I have watched your videos for awhile now, and when I first started watching I knew almost nothing about blindness. Thank you for making these videos.😊
I turned on voiceover on my computer after watching your first video and spent a couple hours messing around with it and seeing if I could navigate my computer with my eyes closed. It's definitely a 180 from how I use technology as a sighted person and I kept forgetting where my keys were, but it's pretty awesome to see someone who's fluent with it using it like no big deal.
sir9integra9jr well, of course she is. it is what she did from the beginning. I actually found it easy to use voice over on my phone. but couldn't use every app. and I wanted to see it.
Different. Not difficult. That's something about disabilities I wish everyone could understand. I'm a high school student in special education with Emotional Disability. It bothers me when people don't understand that having a disability just means you are different and that it doesn't make things more difficult. Especially since my disability isn't something you can see. Staff at school don't help me because they don't understand my disability so they just don't care. I love you so much molly. You're an amazing advocate for blindness, mental health, and disability awareness in general. Love you! 💜
Erin Alexa "difficult" would be the appropriate term for those with a disability trying to do something without accommodations, not doing so with accommodations!
Molly, hi! I am a vision impaired guy in Australia. It is fantastic to see someone preaching the good word about apple accessibility!! Very few people are aware of just how accessible products are out of the box. If only android was just as accessible and offered a similar eco system, keep up the great work!
I learned how to use VoiceOver from your other "How I use technology" video. I am sighted, but I can use my apple iOS devices blind-folded now! It helps me develop websites that work better with screen readers, since I can try it myself. Weirdly enough blindfolded is harder than with my eyes closed, since I know where I am still with my eyes closed. I still have "light perception" like you say of my environment, so I know which corner of the room I'm facing and where the bright screen is. (Eyelids being thin and letting some light through). Blindfolds are thicker, so I lose light perception. Thanks for these videos!
You are such an inspiration. I don't know if you will ever read this (i guess you receive thousands of messages), but anyway, i would like to tell you that you are awesome. God bless you. Regards from Perú. :)
The voice over speed reminds me when I read audiobooks. I'm sighted but I always think the 2-times speed is too slow, and people I know are like "I can't even understand that." But the regular speed of audiobooks reminds me of the slow-talking sloths in Zootopia. haha
Does voice over automatically tell you when the battery is at certain percentages or do you have to hover your finger over the top corner to check it? Just curious :-)
Do you have iPhone? you know if your iPhone 20 percent ....mittel of the screen you see a info..... your phone is 20% battery voice over can tell that information!
I am a VoiceOver user on both iOS and macOS. VoiceOver will read alerts and notifications when they appear. It doesn't read absolutely everything to you automatically unlike other screen readers. That's one of the great things about VoiceOver. It tries to provide an experience that's as equal to the mainstream experience as possible. You're not told everything by default, but you can quickly receive the information if you request it.
This was a great video! Thank you for showing and explaining the way voiceover works. I tried using it once, but as I am legally blind and still have a lot of sight, it just didn’t work too well for me. And it was confusing for me because I double tap with three fingers to use the magnifier all the time. And such a good point about how voiceover changes how you interacts with the phone completely! I too am very grateful for modern technology. So much of what I do was not possible even 10 years ago.
Hey Molly, I am totally blind and use my voiceover around about the same speed as you and it drives people nuts when I'm listening to long emails or texts lol they say it sounds chinese!
Hey Molly :) thanks for the video. I just found you on TH-cam, and was shocked to realize there was someone with RP on TH-cam! I have Usher Syndrome (combined hearing loss and RP). I'm so so so so happy to have found you, and thank you for everything you do. This video was hugely helpful to some tech tips for me! I knew some, but learned a lot too!! Thank you thank you
Thank you Molly! We went to India together with WE in 2013 and I learned so much from you about how you navigate and go through day to day activities, and I'm so glad I did. Due to a traumatic brain injury, I'm currently losing my eye sight. It is more than likely temporary, but in the mean time I'm going to rock all that you taught me for the time being. Thank you for making this all feel more possible and far less daunting!
I randomly stumbled across your channel and I am so glad I did. In my family, there is an eye condition that causes blindness gradually. It’s unique to just my family, but they use RP as a descriptor as it closest mimics it. The difference being it usually strikes later- late 20’s or later and progresses very slowly. My great-grandmother had it, my grandma has it, my dad and 3 of his siblings have it. What we do know it’s a 50/50 chance of the child of an affected parent having, it so I’ve lived my life kind of waiting-and-seeing if it will strike. I’m now 31 so things are looking good (knock on wood), but I’ve taking great comfort watching your videos. Obviously, with visual impairment brings challenges, but it’s amazing to see how you’ve made accommodations and adjustments to live your best life. While I will never wish RP upon myself, brothers and cousins, I feel a little encouraged and less scared after seeing how you lead and live an amazing life.
If you use Siri a lot you might want to download Google Assistant, ask Siri to load Google Assistant and then say "OK Google" for getting questions answered. Siri misunderstands more often and gives less than desirable results. For instance, asking Siri for today's forecast gives you high and low temperatures while google will tell you if it's cloudy or if there's a chance of rain, etc.
Carlos Benjamin i’m sorry… But… I don’t know what the hell you’re using. I just asked Siri on my iPad what the forecast was, and it clearly said it was partly cloudy and 51° at the time of writing this. So yes, it can give forecast details. and while yes… The forecast details might not match up with any other weather app or whatever… It’s because, certain things get their information from different places. One weather app might say it’s 56°, well another might say it’s 57. And so on… And so on… And so on. my point here is, again… I don’t know what the hell you use, but, aside from occasional screw ups with Siri, which do happen I will admit, while not a lot, it works pretty well.
I know this video was posted many months ago, but I just wanted to say that seeing how someone like you uses technology is actually pretty cool! As a person with mild cerebral palsy, I use technology a lot of the time to help me with a few things, but I don’t rely on it constantly. I do agree with the statements you made about technology. I think it’s amazing how it’s been able to help those with disabilities, myself included. In terms of that, I wonder what other cool and helpful things technology will be able to do for us. Who knows what it’ll be able to do in the future? Only time will tell.
