Hi! Welcome to Carrie on Accessibility-CoA for short! I created this channel to empower those who are blind or visually impaired like me. I’ve been legally blind all my life due to Aniridia, nystagmus, cataracts, and glaucoma. Living with sight loss, I experience firsthand how so much of our world is inaccessible. But with technology, innovation, awareness, and designing with accessibility in mind, we can live full and independent lives. Check out my content including Quick Accessibility Tips (QAT), Accessibility & Assistive Technology News (A&AT News), unboxings, reviews, interviews, livestreams, and so much more. This channel is me sharing what I’m passionate about-spreading technology and advocating to make our world more accessible. Join me in my EPIC mission-to Explore, Promote, Improve, & Collaborate to make the world more accessible. Support this channel by becoming a CoA Patron or RU-vid Member or simply Like, Subscribe, and Share. Together we can make a difference!
The belt is one of those hairbrained crazy things I can't imagine working that might just maybe end up being a hit. I remember when I scoffed at the new fangled voiceover on iPhone, how could touch screens possibly be easier for blind people? I doubt this is that but who knows?
The haptic belt would probably be really useful for people who are also deaf. If you can't hear everything it tells you, you want to have some kind of immediate feedback to try to stay safer.
Interesting devices. I wouldn’t wear the belt, thats for sure. However I wonder if this can be used separately and not just have the two piece setup always, it would be neat to have both devices and use which one or both for those specific situations Yu would find handy. I appreciate you Carrie ❤
When I was blind for a month, I really started to use VoiceOver. I had it in my 4x4 (on the backside - 8dot computer braille layout) mechanical keyboard case. But the first time I discovered triple-tap, it was an accident. I was in the mall; and unable to read. About a half-hour panic when I figured it out. VoiceOver is handy even if you can see, and just want to use it without looking at the screen for a bit. ie: Cant find glasses.
How were you able to turn up talkback that easily? When I do it, it brings up a menu turn up the media volume, but I can quickly find the accessibility volume slider. Mean while, you just pressed the volume up button. How did you do that?
Hello everyone. I'm thinking about buying stellar trek. I wanted to ask you which device you have, are you satisfied with it, and do you advise me to buy stellar trek? Does it have indoor navigation?
This is an interesting app, I kinda see this sorts of thing being used for more mentally challenged people or those with multiple disabilities almost since it makes it more interactive, and it would help them recognize whether someone’s speaking to them, or its one of their devices giving them a notice for whats ahead. It’s not something I would use as a deafblind individual, but who knows, maybe someone will like this, and find it useful. Thx for all you do Carrie! ❤
Thank you, for showing this product. I Wonder how it would work in a busy environment. Is Be vision, AI based, to help it work out the environment construction. Is this product available to different countries. Kind regards Tony from Scandinavia.
I understand what they're going for but this to me just means another thing that I have to try to figure out and learn. I could be wrong though. I would have to actually test it out and see if I want to continue using it.
I've been trying out this software but can't get the hang of it. Supposedly Ctrl + Caps + r or Caps+ down arrow reads out text on a webpage, but it doesn't do that.
Another great episode. Thanks. I concur with your observations and assessment. Thanks for continuing to be an advocate for the partially sighted that really need dark mode. I keep poking BeMyEyes about that and they just keep saying "Thanks for the feedback" and then do nothing about it.
I have been comparing be my AI and ira explorer AI. The only thing right now that I like better with be my AI is that it always recognizes stuff that ira explorer doesn't recognize. Other than that ira explorer is great.
@@carrieonaccessibility there have been several times where I explore doesn't recognize a character on my shirt but be my AI does recognize the character and tells me the name of the character. There was also a shirt where they each gave two different descriptions. Ira explorer identified stains on one of my shirts and be my AI did not do the same. I asked someone about it and I was told that it was a part of the shirt design that ira explorer thought were stains.
Awesome video, can you make a video in which you specifically call the AI volunteer? Why is this not available for Indian users? Also, very nice TTS, which one is it?
There is no AI volunteer. I apologize if I wasn't clear. There's Access AI which is the chatbot. That's separate from the agent. Be My Eyes is the one that has volunteers, but that is a different app.
@@carrieonaccessibilityO, so they want to use our calls with human volunteers to train their AI? Also, please tell which is the TTS of Talkback you are using?
I agree with you. I am also conflicted . I had my 1st cataract surgery in 1979 when I was 7. It didn't help. Science wasn't advanced enough to correct the issue and I totally lost the vision in one eye. Since then I have had cataract surgery in my remaining sighted eye. It was a temporary fix and didn't cure anything for me. I am now legally blind and about to have yet another surgery to hopefully maintain what vision I have left. Wish me luck!
honestly I think the reason behind this stuff being so expensive is because the components that they use for it (glass for example) cost a lot. That goes for the hardware also!
I feel like the some blindfold games that show the want to hear what blindfold doggy is all about? Check out this applevis podcast thing won't take to it any more because of it. Right? I've also seen stuff on it to see why RHVOICE on iphone hasn't did any english voices, and probably in the future. Why do you do this to us. Now everyone’s stuck with espeak until further notice. Well done non-routine llc!
for voices: isn't what you really want a pronounciation that is totally unambiguous about spelling? ie: completely remove the gap between audio and keyboard input.
@@carrieonaccessibility when i was writing braille code, i had this weird dream: where i got everything to line up. braille, sighted fonts, and a voice.... all producing the exact same characters at full-speed, in a computer terminal. the pronounciations were strange, but i could write code at full speed. if you think about it, keyboard, tts, and braille... if it wasn't for all the odd spellings that dont match how things sound; it would make no difference how you did your input and output. english is kind of a giant mess; and i expect the language to evolve to make input/output with computers easier. The Palm Pilot was a handheld tablet that used a pen as input. They changed the alphabet to be super-easy for computers to decode, rather than trying to recognize handwriting.
a person that programs by voice. it requires re-making English: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f7neTXb6HjQ.html I did lose use of both hands for a few months years ago, because i was up past my elbows in casts; and my company suggested Dragon Dictate. Just far far too hard. I did learn how to use a trackball mouse with my feet though.
No way!! I can’t believe that or cam is doing this! Wow! I don’t know what to say. But I will be interested to see what kind of products they are thinking about creating for the hearing impaired especially since I am not only visually impaired with retina as being Mosa, but I’m also hearing impaired also.
I don't really know what to think about this. Are they hoping to try to make a profit with another group of disabled people since they failed to make one with our group?
That's a really good question. There's a huge price difference and a huge functionality difference. II think the Ray Ban meta glasses are more worth the money, but the envision glasses probably have more use as someone that is blind.
I am a person who is blind. I cannot drive, but I would love a self driving car. It would give me some independence and I could do the fun things that I would enjoy doing. Are these cars going to be commercially available for blind people? I hope soon.
hi, new to your channel & I got the Meta smart glasses also because I am legally blind with nystagmus as well & suffered nerve damage to my neck & head causing further vision issues so hoping these will be of help. subbed 👍
@@carrieonaccessibility I am enjoying them one drawback for me is the transitional lenses don't change unless you're in direct sunlight & I am highly light sensitive & can't do sunlight without sunglasses & wearing a hat the bill apparently blocks them from transitioning I don't feel like the transitionals are good for people with vision issues I still use my actual sunglasses
