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Hello, everyone. I'm Lucy, and welcome to another episode of All Things Lady A for the Unmute Presents podcast series. This time we will be talking about three skills about things related to blindness. These are actually fun skills, but they are also somewhat educational. The first one is called Braille Dots, and it is just kind of a braille quiz. So let's see what happens here. Amazon open Braille dots.
Welcome to Braille Dots. One to four players can play. How many are playing one? Is this lucky Lucy?
Yes.
Let's start. Answer quickly until you get three wrong. To undo an answer, say undo. The letter g is made up of which braille dots is the answer. One dots two three and six two dots one, two three and five three dots one and two or four dots one, two, four and five four. Right on. You now have one point. Next. The letter p is made up of which braille dots is the answer. One dots one, four five and six two dots one, two three and four three dots one, three four and five or four dots one, two and three two. Great job. You now have two points. Next. The letter y is made up of which braille dots is the answer. One dots 1345 and six two dots one three four and six three dots one three five and six or four dots 12345 and six one? That's correct. You now have three points. Next question. The letter k is made up of which braille dots is the answer? One dots two three and six two dots one, two four and five three dots one and three or four dots four and six three? You got it. You now have four points. Next question. The letter l is made up of which braille dots is the answer? One dots two three and six two dots one two and three three dots four five and six or four dots one, two four and five two? That's correct. You now have five points. Next question. Thank you for playing.
Okay, so you get the idea of that one. That's fun. And I kind of think that this one is developed by Jonathan Mosin also just because of some of the sound effects, but I'm not sure about that. Okay. The second one is called O and M. Trivia and it tests your knowledge about orientation and mobility. So let's try this one. Amazon open O and M trivia welcome.
To O and M trivia from the american printing house. Do you want to start a one player game on beginner difficulty? Yeah, let's begin. What is producing this sound? One lawn mower. Two car. Three dog. Four bird, one. Great job. That is correct. On to the next question. True or false? All canes have the same type of tip.
False.
Great job. That is correct. There are different tips for different terrains and personal preference. See your certified orientation and mobility specialist for more details. On to the next question. True or false? Even with perfect cane technique, there are objects the cane will not detect.
True.
Great job. That is correct. The cane will not detect overhangs without an additional device. That was the last question. You got three out of three questions correct. Congratulations. Thanks for playing.
Alright, so there are different levels of that skill. So, yeah, beginner, intermediate and advanced, I think. And the questions obviously, hopefully get a little harder. So that's kind of fun. All right, so the third one was developed by Jonathan Mosen, who is well known throughout the blindness community. He was instrumental in establishing ACB radio, which is an Internet radio service provided by the American Council of the Blind, which is now known as ACB Media. And he does several podcast series as well about issues relating to blindness. And this is called blind Technology trivia, and it focuses a lot on the older adaptive technology devices and screen readers. So I am older, and I have been using adaptive technology for years, so I sometimes do pretty well at this one. So we'll just see about this. Amazon Open Blind Technology trivia welcome to.
Blind Technology trivia, version 2.0 by Jonathan Mosen. The game where we explore 35 years of tech trivia from the blindness world. I'll be asking you some questions about the products and people in the blindness technology industry. Some are super easy, others will break your brain. If you like this game, then please check out the Mosin at large podcast for plenty of interactive blindness technology discussion. You can get it anywhere you get your podcasts. One to four players can play. How many are playing? One is this bad girl Lucy?
Yes.
Let's start. Answer quickly until you get three wrong. To undo an answer, say undo. Torsten Brandt and Marcus Grober broke new ground when they created a screen reader to make mobile phones truly accessible. What was the name of the screen reader? Is the answer one talks, two mobile speak, three screen talk or four phone reader?
Two.
You said two mobile speak. Oh, holy soup. You bombed out on that one. The correct answer was tox. Tox developed into a powerful tool, complete with excellent braille support. Only two wrong. Two answers left, and you're out. Next. What's the name of the american printing house braille display with a Qwerty keyboard and note taker functions? Is the answer one, cue braille. Two. Braille penniless? Three braille buddy, or four mantis?
Four.
Incredible. Totally like incredible. You now have one point. Next. What was the name of Pulse Data International's hardware speech synthesizer, later turned into software? Is the answer one, keynote gold two key hard, three master touch, or four accent?
One.
Holy soup. Your memory is phenomenal. Phenomenal, I tell you. You now have two points. Next. I have an app. It lets me take a picture of something, and after a short while, a mix of object recognition and crowdsourcing comes back, describing what I've just photographed. What's the name of this app? Is the answer one, voice dream reader, two, digitize? Three. Tap tap c or four kNFB reader, three. Yippee Skippy. You now have three points. Next question. Developed by Microsoft, which free iOS app offers optical character recognition, facial recognition, barcode scanning, currency identification, and more. Is the answer one. KNFB reader, two. Prismo? Three seeing AI or four Ira?
Three.
Yabba Dabba, do you now have four points? Next. Who was the principal developer of Jaws for Windows? Is the answer one. Ted Henter. Two. Doug Jeffrey. Three. Glen Gordon. Or four Bill Gates?
One.
You said one Ted Henter. Oh, holy soup. You bombed out on that one.
Whoops.
The correct answer was Glenn Gordon. A blind guy himself, Glen Gordon came up with many of the concepts we now take for granted in all Windows screen readers. Thanks, Glenn. Only one wrong. One answer left, and you're out. Next. What kind of products were business vision and win vision? Is the answer one. Magnifiers, two. Book readers, three screen readers, or four gps navigation?
Three.
Yabba dabba do you now have five points? Business vision and win vision were produced by arctic Technologies.
All right, one more.
Next question. NVda is an open source screen reader for Windows. What does NVDA stand for? Is the answer one, not very difficult assistance? Two. Non visual desktop access, three. Non visual direct assistance. Or four, nifty virtual direct access?
Two.
That's correct. You now have six points. Next question.
Stop.
Thank you for playing.
All right, that one's fun. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. It sure does bring back, hopefully, memories of what screen readers and adaptive technology devices were back in the day. And, oh, my goodness. It's hard to sometimes remember who developed these and. Yeah, that's interesting. Okay. All right, so that's it for today. And I hope you got something out of those fun skills and can use them. So I don't know yet what I'll be doing for next time, but I'm sure I'll think of something. In the meantime, everybody have fun with your lady a devices.
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