It's kind of funny. I'm not blind, but I'm autistic so many of my senses are different than they would otherwise be. I can be over or undersensitive to specific senses. I don't have a lot of stuff involving sight, but I'm undersensitive to touch (and, in some complicated ways, sound). I would make a guess that, in the same way you say your brain craves light and it 'feels good', the same goes for me with touch, pressure (wearing a heavy blanket, carrying a heavy backpack, being hugged tightly), and some sound. Definitely hard to explain to folks who have no experience with that kind of thing, but it feels so nice!
I have a question. What does stimming do for you? I get really confused by that. Like how some autistic kids use bright toys or different textures for stimulation.
Megan Lambert omhgg im not autistic but i have the same thing with touch & im so glad that someone else feels that too xD. i just thought i was weird (well, i am weird but not about this xD)
Meg Im not autistic but I have a similar thing with pressure, but with my fingers. They have to be touching something hard or wet all the time or it’s uncomfortable
Megan yes! I have autistic traits (so I'm not autistic bc I don't have enough traits to technically be, maybe more Aspergers' or something) but I definitely know what you mean with the tight hugs, etc! Also some sounds and noisy environments can be overwhelming
Have you ever needed to use first aid? How do you go about fixing a cut or dealing with sprains? How should someone help an injured person who is blind?
Thank you for this video my grandmother is going blind and loves getting on face book and keep up with us grandkids and now she can use facebook better. Texting is a lot easier now as well.
Thank you so much for making these videos! I've been binge watching a lot of your videos mostly because you seem like such a nice person but also because I'm a sighted person and would like to learn more about accessibility. And I feel that I've learned a lot and understand things better now. Keep up the great work! x
I really like how you explained the voiceover and the different finger taps and key commands in this one! I liked the last video a lot, but I was still curious about some of the specifics of the voiceover feature. This was really informative! The voiceover sounds so fast, but I understood some of it and I can understand how you would get used to it over time. Thanks for this video!
You should do a video about trying to teach a sighted person to use technology blindfolded/without sight and trying to figure out voice over and things :)
Ahhh. Much better. Thank you for fading out the intrusive music after the intro this time; this video was much more informative. But, uh, no, VoiceOver hasn't been "on every product Apple's ever released". Apple's been making products since 1976, and they released VoiceOver in 2005. (Millennial Alert! 😉) There were speech synthesizers available for the Apple II computers back in the day, but they were third-party hardware products which only worked with certain (again, mostly third-party) software. Speaking of Apple not doing things, lame that they didn't have VoiceOver say "Max Volume" or make a unique sound once you've pressed the Volume + button enough times to be at the max.
You are such a inspiration. Thanx for making those videos. Never knew anything about blindness. Also its amazing to hear how much technology help you to do your day today works. First time i experience of such a nice tech use was when i book a ride with uber it shows me a message saying "Your driver is deaf or hard of hearing". Because of they mentioned the lil fact none of us got uncomfortable. I knew he can't answer the phone so i ddnt call, i knew its hard for him to drop me here and there or take a sudden U turn. At the end of the journey we both rated us with five stars. Anybody can do anything if technology adresses the matter. We all should appreciate such a services.
You are amazing and have an amazing channel, it's really cool that you share your perspective of the world and how to use the technology with other people, greetings from Mexico.
i really love this video, even though i don't need voiceover, i kind of want to try it anyways because i think it's just so cool that you can use your phone and stuff just by using certain gestures . love your content, molly !
I can see but now I really want to try those features! Thank you for explaining all of it and making me curious! If it works well, I may even keep the screen off to save on battery 😉
so you probably get asked this a lot but if an actual person (not the computerized voice from voiceover) talks super fast would you be able to understand it? Also, with the comments on youtube if someone misspells a word does voiceover correct it?
ann f Some people can understand other people talking fast, I can’t Voiceover does not correct words, so if there’s a mistake it’ll just be read differently
Thanks for your video. I worked with someone with low vision back in 1999 and it was quite enlightening. I was a web developer (I still am), and she had a job setting up computers for other people with low vision or blindness. She used a reader application named JAWS, but I suspect there are better products out there like NVDA. That was back when I was in my very late 20's. Now that I'm 47, I've gone though the very typical vision changes that happen to people during their mid-40's. I have to use glasses in order to read just about anything any more. It's very typical. One trend I've seen on Internet sites lately is the heavy use of grey-colored fonts instead of simple black. Also, it seems that since so many web developers are in their 20's, that they have no problem using teeny-weenie-eyestrain-o-vision size fonts. I could just smack them! I appreciate videos like yours because it's important for younger developers to have an appreciation that not everyone has a perfect body in every sense of the word. They need to know that time moves on, and that your 20's is a kind of beautiful accident of nature where everything can stand on a balance beam perfectly. But as time goes on, the body starts to have some problems. The fender falls off, the rear window has a crack, the tires are getting worn down, etc. I hope as time goes on that people will come to see the computer not so much as a machine that does calculations or that helps them communicate on the Internet, but as a translation machine. In this way of thinking, one input is transformed into another output - allowing people from various backgrounds to participate & contribute.
really love this video. I am a product designer and I am interested in your personal perspective of how accessibility in products help you and how it can be better. Would like to hear some product reviews from you using different products!
This is amazing, I'm so happy that despite your disability you can experience and utilise technology like this. As someone who works in the technology industry I'm wondering if you have any comments on what can still be improved about existing visual impairment systems? Thanks :D
I think the disability organisations would be happy to help you with this question.:) Or perhaps you already found advise? I personally just wish apps and web sites would be built with accessibility in mind. Like you can't add alt text to your Instagram photos. Wordpress only has like 14 themes labeled accessibility ready, and some of them have poor color schemes: not enough contrast and no thought for people who are color blind. I'm trying to do what I can to make stuff accessible even though I'm not a professional designer or anything. But it's quite hard sometimes when the platforms have limited options and I think in general people lack education in this subject.
The open sourse accessibility options need some help. Mac OS and Windows have great accessibility, and Linux is getting there, but there screen reader lacks some basic features. NVDA for Windows is the exception to this statement however.
