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Apple Launches Dedicated Accessibilty Website and we are Excited!
Apple premiered their Keynote yesterday with a video highlighting their brand new Accessibility website. I was immensely touched by this, not only because I have a disability myself but I have dear friends and family, as many of us do, with disabilities and anything that technology can do to help us all feel and be more involved within this world, is a truly wonderful thing. This morning, I have spent some time with my audiologist, I have moderate to profound hearing loss and wear hearing aids full time. These are a life line but they do present problems for me, in certain situations. When using the telephone, I receive a…
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All About Us At TheAppWhisperer
Established in 2009 TheAppWhisperer is the World’s most popular mobile photography and art website. We love mobile photography and art and we want others to love it too. Our aim is to inform, educate and inspire all things related to mobile photography and art. Find us on Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Flipboard Vimeo
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Accessibility Education – Pairing Hearing Aids to Your iPhone or iPad
As many of you will know, I was very recently fitted with some totally fabulous high end digital hearing aids. I’m so excited about these devices! We have a Photo Education and Accessibility section within TheAppWhisperer and our editor Luis Perez covers this. Luis is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in 2013 and is the author of Mobile Learning for All from Corwin Press. His work has appeared in THE Journal, The Loop Magazine, and the New York Times Bits Blog. I wanted to include a section about pairing hearing…
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The GoPro Camera For The Visually Impaired Photographer – TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish our latest article to our Photo Education & Accessibility.There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (something that I have) to many other difficulties that people experience, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in…
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New iBook – ‘A Touch of Light’ by Luis Perez and Giveaway!
We are so excited to reveal our Photo Education & Accessiblitiy Editor Luis Perez’ new iBook has been published by Apple – A Touch of Light. “You don’t have to see to have vision.” That is the Luis’ motto as a person with a significant visual impairment who uses photography to educate others on the importance of inclusive design. This book focuses on the what, why and how of adaptive photography with iOS devices. A number of video tutorials show how the author is able to capture, edit and share photos with the help of the accessibility features built into iOS devices and a number of photography apps. A framework…
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Photo Education & Accessibility – ‘Getting the Picture with Panoramas on iPhone’ by Luis Perez
We are delighted to publish our third tutorial to our new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of…
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Blind Mobile Photography with the Apple iPhone – Photo Education & Accessibility Tutorial
We are delighted to publish the first tutorial to our brand new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We are therefore delighted to welcome Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor. We recently interview…
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New Photo Education/Accessibility Section Added To TheAppWhisperer
One area we are very keen on exploring and helping our readers with on theappwhisperer.com is photography education and accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We are therefore delighted to welcome Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor. We recently interview…
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Mobile Photography Interview With Luis Perez – A Partially Sighted, Apple Distinguished Educator and Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 105th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Luis Perez, Luis is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in 2013 and is the author of Mobile Learning…
