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Pete and Jeff, along with new team member, Jeff Young chat with Tomek Wardega, creator of the FopyDo scanning stand for the visually impaired. This tough, corrugated plastic stand works in conjunction with your favorite IOS OCR app to provide a sturdy and very effective scanning solution for your iDevice. Priced at only $12, FopyDo possesses many features which other stands don't offer. Join Blind Abilities for this 34 minute interview about Fopydo, a funny name for a very serious scanning stand! This podcast contains chapter markers for those podcast apps that support chapters, such as Downcast or Overcast. #BlindAbilities #FopyDo

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From the Pocket is a series from Blind Abilities that utilizes 2 accessible apps, Pocket and Voice Dream Reader. Pocket extracts the text from a web article or other sources you choose and with the Voice Dream Reader app linked to Pocket, you can listen to articles on-the-go while off-line any time any place. Matt Kim is the first blind engineer working for Facebook. Check out this article from Mashable.com telling about his journey to Facebook and what is happening to accessibility in Silicon Valley.

From the Pocket is a series from Blind Abilities that utilizes 2 accessible apps, Pocket and Voice Dream Reader. Pocket extracts the text from a web article or other sources you choose and with the Voice Dream Reader app linked to Pocket, you can listen to articles on-the-go while off-line any time any place. Some really big news in the Blindness community is Facebook just launched the new feature that automatically gives an uploaded photo an alternative text description. Known as Alt Text, Facebook engineers have just launched the new feature enabling Visually Impaired users of the Facebook app a glance at the images everyone is posting. Now we can get a bit more of the big picture when people are talking with images. Thank you Facebook. Catch a Falling Star from the Pocket Theme is by Go Fish and available on iTunes. Go Fish Children Records 2006

In response to an article I read that made me think about the intent and the message the article is actually sending. Is this written for the sighted and intended for empathy or pity or is it just another genuine article that I am reading into too much? Your thoughts?

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