Helping Local Blind People

Description, Jasmyn House Technology Team.Who are we?The Jasmyn House Technology Team is a small community group of visually impaired volunteers. We aim to help the visually impaired people of South Devon and Torbay to enhance their lives and promote independence through the use of assistive technology by providing free practical advice and training on a range of assistive and access technology.What do we provide?We specialise in providing one to one or small group training on Iphone and Ipads using their built in accessibility features.These are; Voiceover, which is a screen reader that allows a blind person to use the touch screen and Zoom which magnifies the screen content so that a partially sighted person can see it. Our Iphones and Ipads have apps installed on them that are specifically designed for the blind and partially sighted, for example, an object recognition app called TapTapSee, an OCR app which scans any text and then speaks it called Knfb Reader, Be My Eyes which is an app that links a blind person to a sighted volunteer via the Iphones video camera, a navigation app called BlindSquare and many more. We also provide basic computer training. Our training pc’s have most of the more commonly used screen reader and magnification software installed on them, these include, Guide, SuperNova Access Suite, JAWS and NVDA. We can demonstrate various types of assistive technology equipment, for example, an electronic magnifier, speaking colour recogniser and digital labeller and a reading machine that can scan and read a document aloud.Beginner Braille lessons can also be arranged on request.