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Full History - 2020 - 11 - 01 - ID#jm1bo5
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People who cook often on this subreddit how do y’all see small printed things recipes etc? (self.Blind)
submitted by Aschl2130
DrillInstructorJan 3 points 2y ago
JAWS.
Aschl2130 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I meant more recipes on power I apologize that I wasn’t that clear my plan in life is to work in a professional kitchen and that’s one thing I’ve kinda had a roadblock with
IronDominion 2 points 2y ago
It depends on the person. Assistive tech, magnifiers, etc.

Also, please do some basic research before posting, we get stuff like this a lot and it’s annoying. We’re not your lab rats
Aschl2130 [OP] 3 points 2y ago
I wasn’t meaning it like that I’m a visually impaired person myself I just was curious on how some other people did it I apologize if it came off that way
OddRedd 2 points 2y ago
I guess it depends on how much you still see. If it's just really small printed stuff like ingredients on a package then I would suggest you try Google Lookout/SeeingAI/Envision AI. All three Apps offer similar functionality where you can just point your camera at some text and it will do an OCR (optical character recognition) and read it to you. The last one I testet was Google Lookout and it was really fast.

If it's whole recipes I'd probably recommend getting to know the accessibility features of your phone so you could have it read them to you.

Those would be acoustic methods. The phones accessibility settings also has things like zoom and color inversion which tend to be helpful for a lot of people with visual impairments.

I could see all of those methods being a little tricky in a professional envirenment however. As fas as I know that is a really stressfull environment even for normal sighted people. It certainly has to be a really efficient method so it's probably worth really training with whatever you work.
Aschl2130 [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Thank you
siriuslylupin6 1 points 2y ago
Maybe a magnifier? What about trying to read the recipes on your phone?
Ant5477 1 points 2y ago
See if this interests you

https://youtu.be/eX6HMs1tWeU
LadyAlleta 1 points 2y ago
I don't know if you read Braille or not, but I found I can put a page protector on a sheet of card stock and Braille out things that will stay on the page prorecters. This way I can have a recipe that I can feel without having to worry about getting dirty or stuff spilled on.
CosmicBunny97 1 points 2y ago
Certain websites like Taste Of Home works well with VoiceOver on a Mac. I also use SeeingAI to find stuff like packet mixes or herb shaker things.
OutWestTexas 1 points 2y ago
I have used the Be My Eyes App to read labels.
Marconius 1 points 2y ago
Find ways to digitize the recipes. At the Lighthouse here in San Francisco, the teaching kitchen had an iPad running with VoiceOver that allowed us to pull up recipes, plus what we were given were plain text files we could pull up on our phones in email. I regularly cook by googling recipes and navigating through recipe sites. If the kitchen staff has a word document or plain text file they use to keep track of recipes, then you'll be set if you are trained in assistive technology. There are also portable CCTV devices like the Ruby which you can hold up to a document like a menu or any text and adjust the contrast, invert colors, magnify the text, change the color representation entirely, and all done of a handheld device you can keep in a pocket. Plus all phones these days give you cameras and camera apps which essentially do the same thing. Hold your camera up to the text and zoom in on it to read it.
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