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The Accessible Kitchen Holiday Shopping Guide!
The Holidays are a time of celebration, gift giving, and perhaps just a few too many holiday treats. In this article I’ll combine the treats and the gift giving and offer a shopping list of a baker’s dozen handy kitchen gadgets and accessories for the vision impaired chef on your Holiday list. Or maybe you’ll just want to treat yourself!
AccessWorld 2020 Holiday Gift Guide
In this article, we'll take you through a range of gifts selected to bring joy to the person with vision loss on your shopping list. All products are generally $100 or less, and in addition, all products discussed are sold by Blind business owners!
The AccessWorld 2020 Online Holiday Shopping Guide
Amazon.com is the clear winner in my opinion. It is the most accessible app in this article. Their enormous inventory makes it easy to do a lot, if not all, your shopping on one website. Bed Bath & Beyond comes in second. They offer a wide variety of products. Their live help is a plus.
PetSmart is a distant third. The lack of VoiceOver feedback when filling out forms and the fact that the button for choosing pickup or shipping isn’t accessible presents significant accessibility issues.
Product Evaluations and Guides
The New eSight 4 Wearable
The eSight 4 is one of a number of wearables for users with low vision, that are worn like glasses, or goggles, essentially putting a video magnifier right on your nose. Look across the room, out the window, at a book, adjust the magnification, and you have a device that magnifies what you’re looking at, and under the best of circumstances makes it easier to see.
An Overview of iOS 14 and iPad OS 14
The release of iOS 14 and iPad os 14 has brought many significant additions in the form of both mainstream and accessibility features. In this article, we guide you through the new operating system, highlighting the new mainstream and access features of interest to people with vision loss.