TheBlindJournalist: Interview with Olypic Gold Medalist Steven Burke MBE for BBC Radio Lancashire

Listen to my interview with Olympic gold medalist Steven Burke MBE as he put a new cycling track through its paces in Nelson. The interview was produced for BBC Radio Lancashire.

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TheBlindJournalist: What is on my iPhone

This blog post is following a request by a follower who has requested I do a video where I talk about what is on my iPhone and which applications I use to assist me. Below is a video and further on you will find screenshots of the folder which contains the applications I use to aid me. I mention a few of the apps and what they do in my video. Also further on you will find two screenshots. One is where you need to go to in order to enlarge the text size on your device and the second is the various optinos available for accessibility. .

Screenshots:

In the above image you will find the applications I use to aid me. 

VisionSim is a simulator of various different eye conditions. As well as using the iPhone's camera to simulate how a sufferer would see, the app contains symptoms and information about each condition. 

TapTapSee is a fantastic app. It enables you to take a photo of an object and it will then process the image and tell you what it is. 

BrailleCoder is an app which teaches you the basics of braille and has short exercises to help you learn.

BigMagnify is a magnifying app which uses your camera for your phone to become a magnifier. You can chose the level of zoom you prefer and it also has an inbuilt torch facility if you need light. 

Go to Settings > General > Text Size. This will allow you to use the slider to decide to what extent you would like to enlarge the text on you iPhone for messages, emails and other apps which allow the iPhone to adjust the size.

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility. Here you will find various options to enable you the opportunity to choose what features you would like to activate to ensure your phone is accessible. The VoiceOver feature is essentially a screen-reader. It is extremely useful.