Michael Feir

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Happily married, creative, cheerful, totally blind. Love #technology, #reading, #writing, #accessible games, #podcasts, and much more. Collect modern #audio dramas. Contribute regular segments about audio entertainment on the Kelly and Company show and podcast.
www.ami.ca
Wrote the free ebook Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind user:
http://michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-second-edition-of-personal-power.html?m=1
Created and edited the Audyssey ezine about games accessible to blind people.
In case I have any blind students or others who need to write academic essays, I thought I should share this. The Essayist iOS app is accessible with VoiceOver. I'm thankful that I no longer need to write such essays, but would have deeply appreciated an app like this. Back to School with Essayist https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/essayist-academic-writing-app/id1537845384?eventid=6749283004
This is a very good article for Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Apple has put together a great representation of apps accessible to people with many disabilities. Blind gamers are well served with Brock The Investigator, a totally accessible graphical adventure game, given a prominent place in this main article. Also, Be My Eyes, an incredibly useful app bringing artificial intelligence and sighted volunteer help to blind people everywhere, is also featured. (1/2)