Talking Vision is Vision Australia's national radio program on blindness and low vision.
In the program for the week of July 7, we talk mobile device useability for people with low vision, the Disability Discrimination Commissioner packs up his desk and we have a bumper Reader Recommended for NAIDOC week.
To start, Vision Australia Adaptive Technology Consultant Jim Pipczak explains how people with low vision can easily make use of the range of smart phones and other mobile products available these days. He talks about features of magnification and other screen enhancement as well as various associated approaches for gaining the most from this range of devices. In his final days as National Disability Discrimination Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission, Graeme Innes makes time for a chat with Stephen Jolley. In a special edition of Reader Recommended Frances Keyland speaks with prolific Indigenous writer and commentator Anita Heiss and previews titles recommended by her which are available from the Vision Australia Library.
Program guests are:
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.
In the program for the week of July 7, we talk mobile device useability for people with low vision, the Disability Discrimination Commissioner packs up his desk and we have a bumper Reader Recommended for NAIDOC week.
To start, Vision Australia Adaptive Technology Consultant Jim Pipczak explains how people with low vision can easily make use of the range of smart phones and other mobile products available these days. He talks about features of magnification and other screen enhancement as well as various associated approaches for gaining the most from this range of devices. In his final days as National Disability Discrimination Commissioner with the Human Rights Commission, Graeme Innes makes time for a chat with Stephen Jolley. In a special edition of Reader Recommended Frances Keyland speaks with prolific Indigenous writer and commentator Anita Heiss and previews titles recommended by her which are available from the Vision Australia Library.
Program guests are:
- Jim Pipczak, Adaptive Technology Consultant with Vision Australia;
- Graeme Innes AM, outgoing National Disability Discrimination Commissioner;
- Anita Heiss, distinguished Australian Indigenous writer and commentator.
Keep in touch with the program through Twitter by following talkingvision1.