Episodes

Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
132. Russell Solowoniuk's demonstration of the LG washer and dryer with theLG ThinQ app
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
In this 12 minute podcast, Russell Solowoniuk demonstrates using his LG washer model WM3500CW and his LG Dryer model DLE3500W using the accompanying accessible iOS or Android LG ThinQ app. He describes how a blind person can use the washer and dryer standalone and how accessibility is enhanced using the app on his iPhone. Note that models described have been discontinued and replaced with washer model WM3600HWA and dryer model DLE3600W as of March 2024.

Thursday Apr 04, 2024
131. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 18
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
Thursday Apr 04, 2024
In this session, we will explore the lifestyle apps discussed in the previous session in more detail. We’ll talk about managing recurring events in the calendar. The Notes app is full of features to keep your information organized. Suggestions are at the heart of apple’s new Journal app and we’ll go through how to access these. Apps in this category are simple on the surface, but often have surprisingly thorough capabilities.

Thursday Mar 07, 2024
130. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 17
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Being so portable, your iPhone is an ideal device for helping with many aspects of everyday life. This session will discuss a number of apps designed to come in handy in everyday situations. These include Weather, Reminders, Calendar, Notes, Calculator and Journal. This group of apps is very suitable for use by beginners. Siri works well with all of them. Rather than an exhaustive exploration, this lecture will hopefully give you enough of an idea of the capabilities of these apps as well as how to control them in order to get started using them.

Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
129. Reviewing the features of Finder on the Mac
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wednesday Feb 21, 2024
Wayne Antle reviews the features and how to use finder on the mac.
finder is like file explorer for windows. It has many powerful features and uses.

Friday Feb 09, 2024
128. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 16
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Apple has long been associated with music and creativity. Your iPhone can give you access to millions of songs, curated playlists, radio stations, and even some live events. This month, we’ll dive into the enjoyment of music and go over the Music app and the Apple Music Plus service in detail. This is one of the easiest ways for beginners to start truly enjoying their iPhones.

Thursday Jan 04, 2024
127. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 15
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Your iPhone is constantly checking for new information. Apps running in the background can interrupt you with notifications. So can calls and messages from people. Thankfully, Apple has provided tools to help deal with this effectively. We will discuss notifications settings in detail. These let you decide whether and how apps can inform you of things in normal circumstances. Meanwhile, focus settings let you determine what and who can interrupt you at a given time. Between these groups of settings, you can be in control of interruptions to your daily life from your iPhone.

Thursday Dec 14, 2023
126. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 14
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
The Voice Control feature allows people to control their iPhones entirely with spoken commands. Designed with sighted people in mind who have motion difficulties making use of the touchscreen difficult, the system can be used in conjunction with VoiceOver. This final lecture for 2023 will give a basic tour of how Voice Control works. This completes the many different ways there are of controlling your iPhone. In the new year, we’ll begin talking about the many different apps and services which can be used and accessed by blind people through the use of their iPhones.

Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
125. A Demonstration of perplexity on iPhone with voiceover
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Nolan Jenikov gives us a brief demonstration of the iPhone application perplexity.

Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
123. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 13
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
For many blind people, Braille is vital. They prefer to type in Braille and read in Braille rather than using a touchscreen and synthetic speech. This is quite possible using VoiceOver on your iPhone. Apple offers extensive support for using their products with Braille displays. This week, we’ll focus on what’s possible when you connect a Braille display via Bluetooth to your iPhone. We’ll also discuss Braille screen input which lets you type on the touchscreen as if it were a Braille keyboard. We’ll also go over some pitfalls of using Braille with your iPhone.

Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
122. Unseen Touch Screen Course Session 12
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
We store a lot of information on our iPhones. Apple does a lot to help keep that information secure. In this part of the Unseen Touchscreen course, we examine these security measures and the things we can do to safeguard our information while still making the most of our iPhones. The relevant section of the book is called Digitally Defending Yourself.