Theo Strava – Run and ride training, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play store My overall rating: 4/5 stars Developer: Strava Inc. What is Strava? Strava is a free app you can use to analyze your runs, bike rides and a lot more. It has several helpful features to help you get the … Read more
Recently, I have started using both NVDA and JAWS for different tasks on the computer, as NVDA is better at some things and JAWS is better at other things. But which is better for what? I have found that NVDA is great for coding, as it gives you helpful beeps to show the indentation of … Read more
One of the pleasant surprises about lockdown has been how good technology lessons can be when done remotely. They have been much better than I would have thought possible! I have really enjoyed the lessons, and they have been nearly as good as having them in person. My top tips are: Zoom is great, and … Read more
These three meeting platforms all have several accessibility features and are all very popular, but which is the most accessible for young braillists? Zoom Accessibility rating: 9/10 Zoom have tried very hard to make their meeting platform accessible to everyone, and they have added a lot of accessibility features to their mobile and desktop apps … Read more
You have probably heard of The three components of the web (HTML, JavaScript and CSS), but why is CSS even needed What is it? CSS stands for cascading style sheets. It is a way to style an HTML document without adding inline style tags (e.g. style=”background-color:…; color:…;”) to all elements on the page that you … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. It is the first post in our Appy Thursday’s series. Posted: 02 May 2019 09:56 AM PDT This Thursday’s useful app is Microsoft Soundscape Rating: (open frac)4.5(fraction line)5(close frac) stars Description: Soundscape is a free app developed by Microsoft to help you get around. It tells you what’s … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 03 May 2019 11:12 PM PDT I have coded a website in HTML which is very accessible for blind people. This website is for the Tactile Times Newspaper, which is by braillists for braillists. If you would like to check out my website go to https://tactiletimes.org I … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 09 May 2019 01:03 AM PDT This Thursdays useful apps are Blindfold Games! Overall rating: (open frac)4(fraction line)5(close frac) stars Description: Blindfold games are accessible games that you play on an iPhone or iPad. For example, there is Blindfold Connect which is electronic connect 4 and Blindfold … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Please note: Lots of these bugs are no longer an issue, but the Touch+ does have many new bugs (which I will post about soon). Posted: 14 May 2019 06:34 AM PDT Bugs on my BrailleNote Touch As I mentioned in an earlier post, My BrailleNote Touch has … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 16 May 2019 12:17 AM PDT Calling all football fans! This Thursday’s useful app is All Football which is the ultimate, free and accesiible football app. You can check out fixtures and results in leagues round the world or browse the top football news. Get this app … Read more