Hi Molly Burke I legally blind and I love watching all of your videos you are so funny keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what kind of videos you will make next p.s. you are so brave it getting up on stage in talking about disabilities or vision impaired and also different ways to use your technology for the vision impaired
I can understand it driving you crazy when voice over is slow, while i'm not blind i do use a reader on my phone and i have the speed rate at 2.15x or 1.90x if its complicated stuff and nobody around me can understand it at all which i find kinda funny. Your voiceover is actually only a tiny bit faster than my reader so i can understand pretty well which is nice.
When you were talking about using Siri to turn off voice over capabilities it activated my Siri! Haha. So I guess our voices are similar enough that it thought I said it! Great info in the video, though. So fascinating learning about new facets of technology and how beneficial they can truly be!
I just found your channel and I love this and your last technology video. I myself am a Visually Impaired Person (aka VIP). Legally blind in one eye (I have very little sight in that eye but just enough) and completely blind in the other. Some say I do not "look blind" or "act blind" because of what I can do. I have been ask these same questions about how I do TH-cam, read, use my phone, tablet or even watch TV if I am blind and how I seem to use technology so normally. My usual answer if I do not feel like explaining it is I just do and I memorize things but when I start talking tech most just say "OK, whatever". Technology has helped the VIP and Blind communities be more productive and lead semi normal lives. Magnifiers on tablets and phones help me and so does the ability to enlarge the text and zoom in on the screens. Another thing that helps me is I had a computer teacher in school that made everyone learn to use a keyboard without looking at it. His rule was "Learn it or fail my class" and since touch screen keyboards are layed out the same way as physical ones I just memorize the layout. Keep up the great videos and don't let the trolls get to you. You can always turn comments off for a while on videos if need be.
What is the difference between voice over and speak screen?( here’s a breadcrumb way fo going to the way I use speak screen: settings ~> accessibility~>( under physical and motion) touch ~> back tap it’s the last one ~> chose between double tap or triple tap ( taping the Apple icon) and it’s the fifth one under accessibility. I wonder if this is much better for non blind users of the Apple products to use as it doesn’t take over the whole phone while reading what they want to hear as an alternative for voice over
I'm not a blind person but I still thinking about trying out voice over ect. because my eyes get tired of a long period of time if I'm working on my laptop so I will keep a open mind for everything :') ! Nice video Molly
I listen to books on Audible. I was so glad when I discovered I could increase the speed of the reader. It took some getting used to, but now I get through large books in a more reasonable amount of time if the voicing isn't super necessary for the story.
Still trying to understand why a lot of people are doubting Molly is blind. For the doubters, look closely at her eyes then look at the eyes of someone you know who definitely isn't blind. You'll notice that her irises are shaking slightly. Also (please correct me if I'm wrong, Molly) rhinitis pigmentosa affects the BACK of the eyes so the front looks normal.
@@zhuzhupetlover6673 I'm sighted and I understand a bit of what's being said...of course not the entire thing but I think it could still be a bit embarrassing if it read a text or something because people cam catch a couple words
I'm sighted but have an illness that severely limits my energy. i like to real long articles on my phone and computer and would be lost without voiceover.
Hi Molly, David from Brisbane here again Great video! i was educated from kindergarten-year 12 through the special education system in Australia- best decision my pearents made moving me from a regular kindy to SEDUspecial education development unit - or a kindy for disabled or in my case visuialy impaired or blind young children; as i was only 6 months into kindy when my teacher recommended it as i was not coping at all well. that aside I'm intrested as to weather you have ever used a eurikea; areia or braile note before in school or otherwise? ( for those who don't know these devices are machines which allow the blind to write in braile save documents on disk the eurikea was to a floopy disk 3.5in. and print either a braile embosser where the document is printed in beraile or connect the eurekia or any of these other devices to a printer where the typed braile is converted to print so a piece of work can be handed to a teacher for marking who can not read braile-some of my classroom teachers learnt in their own time which i think is fantasric! or did u move from a trusty perkins brailer-that would doubble as as a dumbell they were so heaveyLOL straight to a laptop with Jaws or vouceover? having some remaining functional vision i never needed any of the above but lots of my friends in school did i used a laptop in the classroom from year 7 onwards it wss a game changer for me going from an electric typewriter or pencil especeally as i have Cerybal Pallsy too and my handwriting is v-e-r-r-y messy mostly eledgable-even for me and i get writers cramp quickly i will also mention i went through school from91-2002 seems so long ago lol .......probably because it is 😂 so sorry for such a massive reply Molly im just intrested what the options were available for when u were in school. keep the video's comming! David Brisbane Australia.
Haha I'm just playing around with TalkBack (the android version of voiceover) and I accidentally changed the voice to a very high pitched voice and my phone sounded like one of the pets in Barbie films and then I turned it way down and now it sound like my phone had a wild weekend and lost its voice 😂
Random question: Do you people think it's okay to wear glasses to prom? I'm worried that it'll look ugly or that people will think it looks odd. I rarely see people wearing glasses to fancy dresses and it just makes my self esteem so low. I've tried to wear contacts but they irritate my eyes too much.
HoloPhan You wear glasses almost every day I guess and contacts hurt your eyes so those are not an option. Just be you with your glasses. They are definitely not ugly
No you will def not look ugly! There is nothing wrong with glasses, they help you to not bump into things ;P I get where you're coming from but they are nothing to be ashamed of or feel awkward about. It's just the same thing as with medication, you need them to function in your day to day life. And one of those days just happen to be a prom. I'm sure you are going to look fantastic and have more fun wearing your glasses than having itchy and irritated eyes from the contacts
HoloPhan not at all! I just had my prom and 3 of us 7 girls in my group wore their glasses! Maybe eye makeup will make you feel better about it; I know that when I choose to wear glasses a bold eye helps my confidence!
As someone who wore glasses for all of my childhood and adolescence (literally until my eye doctor said "well they're not helping you and your vision isn't getting worse so do whatever you want...") - do it! Prom is just one night - I know it feels like a huge deal, but the point is to have fun with your friends. If you're going to be uncomfortable wearing contacts, rock your glasses. You'll look amazing either way, I promise.
