I’ve been newly diagnosed, what’s next?
Speaker: Mark Chapman, Royal National Institute of Blind People eye care liaison officer at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital.
Description: Mark Chapman shares practical advice on what to do and where to find support after being diagnosed with an eye condition.
DaiSee is an AI-powered assistive app designed for people living with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual impairments. Using your phone’s camera and voice interaction, DaiSee helps you read printed text, identify objects, understand your surroundings, recognise colours, and hear information clearly in real time.
Whether it’s reading medication labels, finding everyday items, or navigating unfamiliar environments, DaiSee is built to make everyday life feel more accessible, independent, and less stressful.
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Accessibility Aids for Apple iPhone and iPad
Apple products have many built-in accessibility features in the following areas: Vision, Physical / motor, Hearing and General. They can be found by tapping on the Settings icon on the Home screen, then scrolling down and tapping Accessibility.
In the Vision category, you can vary the text size, boldness, colour, etc., zoom into any part of the screen or get the phone to read out loud what is on the screen. In the Hearing category you can link to Made for iPhone hearing aids, select hearing recognition for some sounds, manage headphone sounds and show sub-titles where available.
Many more features are available and to find out more information you might wish to explore the accessibility section of the Apple website given below.
https://www.apple.com/uk/accessibility/
As an example, VoiceOver is a screen reader that is built in to the devices. You can use the iPhone even if you can’t see the screen. It can give audible descriptions of what is on the screen and describe people and objects in scenes. It can tell you say the battery level, who’s calling, which app your finger is resting on, etc.
There are also 45 excellent videos on YouTube.com produced by Apple Support to demonstrate how to use the features. To access these, go to www.youtube.comand type in the search bar at the top Apple Accessibility. Then look down the list of videos to the one called Apple Accessibility and click on it. A video will start but just stop that. You will now see a long column of videos on the right on how to set up and use the Accessibility features.
A virtual assistant called SIRI is built into the iPhone which lets you use your voice to carry out lots of tasks. The link below will take you to the Apple SIRI website to show examples of what it can do.
https://www.apple.com/uk/siri/
There are several free very powerful apps that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store. For instance, Seeing AI is an app from Microsoft with many powerful features. For instance, if an object is held in front of the phone’s back camera it will say something about it. For instance, it can a) recognise a bar code on a product and tell you what the object is, b) tell you the denomination of a bank note, c) read a document out loud to you, d) recognise people, tell you their expression and even estimate their age!
AppleVis is a community of blind and low vision experienced users of Apple products such as the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac. It has forums, blogs, podcasts, etc. so you can ask questions of the community, or just look at previous posts.
The RNIB website has a lot of really helpful information on many sorts of technology aids for partially sighted or blind people which can be found at the website below.
