Please join us for our December Phone Watch event... RNIB has teamed up with O2 to host our Phone Watch events at the new Workshop at O2 Tottenham Court Road, London, the largest O2 store in the UK...
Read more about December Phone Watch Event.
Tag: Technology events
Posted at: 30/11/2011 1:30 PM by Andrew Ronksley
Handcent SMS is a great app for partially sighted Android users. It's a replacement for the standard messaging app that comes with Android phones and is one of the most visually customisable apps we've ever seen...
Read more about Handcent SMS - App of the Month, November 2011.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 15/11/2011 4:00 PM by Andrew Ronksley
Please join us for the second of a special series of Phone Watch events in the run up to Christmas 2011! RNIB has teamed up with O2 to host our Phone Watch events at the new Workshop at O2 Tottenham Court Road, London, the largest O2 store in the UK...
Read more about November Phone Watch Event.
Tag: Technology events
Posted at: 2/11/2011 6:10 PM by Andrew Ronksley
RNIB are looking for IT specialists to join our 'Technology Support Squad', a national team of volunteers helping blind and partially sighted people...
Read more about Join the Technology Support Squad.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 26/10/2011 12:30 PM by Moderator
The Start Menu can still be found in the same place as in previous versions of Windows, but a tap of the Windows key reveals that the layout of the menu has changed...
Read more about Windows 7 'Start' menu.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 26/10/2011 11:38 AM by Moderator
Please join us for the first of a special series of three Phone Watch events in the run up to Christmas 2011! RNIB has teamed up with O2 to host our very first Phone Watch event at the new Workshop at O2 Tottenham Court Road, London, the largest O2...
Read more about October Phone Watch Event.
Tag: Technology events
Posted at: 18/10/2011 6:40 PM by Andrew Ronksley
Here's one for all you music fans and budding musicians. Aurifi - a completely accessible audio-only music based game for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch...
Read more about Aurifi - App of the Month, October 2011.
Tag: App of the month
Posted at: 1/10/2011 1:30 PM by Andrew Ronksley
Geoff Adams-Spink is a partially sighted Mac user who has written a review of Mac OS X Lion, which was released at the end of July. He gives it a B+. There are a number of comments to the article which give some useful additional information...
Read more about Mac OS X Lion review.
Tag: Technology reviews
Posted at: 26/09/2011 7:00 PM by Steve Griffiths
While the DocReader and the AppReader are similar (in that they are both text-reading tools) it is how they work with the text to be spoken that highlights their differences...
Read more about ZoomText - DocReader v AppReader.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/09/2011 12:27 PM by Webteam
While the AppReader reads text similar to the DocReader it differs in that the text is not piped into a separate window. So, if you have a Word document open that you want to read, the AppReader will read it in Word...
Read more about Introducing AppReader for ZoomText.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/09/2011 11:34 AM by Moderator