HoloPhan Just wear more dramatic eye makeup than somebody would without glasses---eye makeup is less noticeable with glasses (esp plastic ones/one with thicker frames). I wear glasses 24/7, I feel gross in contacts, and I exaggerate my eye makeup.
Hi Molly, I am glad that you could show this. However, it would be nice if you could actually show how to use it. I felt like it was almost how to turn it on, but nor really how to use it. Like how to creat an email with voiceover or read on the internet. Etc. I am new o the blind community as I am losing my vision also. I have bilateral eye neuropathy and intense photophobia due to a mitochondrial problem which is not correctable.
I would like to see her use the computer, like open youtube, read some of the comments, watch a few videos etc. Just to see how she uses it all in a session and for an app like instagram, which is all photos, is there a way she can still scroll and understand what people have posted?
I have been blind for 17 years no light perception at all so I love all the Apple products I’m thinking about getting an Apple Watch but I’m still debating on that LOL and I am right now working on getting a guy dog love your videos
Thank you so much for this video! I have a family friend who is completely blind and I never understood how his phone worked. I always hear the voice, but I never understood how it worked and what it was saying.
Hi Molly, I'm visual impaired and found this video helpful. I noticed you had files on your Macbook's desktop and was wondering if you don't use the trackpad, how would you choose which file you wanted to open? I know Finder would always be an option, I guess I'm just wondering the purpose to having the shortcuts on the desktop if that makes sense?
one of my friends who is born completely blind, he still uses an iPhone but is really bad at speaking English ..he asked me to help him make a video. this is very inspiring
I don't normally comment on Videos but I must say that you do a really nice job describing the Apple products. :-) I don't know if you know this now, but you actually can use the trackpad on the Mac computer. :-) It's just like using an iPad or an iPhone. Also, just so everyone else is aware, You do you have the option to take off the clicking noises in the settings. :-) I truly do appreciate Apple for making all of their products accessible to blind and visually impaired people. :-)
Great video! I don't know if this is something you've addressed before but how do you edit and upload videos to TH-cam? Does Voice-over let you do that as well? If so, that's pretty amazing!
I am also a completely blind TH-camr and I do my filming, editing, and uploading all on my own. I am going to be doing an editing and replying to TH-cam comments video here soon. You should come check out my channel for more eye-opening videos :-)
"I use this for what everybody uses watches for, I use it as a fitness tracker!" if you ever doubted that we live in the future, there's your evidence. and if that wasn't enough, calling people didn't make it onto the list of things we use phones for
Speaking as a person who grew up with rotary phones and "party lines", smart watches are very futuristic to me. Heck, I call my mobile phone a cordless phone.
I have watched your videos for awhile now, and when I first started watching I knew almost nothing about blindness. Thank you for making these videos.😊
This is my first vid I havebseen
I turned on voiceover on my computer after watching your first video and spent a couple hours messing around with it and seeing if I could navigate my computer with my eyes closed. It's definitely a 180 from how I use technology as a sighted person and I kept forgetting where my keys were, but it's pretty awesome to see someone who's fluent with it using it like no big deal.
sir9integra9jr well, of course she is. it is what she did from the beginning.
I actually found it easy to use voice over on my phone. but couldn't use every app. and I wanted to see it.
Dutchik ...yes, that's what I said. I'm glad you could use voiceover easily on your phone.
I've memorized my keyboard layout without looking because my back lit keyboard broke and I had to use my laptop in the dark many times 😂
Lyra Foxx hasn't everyone remembered their keys? like with the type fast training things.
sir9integra9jr Haha. yeah. but I'm not blind. I just do it in the night. so the light doesn't wake me up. cause I'm lazy.
It's so sad how people assume she's not blind bc she doesn't wear dark sunglasses and she can stare at the camera.
yeah exactly :(
Different. Not difficult. That's something about disabilities I wish everyone could understand. I'm a high school student in special education with Emotional Disability. It bothers me when people don't understand that having a disability just means you are different and that it doesn't make things more difficult. Especially since my disability isn't something you can see. Staff at school don't help me because they don't understand my disability so they just don't care. I love you so much molly. You're an amazing advocate for blindness, mental health, and disability awareness in general. Love you! 💜
Erin Alexa aww you're amazing!
zhuzhupetlover6673 Awe thanks so much! So are you!
Erin Alexa thank you!
Erin Alexa "difficult" would be the appropriate term for those with a disability trying to do something without accommodations, not doing so with accommodations!
BeautyWearsBoots you just have to do things differently. It's not harder
Molly, hi! I am a vision impaired guy in Australia. It is fantastic to see someone preaching the good word about apple accessibility!! Very few people are aware of just how accessible products are out of the box. If only android was just as accessible and offered a similar eco system, keep up the great work!
The voice over speech reminds me of the Animal Crossing speech 😂
I learned how to use VoiceOver from your other "How I use technology" video. I am sighted, but I can use my apple iOS devices blind-folded now! It helps me develop websites that work better with screen readers, since I can try it myself.
Weirdly enough blindfolded is harder than with my eyes closed, since I know where I am still with my eyes closed. I still have "light perception" like you say of my environment, so I know which corner of the room I'm facing and where the bright screen is. (Eyelids being thin and letting some light through). Blindfolds are thicker, so I lose light perception.
Thanks for these videos!
You are such an inspiration. I don't know if you will ever read this (i guess you receive thousands of messages), but anyway, i would like to tell you that you are awesome. God bless you. Regards from Perú. :)
The voice over speed reminds me when I read audiobooks. I'm sighted but I always think the 2-times speed is too slow, and people I know are like "I can't even understand that." But the regular speed of audiobooks reminds me of the slow-talking sloths in Zootopia. haha
Jovana Fung I listen to audiobooks at 3x -4x. Reg speed is so slow.
Hi! You don't read audio books. You listen to them. Audio it's a sound.
@@zoltancsata1956 it's a different way of reading, they're still consuming the same information as people who "read" the book
nikolas charlie true but he has a bad technicality and dad joke
Charlie it's still listening not reading.
