Jahas. Kaaduin sitten asfalttiin. En nähnyt portaita ja kävelin ns. tyhjään.

Perus usherin arki.

#RetinitisPigmentosa #kuurosokea #deafblind #UsherSyndrome

Mukinalusista on hyötyä.

Se suojaa kyllä pöydän pintaa, mutta kohdallani hyöty on ihan jotain muuta.

Se ei liity äänen vaimentamiseen, vaan mukin tai lasin löytämiseen. Läpinäkyvät astiat eivät erotu ja pöytäni on valkoinen ja enkä erota valkoista mukia siitä. Alunen on aina eri värinen ja se auttaa hahmottamaan missä juoma tarkalleen ottaen sijaitsee.

Sen lisäksi pystyn tunnustelemaan sormenpäilläni alusen reunaa. Jos löydän reunan, löydän myös mukin. Näin en kaada vahingossa astiaa kumoon sitä hamutessa.

#esteettomyys #nakovamma #kuurosokea #deafblind #juomat #drink

Näkökykyni on muuttunut 15 vuoden aikana ja sen huomaan kyllä itsestäni, kun aloin muistelemaan mitä kirjoja luin silloin fyysisenä kirjana.

Nälkäpeli kirjasarja on yksí tällainen.

Viidennen kirjan luen digitaalisessa muodossa.

#RetinitisPigmentosa #nakovamma #UsherinOireyhtyma #UsherSyndrome #deafblind #kuurosokea #kirjat #lukeminen

#disability #accessibility #deafblind #SmartTextiles

'Thousands of people who are born deafblind will understand live conversations for the first time thanks to new research into smart textiles being developed by Nottingham Trent University (NTU).

This world-first study will eventually allow the spoken word to be translated into a form of braille and communicated through e-textiles gloves to the fingers of people who cannot hear or lipread.'

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2025/04/deafblind-people-to-understand-live-conversations-thanks-to-e-textiles-research

As it is the start of the month I shall do some shameless promoting of https://ourblind.com/ for all the #blind, #deafblind, #lowvision, and #visuallyimpaired people around. @main @mastoblind

With all the changes going on at RNIB I’ve started looking into NFB UK but I’ve no idea how effective it is. Are many other #blind, #PartiallySighted or #Deafblind people in the UK on here members of it, and what do you think of it as an organisation?

HEAPS of things to check out in this week's edition of the #Deafblind Association NZ newsletter :)

https://mailchi.mp/e89b357682ed/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-4-april-2025

SO HAPPY to learn that #BCpoli Government of BC is increasing funding for intervener program for #DeafBlind British Columbians!

A great step towards inclusivity and #accessibility!

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025SDPR0002-000268

Another bumper edition of the #Deafblind Association newsletter is out, with heaps of news, roles, information, events and ways to engage :D Check it out!

https://mailchi.mp/2301af0d3bbe/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-21-march-2025

Sanna menetti kuulonsa lapsena ja sokeutui kaksikymppisenä – kertoo nyt, miksi ei halunnut näköä palauttavaa leikkausta

Sanna Paasonen, 45, menetti lapsena kuulonsa, nuorena aikuisena myös näkönsä. Harvinaisesta sairaudesta huolimatta hän toteutti unelmansa ja opiskeli opettajaksi.

https://www.eeva.fi/jutut/sanna-sairastaa-kid-syndroomaa

#deafblind #deaf #blind #kuuro #sokea #kuurosokea #kuulonakovamma #vammaisuus #disability

This week’s In Touch is about the unique experience of being Deafblind, and some new research taking place in the UK. It’s a great listen #Deafblind #Disability #podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-touch/id261292201?i=1000698792161

Some awesome stuff in the latest #Deafblind Association NZ newsletter, including a new feature, something for those in the North Region, your chance to test and help improve an #AI-enabled audio description tool, School of Rock and more!

https://mailchi.mp/544404ef5074/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-14-march-2025

I'm visiting the #USA for the #CSUNATC25 conference. Buying coffee, I got the perfect #coin in change for a #blindness / #accessibility related conference: a 2003 Alabama quarter featuring Helen Keller.

This was the first US circulating coin to feature a representation of Braille (there was a non-circulating 1996 Paralympics coin).

A little on Helen Keller from Wikipedia: "American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.

Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

#numismatics #CoinCollecting #Braille #deafblind @numismatics @accessibility

We begin our #IWD2025 celebration with Haben Girma: Eritrean-American #Disability rights advocate and the first #Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haben_Girma?wprov=sfti1

Another EPIC #Deafblind Association New Zealand newsletter!

#Hearing Day, new #disability #stats / #findings, #scholarships, #prize #nominations, #governance opportunities, awesome new #events and event reminders, links to other #newsletters, and #feedback requested reminders too. As well as the usual ongoing events / programmes.

SO MUCH :D

Go check it out! And feedback always welcome :)

https://mailchi.mp/4555d4a8ce5d/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-28-february-2025

just for fun I thought I'd ask my fellow #blind, #deafblind, 'and #visuallyimpaired people what #books you all are #reading currently, and what format, audio, #braille, or print. @mastoblind

I'm reading North Queen by Nicola Tyche on my kindle with #voiceview, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on my braille display.

Gosh, there is SO much to check out in this week's #Deafblind Association NZ newsletter.

Multiple ways to raise one's voice and get involved, from working groups to submissions, New events (including audio described Te Matatini finals), awards, open Council meetings, improved access to over 99,500 books on the #Accessible Books Consortium, and more!

Head over to https://mailchi.mp/0a8854cb5d4a/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-21-february-2025, and wishing you and yours a lovely weekend :)

And it's out! The latest edition of the #Deafblind Association NZ newsletter, with updates about Conference 2025, the #consultation, the #RNZFB AGM, and the upcoming #Innovation in #Retina #Research symposium :)

https://mailchi.mp/63097ad8af64/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-7-february-2025

And the latest #Deafblind #Association #NZ newsletter is out, featuring thanks, a reminder about the Conference in June (as well as other great events including the upcoming New Zealand Foundation of the Blind board meeting) and more!

https://mailchi.mp/13da4c32be0c/be-seen-be-heard-be-connected-rmere-friday-24-january-2025

had an interesting project request come across my desk.
A #deafblind client can no longer listen and is missing out on talk radio. how easy would it be to set up a receiver that output text they could read in Braille?
I can presumably get a raspberry pi to start streaming inbound audio either from an SDR or the web. is it viable to use something like #Whisper to then pipe that out somewhere?
I don't want to necessarily store data, although that could be useful I suppose, but the real aim is to have the transcript as close to real time as possible coming out over a local network connection (telnet, probably, for prototyping).
Anyone have any experience of this?