Today’s user story comes to us from Sherree Dixon in Enid, Oklahoma. It’s read by Becca Proskin, Marketing Specialist here at Ai Squared.
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In our last ZoomText Tech Support tip, we showed you how to save your ZoomText configuration. This week, Tony shows you how to use Application Settings, a very powerful feature that can allow you to customize ZoomText to load your favorite settings on the fly for applications you use the most.
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Previously I’ve talked about how I still enjoy photography despite being visually impaired. But an SLR can be a lot to carry around, and picture-taking opportunities can come along when you least expect them. One solution is to use a cell phone camera. In the past, cell phone cameras have been truly terrible, and in any event, most cell phones are not very accessible to low vision people. The iPhone has changed all of this.
The camera on the iPhone is not going to put the SLR makers out of business, but it is a passable alternative to a point-and-shoot camera when you are taking pictures outside. Also, the iPhone is incredibly accessible to low vision users, with both speech and magnification features available out of the box. You can use the iPhone with its Zoom magnification mode turned on at any time, including when it is being used to take pictures. Therefore, you can zoom in on the screen as much as you want using the Zoom accessibility feature to see just what you are shooting without having to use the camera app’s digital zoom feature. This is good because the digital zoom feature on a camera will drastically reduce image quality and resolution. Because the iPhone lets you use the Zoom accessibility tool to take pictures, you can take high quality pictures and still see what you are photographing.
The picture above was taken on an iPhone camera by totally blind photographer Jason Castonguay, and shows the kind of quality you can get from the iPhone outdoors.
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Three out of my six siblings have been diagnosed with juvenile macular dystrophy at different times during the last 15 years. More specifically, I was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, the most common form of juvenile macular dystrophy. Stargardt disease is an autosomal recessive retinal degenerative disease, which means that our parents are carriers although they were not affected.
After my diagnosis in 1995, I researched Stargardt disease exhaustively and concluded that the disease was so complicated there would likely be no “cure” or treatment for it in the next 20 years. But after attending the Visions 2008 conference sponsored by the Foundation Fighting Blindness in Washington D.C., I started paying attention again.
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Our latest user story was sent to us from Emma Roberts in Australia as read by Shawn Warren, Ai Squared’s Vice President of Product Support.
Watch it right here by clicking on the image below or go onto YouTube and watch it there.
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In 1981, I biked from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Bar Harbor, Maine, by myself, so having bicycle repair skills was crucial. These skills came in handy when I had a flat tire coming down the other side of the White Mountains on a dirt road that eventually led to pristine Center Sandwich, New Hampshire. I’m sure you have experienced black flies at some point in your life. Needless to say, while being eaten alive, I fixed that flat in record time.
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We’ve talked a lot about the iPad here on Zoomed In – let’s face it, it’s just cool. There are many reasons we decided to highlight it here, one of which being its built-in accessibility features. Maurie was the first here in the office to get one; she happens to be visually impaired and has found it to be very accessible. There’s never going to be a product that works for everyone but the iPad really does a great job at making accessibility a priority.
The Kindle on the other hand has caught a lot of flack in the media for not being accessible. Some schools have gone as far as terminating their Kindle pilot programs because of accessibility. The government is now stepping in and reaffirming its stance that colleges should provide technology that can be used by students with disabilities.
Weigh in on the debate! Post your comments and thoughts below.
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A few months ago I received a phone call from fellow ZoomText user, Curt Woolford. Over the years that I spent answering phones in tech support, I had spoken with Curt several times. Curt and his girlfriend Schelly were traveling through New England and wanted to stop in Manchester on their way to Bar Harbor, Maine. Curt wanted to squeeze in a hike in the Green Mountains and meet the people that make the software that helps him use his computer.
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