Theo This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 28 May 2019 12:02 AM PDT The Trainline App Rating: (open frac)4(fraction line)5(close frac) stars Description: Today’s useful app is Trainline which is a great app for checking train times with VoiceOver. How to download: Either search ”trainline UK” on the app store or Google Play store … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 06 Jun 2019 10:54 AM PDT This Thursday’s useful app is Siri which is the best way to get things done with your voice on the iPhone. Siri can send texts, compose WhatsApps, tell you the weather, open apps and much more. You can also customize Siri’s … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 13 Jun 2019 03:14 AM PDT Rating: 4 of 5 Description: WhatsApp is a free accessible messaging service which is good to have but sometimes the odd accessibility bug crops up. e.g. there used to be a bug that when you swiped through recipients there was an … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. Posted: 20 Jun 2019 04:32 AM PDT ⠀ This Thursday’s useful app is Seeing ⠠⠠⠁⠊⠀which is the best app for ⠉⠁⠏⠞⠡⠁⠬⠀print text and speaking the text out loud. You can also read the captchaed text using a braille “play or if captchaing a document export it as document.html … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. We will recover as much of the Appy Thursday’s series as we can! Posted: 27 Jun 2019 12:37 PM PDT Rating: 4 of 5 It turns out that Google Home isn’t just an accessible app to manage your Google Home, if you have a smart house accessory with … Read more
This has been recovered from our old Blogger site. Posted: 20 Jul 2019 03:19 AM PDT Sorry for such a long time with no posts, it has been the end of the school term and I have lefs my primary school. Sight Village Central is an exhebition run by Queen Alexandra College for the Blind … Read more
Posted: 22 Nov 2019 10:40 PM PST This is a recovered guide from Blogger. How to pair a braille display to iOS: Once the Braille display is turned on and in pairing mode, do the following on your iOS device: 1. Navigate to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver and turn VoiceOver on if it is … Read more
WhatsApp is a very popular app a bit like Skype. You have probably heard of WhatsApp groups. There are often lots of WhatsApp groups that friends use to chat to each other. At my school, there is even one called “Almost every Year 7” that has pretty much all Year 7’s who are on WhatsApp. … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. __________ Below we have put together a guide on the basics of using Skype: Skype is available on BrailleNote Touch, BrailleNote Touch +, iPhones, iPads and laptop Skype is an app that you can ue to call people and chat with them. You can have Skype chats and … Read more
This is a recovered post from Blogger. __________ Everyone is suddenly using Zoom. How do I use it and how accessible is it? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:05 AM PDT Sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while. I will be posting guides for how to use other chat apps soon. — Since lockdown started, … Read more