Love your videos Molly! I don't know anyone with a visual impairment, that I know of, but still find your videos so interesting and educational!
Lindsey Stoughton same here! I love her personality.
Lindsey Stoughton I've seen this guy on the bus a few times and always wondered how he used his phone... now I know!
You have such a dry sense of humour, I love it
Does voice over automatically tell you when the battery is at certain percentages or do you have to hover your finger over the top corner to check it? Just curious :-)
jnerosfire oh yeah good question
jnerosfire Being a VoiceOver user myself, 😊 you hover your finger over the top corner, to check the battery percentage.
Do you have iPhone? you know if your iPhone 20 percent ....mittel of the screen you see a info..... your phone is 20% battery
voice over can tell that information!
jnerosfire yes iive been using it
I am a VoiceOver user on both iOS and macOS. VoiceOver will read alerts and notifications when they appear. It doesn't read absolutely everything to you automatically unlike other screen readers. That's one of the great things about VoiceOver. It tries to provide an experience that's as equal to the mainstream experience as possible. You're not told everything by default, but you can quickly receive the information if you request it.
This was a great video! Thank you for showing and explaining the way voiceover works. I tried using it once, but as I am legally blind and still have a lot of sight, it just didn’t work too well for me. And it was confusing for me because I double tap with three fingers to use the magnifier all the time. And such a good point about how voiceover changes how you interacts with the phone completely!
I too am very grateful for modern technology. So much of what I do was not possible even 10 years ago.
Hey Molly, I am totally blind and use my voiceover around about the same speed as you and it drives people nuts when I'm listening to long emails or texts lol they say it sounds chinese!
Blind In Society 😂😂😂
Blind In Society as long as you understand it, it doesnt matter 😊
Im also blind i want training to use computer ib india where i get training
Hey Molly :) thanks for the video. I just found you on TH-cam, and was shocked to realize there was someone with RP on TH-cam! I have Usher Syndrome (combined hearing loss and RP). I'm so so so so happy to have found you, and thank you for everything you do. This video was hugely helpful to some tech tips for me! I knew some, but learned a lot too!! Thank you thank you
Thank you Molly! We went to India together with WE in 2013 and I learned so much from you about how you navigate and go through day to day activities, and I'm so glad I did. Due to a traumatic brain injury, I'm currently losing my eye sight. It is more than likely temporary, but in the mean time I'm going to rock all that you taught me for the time being. Thank you for making this all feel more possible and far less daunting!
Molly, you're awesome! All of us in the RP and blind community are lucky to have you as an advocate! Thank you! :)
I randomly stumbled across your channel and I am so glad I did. In my family, there is an eye condition that causes blindness gradually. It’s unique to just my family, but they use RP as a descriptor as it closest mimics it. The difference being it usually strikes later- late 20’s or later and progresses very slowly. My great-grandmother had it, my grandma has it, my dad and 3 of his siblings have it. What we do know it’s a 50/50 chance of the child of an affected parent having, it so I’ve lived my life kind of waiting-and-seeing if it will strike.
I’m now 31 so things are looking good (knock on wood), but I’ve taking great comfort watching your videos. Obviously, with visual impairment brings challenges, but it’s amazing to see how you’ve made accommodations and adjustments to live your best life. While I will never wish RP upon myself, brothers and cousins, I feel a little encouraged and less scared after seeing how you lead and live an amazing life.
If you use Siri a lot you might want to download Google Assistant, ask Siri to load Google Assistant and then say "OK Google" for getting questions answered. Siri misunderstands more often and gives less than desirable results. For instance, asking Siri for today's forecast gives you high and low temperatures while google will tell you if it's cloudy or if there's a chance of rain, etc.
Carlos Benjamin that's because siri is outdated
Carlos Benjamin i’m sorry… But… I don’t know what the hell you’re using. I just asked Siri on my iPad what the forecast was, and it clearly said it was partly cloudy and 51° at the time of writing this. So yes, it can give forecast details. and while yes… The forecast details might not match up with any other weather app or whatever… It’s because, certain things get their information from different places. One weather app might say it’s 56°, well another might say it’s 57. And so on… And so on… And so on. my point here is, again… I don’t know what the hell you use, but, aside from occasional screw ups with Siri, which do happen I will admit, while not a lot, it works pretty well.
I know this video was posted many months ago, but I just wanted to say that seeing how someone like you uses technology is actually pretty cool! As a person with mild cerebral palsy, I use technology a lot of the time to help me with a few things, but I don’t rely on it constantly. I do agree with the statements you made about technology. I think it’s amazing how it’s been able to help those with disabilities, myself included. In terms of that, I wonder what other cool and helpful things technology will be able to do for us. Who knows what it’ll be able to do in the future? Only time will tell.
It's kind of funny. I'm not blind, but I'm autistic so many of my senses are different than they would otherwise be. I can be over or undersensitive to specific senses. I don't have a lot of stuff involving sight, but I'm undersensitive to touch (and, in some complicated ways, sound). I would make a guess that, in the same way you say your brain craves light and it 'feels good', the same goes for me with touch, pressure (wearing a heavy blanket, carrying a heavy backpack, being hugged tightly), and some sound. Definitely hard to explain to folks who have no experience with that kind of thing, but it feels so nice!
I have a question. What does stimming do for you? I get really confused by that. Like how some autistic kids use bright toys or different textures for stimulation.
Megan Lambert omhgg im not autistic but i have the same thing with touch & im so glad that someone else feels that too xD. i just thought i was weird (well, i am weird but not about this xD)
Meg Im not autistic but I have a similar thing with pressure, but with my fingers. They have to be touching something hard or wet all the time or it’s uncomfortable
marigee stimming is a way to calm down and self soothe when stressed out. It's just fun and relaxing to do
Megan yes! I have autistic traits (so I'm not autistic bc I don't have enough traits to technically be, maybe more Aspergers' or something) but I definitely know what you mean with the tight hugs, etc! Also some sounds and noisy environments can be overwhelming
Have you ever needed to use first aid? How do you go about fixing a cut or dealing with sprains? How should someone help an injured person who is blind?
