Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
>>Wade: Hi, I'm Wade Winger with the INDATA Project at Easter Seals Crossroads in Indiana.
You know, we are kinda crazy about the Apple Products-the
iPad, the iPod and those kind of devices. We are going
to spend a few minutes here with Carol Girt, one of our Equipment Specialists, talking
about some really neat stuff who have visual impairments
using those Apple devices. >>Carol: Hello, my name is Carol Girt and
I'm the Equipment Loan Specialist at INDATA. One of the
things we do is lend various pieces of equipment to see if it will work for you. One of the
most popular items at the moment is the iPad and
the iPad2. It has many, many uses. It has uses for the
hearing, or I should say, non-hearing population, and for the low-vision population, as well
as for communication for people who have difficulty
speaking. Today, I'm going to show you some apps that
are really cool for the low-vision population. You can see on here that I have a lot of applications.
They are for various people. This one I like really well. It's called Magnifier. It is
free. You can see my niece. If I pull it out enough, you
can see her. You can see all kinds of things. You can
read the newspaper with it. You can see various things. It goes from 1x all the way up to
9x. It can take a picture and allow you to bring it up
to your eyes to see it much easier. It can be used in the
grocery store as well. Another one, is a fun one...
>>ipad VoiceOver" 9 minus 3 equals 6. >>Carol: ... So it's a talking calculator.
The thing that is really nice about this is that it does
have very large numbers. (Pause) Map Quest. It's going to try to find me, but I can, with
my voice, tell it where I want to go, which is always
a good thing to have happen. It actually does have me on
Keystone Avenue on Kingsway Drive. Let me blow it up a little bit. So, if I wanted to,
I could go down to some of these other placesand put
my places and make it give me directions, verbally.
The Money Reader. This is a cool one. It's going to use the camera and I'm going to slip
this back here behind.
>>ipad VoiceOver: 50 dollars. >>Carol: There you go! And it told me how
much it actually was. It doesn't have to see the numbers to
actually tell you what the bill is. It can somehow reads things along the bill and tells
you what it is. Another one that I found very neat, cool is
My Quick Recordings. I can make a note to myself. I can
tell it, "Today I'm going to do this Tech Tip."
>>Quick Voice VoiceOver: "I can tell it today that, I'm going to do this Tech Tip."
>>Carol: Now, there's another one in here. They are hard to find upside down. This is
a calendar and it will give you reminders. (For example)
I can say that I've got to see the man about a new car. I can
stop it and it will give me a time. It's approximately 1:35pm and it will give me this reminder in
5 minutes. In 5 minutes it will speak up and remind me of my own message. So, it's pretty
cool. That's just a few of the applications that are one
itunes. I can continually looking for new ones everyday.
So, thank you and bye! >>Wade: So, that's your Tech Tip for this
week. I'm Wade Wingler with the INDATA Project in Indiana.