone numbers and email addresses and that was that for the moment. A few weeks later I wanted to send him an attachment so I did so via email and it turned out that his email address was wrong so I sent him a text message and I got no reply back so after this I simply phoned him and it definitely appeared that he was having a lot of trouble actually using the phone - I didn’t push him on the subject because I didn’t want to upset him and I had no idea how to help him either so unfortunately the subject just ended up being dropped but as a result I immediately became wary of how usable the iPhone was for a blind person. then over the next 14 years all the websites that used to work on the N73 became more and more problematic, giving me security certificate errors and not working, one by one I lost them - UA-cam, Wikipedia, eventually Facebook. Around this point it seemed the only thing That would actually work was a basic Google search, And after that none of the results would load due to the security certificate errors. I kept soldiering on, making do without all the Internet services I had got used to before, then suddenly I had to upgrade my Sim contract. I was told that I had to at least use a 4G Sim card which meant that my Nokia wouldn’t work with it. I knew at this point that in theory an iPhone was one of my options but as mentioned above I was very sceptical on how successful I would be at using it, however it was clear I had no choice other than to actually try using an iPhone. So I took the plunge and bought one and yes, I found it a frustrating experience at first, there is no way on Earth that I can type at any speed whatsoever on a virtual keyboard. I downloaded a “T9” simulation of a keyboard but I find even that very difficult to use as it’s non-tactile and I have to listen to work out what key my fingers are on. The only way I can type at any speed is by using a proper keyboard via USB or Bluetooth. most of the time now though I use the voice to text “dictate” function, and then correct any mistakes by editing the text, moving the cursor with the standard iPhone screen gestures and “patching” things together using the virtual keyboard. I suppose my main gripe with the iPhone is that it has no keypad whatsoever. For me it would be perfect if it had a standard numeric pad like any older phone that can also be used for inputting text. I can say, however, for 10 years I had prejudice against the iPhone because it appeared that my friend was having so much trouble using it. I think a lot of my prejudice was down to lack of information where I live about all the different screen gestures available on the iPhone. My friend was totally sold on it because he believed he had almost total control of it through voice commands, which unfortunately I have found not to be true. I have found that the best way to work the iPhone is to learn a large number of the special VoiceOver gestures to navigate the screen and help you find things such as headings, links, buttons or text fields. so at this point I find it necessary to congratulate you on how good your videos are and I really like the spirit in which they are made. After becoming blind myself I have come across a massive amount of prejudice because amongst other things it takes me three minutes to get on stage with my guitar instead of three seconds and things like that. I honestly think the prejudice in the music circles is down to the fact that there’s far too many musicians trying to compete for opportunities to play at a very small, finite amount of places. It seems to lead to a lot of bitterness and petty squabbling. As for certain people finding it difficult to relate to blind people I am totally with you, surely all any sighted person needs to do to relate is to hold their eyes closed for awhile LOL.….
I’m recently blind due to retinal detachment and I would be totally lost without my IPhone 6S. Still adjusting to this life tho.
My mom became blind at the age 45 back then there was no smartphones. She doesn't like smartphone. Now she uses a Nokia phone for calls and 10 inch tablet for everything else.
So cool! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love you videos! Can’t believe I just learned about you…feels like I missed out on so much!!
Hi Im also legally blind and sometimes is hard to explain to certain people that are kind of surprised that a blind person using their smartphone
The baffling thing about the ignorant Tik Tok comments is that they somehow expect you to read the comments whilst arguing that you can't read it. 🤔
Actually they think we drag sighted people around to read their comments to us *sigh*
If their mind is blown by us using phones they ought to check out how I navigate while they check what I “see” through a simulation app. For me the world is a blur with my remaining sight deteriorating steadily over the last 5 years (text on screen held four inches from my nose used to be in sharp focus, now it’s severely smudged and bordering on totally illegible).
@@lynnenicholson6968 I'm legally blind and work at a University surrounded by incredibly clever people and even they don't get it.
I remember about two years ago, overseeing an exam and an invigilator ran up to me as I scanned the exam paper with my phone.
She was screaming at me like "You don't have permission to do that, who told you could do that." And I had to try to explain that I CO-WROTE THE DAMN PAPER!
Hi, to anyone who reads this I went completely blind about nine years ago due to detached retina's from my diabetes. Me and my wife have now been married 17 years. It is amazing the dumbest of dumbest questions she will get asked like you know with intimacy between each other they will literally ask how do you guys still do that she looks at them and says the same way we have throughout our entire marriage, he still has hands he can still feel he can still find things. Also the second point I want to point out I can get around my house just fine as long as nobody moves anything a.k.a. furniture and that's the other problem. They tend to think my poor wife works all day and then comes home and hast to feed me and tend to me and take care of all of my needs, then she hast to politely tell them I don't have to do a darn thing for my husband unless he dropped something and just simply can't find it now does my wife help me when I need it? Yes, I will never deny her that but then when she tells them, I cook, I do the dishes. I do all the laundry, including hers, because our, washer and dryer are downstairs and she has bad knees and plantar fasciitis in one of her feet and she does not need to be climbing up and down the stairs so I do all the laundry, mine and hers but like I said, it just simply amazes me, the sheer dumbness of certain basic questions. My wife has been asked, oh and yes, been using an iPhone or iPad since about 2015. Been thinking of switching to android just to try it but it has been my lifesaver helps me communicate and is my entertainment device.
Steve Evans here. My phone is one of the best tools I have to l1ive independently. I use Android and know it's ins and outs. I can't imagine living without it.
You’re so high tech! How awesome that all this tech makes it “the best time to be blind”!
I was wondering since I want to be able to learn how to use tick-tock as a blind person, do you have a video showing how to do it it would really be nice to learn how to do it because I’m an Internet marketer. Thank you. Also being totally blind it would be nice to try this platform.
That’s a great idea for a video why wait when you can make the vid yourself
Keep iPhone the best for system accessibility implementation.
In my country, Indonesia, many people blind use Android, it is still difficult to adapt & Android talkback is still less responsive than iPhone voiceovers, moreover, iPhone is still the best for ram usage management if you open any application 👍
I just shared a new video all about some of the new useful accessibility features in iOS 15 - ua-cam.com/video/wwTsI_lVf58/v-deo.html
i have the same problem. I happy i found this channel;.
Welcome aboard!
Super interesting stuff!
I would choose android if they had zoom voice over smart invert text size and dark mode .
I'm amazed!
What app are you using @10:02
That's actually just the built-in Magnifier App in iPhone but with the screen reader VoiceOver enabled to image describe the viewfinder. Seeing AI from Microsoft can achieve a similar result even without a screen reader on.
What's is talk back?
TalkBack is a screenreader from Google built into Android, similar to VoiceOver on Apple devices.
Voiceover’s sister. Hahahaha. It is android’s verssion of voiceover. Talk back is to voiceover. I am an iPhone user not android but I know my tech hahahaha.. so talk back is basically the version of voiceover android has talk back their version of voiceover a screen reader and voiceover is for the iPhone.
BORN LBVIP I CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH
PHONES LAPTOP SPEAKERS.
PEOPLE ASK HOW YOU DO ALL AND BLIND MEIDA IS OUR LIFE.
WE BORN WITH A DEGREE LOL.
BUT MEDIA HOW WE LIVE.THANKS FOR EDUCATION- ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
SMART WATCH N I DID NOT GET ALONG 😊.
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