Thank you for this video my grandmother is going blind and loves getting on face book and keep up with us grandkids and now she can use facebook better. Texting is a lot easier now as well.
Thank you so much for making these videos! I've been binge watching a lot of your videos mostly because you seem like such a nice person but also because I'm a sighted person and would like to learn more about accessibility. And I feel that I've learned a lot and understand things better now. Keep up the great work! x
I really like how you explained the voiceover and the different finger taps and key commands in this one! I liked the last video a lot, but I was still curious about some of the specifics of the voiceover feature. This was really informative! The voiceover sounds so fast, but I understood some of it and I can understand how you would get used to it over time. Thanks for this video!
I JUST SAW YOU ON A DOVE COMMERCIAL! YOU WERE AWESOME! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
You should do a video about trying to teach a sighted person to use technology blindfolded/without sight and trying to figure out voice over and things :)
The speed helps with privacy in public. Most people think it's too fast to understand. 👍🏼
Ahhh. Much better. Thank you for fading out the intrusive music after the intro this time; this video was much more informative. But, uh, no, VoiceOver hasn't been "on every product Apple's ever released". Apple's been making products since 1976, and they released VoiceOver in 2005. (Millennial Alert! 😉) There were speech synthesizers available for the Apple II computers back in the day, but they were third-party hardware products which only worked with certain (again, mostly third-party) software.
Speaking of Apple not doing things, lame that they didn't have VoiceOver say "Max Volume" or make a unique sound once you've pressed the Volume + button enough times to be at the max.
You are such a inspiration. Thanx for making those videos. Never knew anything about blindness. Also its amazing to hear how much technology help you to do your day today works.
First time i experience of such a nice tech use was when i book a ride with uber it shows me a message saying "Your driver is deaf or hard of hearing". Because of they mentioned the lil fact none of us got uncomfortable. I knew he can't answer the phone so i ddnt call, i knew its hard for him to drop me here and there or take a sudden U turn. At the end of the journey we both rated us with five stars. Anybody can do anything if technology adresses the matter. We all should appreciate such a services.
You are amazing and have an amazing channel, it's really cool that you share your perspective of the world and how to use the technology with other people, greetings from Mexico.
i really love this video, even though i don't need voiceover, i kind of want to try it anyways because i think it's just so cool that you can use your phone and stuff just by using certain gestures . love your content, molly !
Don't give the haters your time!! You're an inspiring girl
Love your videos! It was great getting to meet you at Starbucks the other day! (Hope you enjoyed your drink)
You were so sweet, thank you so much!!
I can see but now I really want to try those features! Thank you for explaining all of it and making me curious! If it works well, I may even keep the screen off to save on battery 😉
I saw your commercial!!! Congratulations
so you probably get asked this a lot but if an actual person (not the computerized voice from voiceover) talks super fast would you be able to understand it? Also, with the comments on youtube if someone misspells a word does voiceover correct it?
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Some people can understand other people talking fast, I can’t
Voiceover does not correct words, so if there’s a mistake it’ll just be read differently
This is a great update to the first video. Thanks for posting, these definitely answered some of my curiosity and wonderances.
I love her so much. The only public figure on the internet that I have so much respect for. God bless you beautiful
"I like knowing that it's rose gold and white" This was surprising, for some reason? but makes so much sense! Learned something!
Thanks for your video. I worked with someone with low vision back in 1999 and it was quite enlightening. I was a web developer (I still am), and she had a job setting up computers for other people with low vision or blindness. She used a reader application named JAWS, but I suspect there are better products out there like NVDA.
That was back when I was in my very late 20's. Now that I'm 47, I've gone though the very typical vision changes that happen to people during their mid-40's. I have to use glasses in order to read just about anything any more. It's very typical.
One trend I've seen on Internet sites lately is the heavy use of grey-colored fonts instead of simple black. Also, it seems that since so many web developers are in their 20's, that they have no problem using teeny-weenie-eyestrain-o-vision size fonts. I could just smack them!
I appreciate videos like yours because it's important for younger developers to have an appreciation that not everyone has a perfect body in every sense of the word. They need to know that time moves on, and that your 20's is a kind of beautiful accident of nature where everything can stand on a balance beam perfectly. But as time goes on, the body starts to have some problems. The fender falls off, the rear window has a crack, the tires are getting worn down, etc.
I hope as time goes on that people will come to see the computer not so much as a machine that does calculations or that helps them communicate on the Internet, but as a translation machine. In this way of thinking, one input is transformed into another output - allowing people from various backgrounds to participate & contribute.
I love how apple does so much to help people like you I looked and the accessibility’s page is huge
Omg Siri almost turned voice over on when you said "hey Siri turn voiceover on" 😂 I got so scared
I think all sighted people should learn how to use voice-over in the event that Siri does turn it on
Love that A Mess It Grows by He Is We played when you started music. :)
LOVE voiceover! i am really excited to see it demoed on a laptop tho that's neat to have it built into a computer.
Love TTS as well!
You have your speech rate way up! is there a way to train myself to understand it at faster rates?
Also, when i was little i used to stare at ceiling lights to stimulate my eyeballs.
Your hair 😍😍😍 I love your videos, keep it up!
Did you remember to link the videos in the description?
Updated!
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really love this video. I am a product designer and I am interested in your personal perspective of how accessibility in products help you and how it can be better. Would like to hear some product reviews from you using different products!
This is amazing, I'm so happy that despite your disability you can experience and utilise technology like this. As someone who works in the technology industry I'm wondering if you have any comments on what can still be improved about existing visual impairment systems?
Thanks :D
I think the disability organisations would be happy to help you with this question.:) Or perhaps you already found advise?
I personally just wish apps and web sites would be built with accessibility in mind. Like you can't add alt text to your Instagram photos. Wordpress only has like 14 themes labeled accessibility ready, and some of them have poor color schemes: not enough contrast and no thought for people who are color blind.
I'm trying to do what I can to make stuff accessible even though I'm not a professional designer or anything. But it's quite hard sometimes when the platforms have limited options and I think in general people lack education in this subject.
