1622 Improved Accessibility of Amazon Products


1622 Improved Accessibility of Amazon Products (May 25, 2016)


Show Notes

New features being introduced into Amazon’s Kindle readers and Fire tablets will now make these devices readily accessible to the visually impaired. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with Peter Korn, accessibility architect at Amazon, about the work that went into developing an enhanced user interface and how it has improved accessibility of these products.

1620 The Vision-quest Experience (May 11, 2016)


1620 The Vision-quest Experience (May 11, 2016)


Show Notes

Maribel Steel is an Australian writer and motivational speaker who is also blind. She designed the Vision-quest program which pairs blind and sighted people in a day of shared exploration to experience sites in their community. Hosts Nancy and Peter Torpey talk with her about Vision-quest and her role as an international peer advisor for AFB’s VisionAware.