Well I use a note 9. The Galexy Notes are nice for their stylis. They also pack more RAM and you will need that with screen readers and voice assistants. Trust me, google assistant is a godsend for the blind. It can screw up alot when you first use it, but give it time to learn your voice and it works great. I also like the double-tap that comes with the screen reader. By double tap I mean that you have to touch the screen and then touch it again in the same location to open what you wish to open.

I also installed google dox and that works very well with my blu-tooth keyboard. Though I have had to slow my typing down because of lag. So if you type less than 70 words a minute then your gonna be just fine. The voice recorder is very nice as well and has clear sound. There is also a program called google lens that allows you to take photos of stuff and then searches the item. Pretty nice when you cannot tell catfood from tuna. lol


Then there are the 59 audio books and 20 audio discription movies i have installed onto my sd card. O and the best part? The note 9 is water resistant so if it falls in your running sink or that water puddle you didn't see it is ok so long as you dry it off quickly enough.

overall its a good device for any blind person to enjoy.

i actually moved away from computers. I use my cell phone for everything now. The screenreader that comes with android is better than apple in my opinion. The phone is much better than PC and with blutooth keyboard and stylis i have never looked back. lol before i went blind i used to build my own PCs but now I dont want anything to do with them.

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. Is there a screen reader that you find works better for you compared to others?

You need to find some good OCR software. You'll get more functionality and better accessibility on a computer though.

I see that's super interesting. Couple of follow up questions:
- How would you access something like a figure or a graph? Is there language that is designed for something other than having the figure description read?
- Are conferences "good" about accommodating vision impairment? I suppose some are probably better than others, but what has been the best in your experience?

I did my MSc in CS. Mainly used emacs with emacspeak on my mac, as i used that for development and reading papers.

Also used my iPad Pro a lot for general additional reading and first draft writing inside voiceDream Writer

Thanks for the reply! Coming from a place where I don't have a lot of lived experience with blind or vision impaired persons so its interesting for me to hear about.

As a follow up, do you find that screen readers vs having something read by a friend or colleague allows you to retain more information? Does the cadence, tone, pacing affect your information retention a lot?