The open sourse accessibility options need some help. Mac OS and Windows have great accessibility, and Linux is getting there, but there screen reader lacks some basic features. NVDA for Windows is the exception to this statement however.
Hi Molly Burke I legally blind and I love watching all of your videos you are so funny keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what kind of videos you will make next p.s. you are so brave it getting up on stage in talking about disabilities or vision impaired and also different ways to use your technology for the vision impaired
I can understand it driving you crazy when voice over is slow, while i'm not blind i do use a reader on my phone and i have the speed rate at 2.15x or 1.90x if its complicated stuff and nobody around me can understand it at all which i find kinda funny. Your voiceover is actually only a tiny bit faster than my reader so i can understand pretty well which is nice.
lol does the fact that you can easily understand your voiceover mean you can understand trisha paytas better than most when she talks really fast? 😂
or when she's having yet another mental breakdownnnn hahahaha
that's the funniest thing ever hahaha
Oh you are amazing, I didn't know I could do that for someone. I'll try it later for a loved one. Love you tyvm!
Since you listen to everything sped up, do you listen to your own videos at a faster speed? I love watching most youtube videos when they're sped up.
same for me. I actually have a plug-in installed so that i can watch youtube videos at any speed up to 4x.
When you were talking about using Siri to turn off voice over capabilities it activated my Siri! Haha. So I guess our voices are similar enough that it thought I said it! Great info in the video, though. So fascinating learning about new facets of technology and how beneficial they can truly be!
4:49 do speed .5x and you can hear the phone tell her the screen dimmed
That was most definitely He is We playing on your phone! Love them! So cool to hear that you listen to them too! :)
Oh man, they are amazing! I've been listening to them since like.. 09/2010?
I just found your channel and I love this and your last technology video. I myself am a Visually Impaired Person (aka VIP). Legally blind in one eye (I have very little sight in that eye but just enough) and completely blind in the other. Some say I do not "look blind" or "act blind" because of what I can do. I have been ask these same questions about how I do TH-cam, read, use my phone, tablet or even watch TV if I am blind and how I seem to use technology so normally. My usual answer if I do not feel like explaining it is I just do and I memorize things but when I start talking tech most just say "OK, whatever". Technology has helped the VIP and Blind communities be more productive and lead semi normal lives. Magnifiers on tablets and phones help me and so does the ability to enlarge the text and zoom in on the screens. Another thing that helps me is I had a computer teacher in school that made everyone learn to use a keyboard without looking at it. His rule was "Learn it or fail my class" and since touch screen keyboards are layed out the same way as physical ones I just memorize the layout. Keep up the great videos and don't let the trolls get to you. You can always turn comments off for a while on videos if need be.
What is the difference between voice over and speak screen?( here’s a breadcrumb way fo going to the way I use speak screen: settings ~> accessibility~>( under physical and motion) touch ~> back tap it’s the last one ~> chose between double tap or triple tap ( taping the Apple icon) and it’s the fifth one under accessibility. I wonder if this is much better for non blind users of the Apple products to use as it doesn’t take over the whole phone while reading what they want to hear as an alternative for voice over
I'm not a blind person but I still thinking about trying out voice over ect. because my eyes get tired of a long period of time if I'm working on my laptop so I will keep a open mind for everything :') ! Nice video Molly
Angela Visser I have tried it before and it really was annoying me. I guess it's just something that you have to get used to.
Yeah I think so too :')
I listen to books on Audible. I was so glad when I discovered I could increase the speed of the reader. It took some getting used to, but now I get through large books in a more reasonable amount of time if the voicing isn't super necessary for the story.
Thank you so much for making this super informative video. Brilliant! :)
I *just* watched the other one. As this one's called "Pt 2" I figured that was as you expected... May I suggest changing the titles? 😛
Still trying to understand why a lot of people are doubting Molly is blind. For the doubters, look closely at her eyes then look at the eyes of someone you know who definitely isn't blind. You'll notice that her irises are shaking slightly.
Also (please correct me if I'm wrong, Molly) rhinitis pigmentosa affects the BACK of the eyes so the front looks normal.
do you ever get self conscious or embarrassed for something your voice over said in public?
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DAE it's too fast for sighted people to be able to understand
if u just like she did now. didnt have headphones in yet and it unlocked by accident that could happen :p
@@zhuzhupetlover6673 I'm sighted and I understand a bit of what's being said...of course not the entire thing but I think it could still be a bit embarrassing if it read a text or something because people cam catch a couple words
Thanks for the explanation. By the way - you have really fantastic hair!!!
this was very helpful!!!,
thank you for posting it :D
I found you from James Charles and Shalom Blac. You are such an inspiration. This is so cool! Thanks for sharing this! 💕❤️💜
Your video was so informative! I like your style, you seem pretty lovely
I saw your Dove commercial!!!!!!
I'm sighted but have an illness that severely limits my energy. i like to real long articles on my phone and computer and would be lost without voiceover.
I know this comment is old but I have this same situation. Never thought about using voiceover.. Thanks for the tip :)
Hi Molly, David from Brisbane here again Great video! i was educated from kindergarten-year 12 through the special education system in Australia- best decision my pearents made moving me from a regular kindy to SEDUspecial education development unit - or a kindy for disabled or in my case visuialy impaired or blind young children; as i was only 6 months into kindy when my teacher recommended it as i was not coping at all well. that aside I'm intrested as to weather you have ever used a eurikea; areia or braile note before in school or otherwise? ( for those who don't know these devices are machines which allow the blind to write in braile save documents on disk the eurikea was to a floopy disk 3.5in. and print either a braile embosser where the document is printed in beraile or connect the eurekia or any of these other devices to a printer where the typed braile is converted to print so a piece of work can be handed to a teacher for marking who can not read braile-some of my classroom teachers learnt in their own time which i think is fantasric! or did u move from a trusty perkins brailer-that would doubble as as a dumbell they were so heaveyLOL straight to a laptop with Jaws or vouceover? having some remaining functional vision i never needed any of the above but lots of my friends in school did i used a laptop in the classroom from year 7 onwards it wss a game changer for me going from an electric typewriter or pencil especeally as i have Cerybal Pallsy too and my handwriting is v-e-r-r-y messy mostly eledgable-even for me and i get writers cramp quickly i will also mention i went through school from91-2002 seems so long ago lol .......probably because it is 😂 so sorry for such a massive reply Molly im just intrested what the options were available for when u were in school. keep the video's comming! David Brisbane Australia.
