I asked Sue to try the free Apple app Seeing AI which caused quite a bit of excitement when it was released. It uses the phone’s camera to allow you to identify the world around you, including identifying products, currency and people plus providing text-to-speech capabilities. She found its scene identification feature (still being tested by the developers) to be good but not always – it told her that her husband’s shoes were…
Spoiler Alert – why should you read Sue’s Journal Pages?
After a year of learning how to deal with her visual impairment both physically and emotionally, Sue has a rather ‘normal for her’ life: At age 64 and with advanced AMD geographic atrophy, she works several jobs, attends regular exercise classes, rides her bike safely, travels, walks her dog, kayaks, attends social events with her friends. We are not suggesting that reading her journal will ensure you the same results but we hope that Sue’s Journal of Her Journey will be educational and inspirational.
We’ve compiled the first part of a series of Sue’s Best Pages. If you don’t think you are ready to tackle all 500 of them, here’s our suggestion of where to start.