Let’s get some blindness related talk going here.
So just for the hell of it, in order,
· Cane, Dog, None, or Other?
· Preferred Mobile and Computer OS and Screen Readers?
· Braille or Not and for what if yes?
I’ll start, cane, android and windows, talkback and NVDA, yes I use braille screen input, or a braille display for almost everything text entry wise and for checking spelling, along with some reading though not as much as I could.
Old conversation but am going to play anyway.
Most used to least used from left to right
When I am working I work with computers of multiple types. If I do not keep in practice with all of them I lose track of the keybard shortcuts and gestures I need to do things with them.
· Cane, Dog, None, or Other? Cane · Preferred Mobile and Computer OS and Screen Readers? Windows 11 / NVDA, Android 13 / Talkback · Braille or Not and for what if yes? I use a braille display, mainly to check spelling.
Cane. Which, now that I think about it, most sighted people I know think is stupid. They all seem to think that there’s tiny portable magic radar, sonar, infrared, VR stuff that’s widely available and actually works.
iPad/iOS/voiceover. Switched from Windows 20 years ago, when I could still see you just fine, and have since developed and abiding hatred of Microsoft and Windows, so I can’t say what I use now has anything to do with a preference for Apple device accessibility features, per se.
Over the course of my life I have had the chance to support a lot of tech, including a couple of medical prototypes that were supposed to have that kind of magic. Yet after my vision loss it was what amounted to a long white stick that had the most beneficial affects on my life. Sometimes low tech is the best tech.