Haha I'm just playing around with TalkBack (the android version of voiceover) and I accidentally changed the voice to a very high pitched voice and my phone sounded like one of the pets in Barbie films and then I turned it way down and now it sound like my phone had a wild weekend and lost its voice 😂
You are so beautiful and awesome!!!!! I can't stop consuming your content. Keep up the good work. And remember you are SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
OMG MOLLY I SAW YOU ON A DOVE COMMERCIAL. ILYSM
Random question: Do you people think it's okay to wear glasses to prom? I'm worried that it'll look ugly or that people will think it looks odd. I rarely see people wearing glasses to fancy dresses and it just makes my self esteem so low. I've tried to wear contacts but they irritate my eyes too much.
HoloPhan You wear glasses almost every day I guess and contacts hurt your eyes so those are not an option. Just be you with your glasses. They are definitely not ugly
No you will def not look ugly! There is nothing wrong with glasses, they help you to not bump into things ;P I get where you're coming from but they are nothing to be ashamed of or feel awkward about. It's just the same thing as with medication, you need them to function in your day to day life. And one of those days just happen to be a prom. I'm sure you are going to look fantastic and have more fun wearing your glasses than having itchy and irritated eyes from the contacts
HoloPhan not at all! I just had my prom and 3 of us 7 girls in my group wore their glasses! Maybe eye makeup will make you feel better about it; I know that when I choose to wear glasses a bold eye helps my confidence!
As someone who wore glasses for all of my childhood and adolescence (literally until my eye doctor said "well they're not helping you and your vision isn't getting worse so do whatever you want...") - do it! Prom is just one night - I know it feels like a huge deal, but the point is to have fun with your friends. If you're going to be uncomfortable wearing contacts, rock your glasses. You'll look amazing either way, I promise.
HoloPhan Just wear more dramatic eye makeup than somebody would without glasses---eye makeup is less noticeable with glasses (esp plastic ones/one with thicker frames). I wear glasses 24/7, I feel gross in contacts, and I exaggerate my eye makeup.
OMG I came from a video you made and you look soooo cute I love your hair!!
Love the video. One of my favorite jokes is to turn on voice over when someone forgets to lock their device.
Hi Molly, I am glad that you could show this. However, it would be nice if you could actually show how to use it. I felt like it was almost how to turn it on, but nor really how to use it. Like how to creat an email with voiceover or read on the internet. Etc. I am new o the blind community as I am losing my vision also. I have bilateral eye neuropathy and intense photophobia due to a mitochondrial problem which is not correctable.
I would love to watch how you navigate the web on the computer and phone!
I would like to see her use the computer, like open youtube, read some of the comments, watch a few videos etc. Just to see how she uses it all in a session
and for an app like instagram, which is all photos, is there a way she can still scroll and understand what people have posted?
I'm in Germany and I just saw your dove comercial 😍
I have been blind for 17 years no light perception at all so I love all the Apple products I’m thinking about getting an Apple Watch but I’m still debating on that LOL and I am right now working on getting a guy dog love your videos
Is that heiswe? I love that bad so much! Also I’m loving your content! I’m a new follower! Wish I knew about you sooner!
Just a quick challenge for people in the comments section put on a blindfold and turn on voiceover and try to make a comment like I did right now
Thank you so much for this video! I have a family friend who is completely blind and I never understood how his phone worked. I always hear the voice, but I never understood how it worked and what it was saying.
Hi Molly, I'm visual impaired and found this video helpful. I noticed you had files on your Macbook's desktop and was wondering if you don't use the trackpad, how would you choose which file you wanted to open? I know Finder would always be an option, I guess I'm just wondering the purpose to having the shortcuts on the desktop if that makes sense?
I love your videos!!!! You are so inspiring!
You're so amazing! Thank you for your videos.
You go girl do your thing
What things do you recommend when you are using the Apple Watch? is it Great for receiving notifications? Is it great for replying to messages etc.
Molly, have you seen the film "notes on blindness"? I thought it was very interesting and really well done.
wow - you are and look great.
sagsrehse wow - you are using great grammar
not my language - please correct me :P
how has this tech been updated/upgraded in 2019?
one of my friends who is born completely blind, he still uses an iPhone but is really bad at speaking English ..he asked me to help him make a video. this is very inspiring
I don't normally comment on Videos but I must say that you do a really nice job describing the Apple products. :-) I don't know if you know this now, but you actually can use the trackpad on the Mac computer. :-) It's just like using an iPad or an iPhone. Also, just so everyone else is aware, You do you have the option to take off the clicking noises in the settings. :-) I truly do appreciate Apple for making all of their products accessible to blind and visually impaired people. :-)
Does it feel in slow motion when other people speak? I'm typing as the video goes on sorry if you already answered this.
This may sound weird, but how do you find out what percent your battery is at? Is it a function with voice over as well?
I'm sure there is, since VoiceOver exists for so long now. You could google it, if you're interested :)
Great video! I don't know if this is something you've addressed before but how do you edit and upload videos to TH-cam? Does Voice-over let you do that as well? If so, that's pretty amazing!
She made a video about it. She said that she either asks a friend to edit or hires an editor 😅
I am also a completely blind TH-camr and I do my filming, editing, and uploading all on my own. I am going to be doing an editing and replying to TH-cam comments video here soon. You should come check out my channel for more eye-opening videos :-)
"I use this for what everybody uses watches for, I use it as a fitness tracker!" if you ever doubted that we live in the future, there's your evidence. and if that wasn't enough, calling people didn't make it onto the list of things we use phones for
BeautyWearsBoots smart watches have been around for a long time, around 5 years, so no we're not living in the future
Speaking as a person who grew up with rotary phones and "party lines", smart watches are very futuristic to me. Heck, I call my mobile phone a cordless phone.