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Blind Abilities team member Jeff Thompson was invited to the 2016 Career Expo and took up some conversations with a variety of people who Transition age students could chat with about careers, jobs, and the tools they used to do their job or complete college. Minnesota State Services for the Blind hosted the Career Expo and the turnout was fantastic. Meet Bobby, a package handler from FedEx. Robert Binns Package Handler, Fed Ex Smart Post Robert was walking to a college class when he lost his sight in 2012. He fell into a depressed stage, believing that the only thing left for him was channel surfing and listening to television shows. One day he realized that he didn’t want to just sit at home for the next 40 years. He wanted to live. Because he was a new United States citizen, however, Robert had to wait for an extended time before receiving services. He ended up in a homeless shelter. All he has accomplished since then shows how high expectations and adjustment to blindness training can open many door

Pete Lane and Jeff Thompson bring us more podcasts with a Blindness perspective. Listeners sent in lists and we put together another cast of content providers that we feel you will enjoy and learn from their productions. Below is a list of the podcasts, their web link and the feed to subscribe to the podcasts using your pod-catcher of choice. We hope you enjoy. The blind Abilities Team Maccessibility » Podcast: http://maccessibility.net Touching the Future… Subscribe: feed://maccessibility.net/category/podcast/feed/1 Maccessibility provides news and commentary, podcasts, and online communities, and more to low and no vision users of Apple products. Cool Blind Tech: https://www.coolblindtech.com Latest In Assistive Tech! News, Reviews and Interviews Subscribe: feed://www.coolblindtech.com/feed/podcast?format=rss Cool Blind Tech endeavors in maximizing the independence, productivity and participation of the blind and low vision community, to empower the blindness community through the acquisition

Pete offers another iAccess Demo, this time on the native Apple Clock app. This deceiving simple app really consists of four separate and powerful apps within its confines. Check out the features hidden inside this seemingly simplistic clock app. #iAccess #Lane7625 #BlindAbilities

#blindabilities #health #fitness BlindAlive blog for this week.

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May 1, 2016

#blindabilities #fitness Lisa reads BlindAlive blog for this week.

Jeff Thompson from the Blind Abilities team talks to us about the Facebook new feature, Automated Alt Text, and what it means as a start to something big coming down the road. Included is the audio from the Facebook Live Video Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook talking to Matt, who happens to be Blind, and is an engineer in the Artificial Intelligence department at Facebook.

As part of the Podcast: series “What are you… Listening to?” Lucie puts fourth a few of her own. Not so Techie, however, great content makes for a great listen. Lucie starts out with correcting the background music and then into her list of casts. The Story Core Podcast from NPR, Embedded also from NPR, The Planet Money Podcast, and Somebody Knows Something. Join Lucie as she brings her picks to life. What Podcasts are you listening to? Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities.com or leave a message in the comments on the web page Http://www.BlindAbilities.com

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Blind Abilities offers another installment in their series From The Pocket, where they use two apps: the Pocket and VoiceDream Reader to bring you articles from the web. today's article is "NetFlix To Improve Features for Customers Who Are blind, from the Global Alliance for Accessible Technologies and Environments. This relates to NetFlix increasing Audio Described content beyond what they are already providing. #BlindAbilities #JThompson6835 Lane7625

Responding to a question or two regarding getting, learning, and migrating assistant to a new piece of kit such as a MacBookPro.

Check out the New BlindAbilities.com web site on your iPhone or smart phone, tablet or computer. the accessibility and responsiveness to any size screen is simply put, Brilliant. You can save the BlindAbilities.com on your Home page by clicking on save in your menu bar and save to desktop as an icon for fast access. Check out the BlindAbilities.com web site and let us know what you think or what you would like to encounter on the pages.