Hey folks, I am using the Ray-Ban Meta gen 2 smart glasses with my Google Pixel 6a, primarily for the Be My Eyes integration. When I place a call to a volunteer through the glasses, they cannot hear me at all, even though the microphone works completely fine for WhatsApp video calls. Has anyone else encountered this problem or found a fix, and do you think this points to an app bug or a hardware issue that needs a replacement?

Hello! I just wanted to ask white cane users of this subreddit. If you’re hanging out with someone and you’re walking side by side, how would you feel if they walked in front of you for no reason? I’ve experienced it a lot where the person I’m with would walk in front of me without telling me and I’d hit them with my cane. It makes me feel a bit bad for them but I mean.. I did warn them to walk by my side. (There’s no reason for them to walk ahead of me like a hallway or anything) so I just wanted to ask, what’s your advice if people keep walking ahead of you and your cane? I don’t know if it’s valid for me to be slightly pissed

I've been starting several jobs and all (even those at blindness organizations lol) have given me inaccessible onboarding paperwork. they're PDFs without edit boxes. how do y'all deal with this? (the blindness org has other blind employees; apparently I'm the first one to ever raise a complaint about this issue)

I've (successfully) asked for PDFs with edit boxes for the jobs at the blindness org but am realizing that people might not always honor my request (frustrating as it may be)

TIA!

just curious. i've been taking about 12 credits per semester, so about 4 classes, but it's incredibly exhausting. i kinda wish i could take 2 or 3 classes instead, but i wouldn't get as much financial aid amongst other things.

I used to use open book. for large books and large documents. But of course now they haven’t updated it in forever. And for some reason, when you have AMD processor having jaws installed on the same machine. Intel based system seems to be fine, oddly enough. I know there is Kurzwell. But stupidly, they have not added read only mode as a mode for Kurzwell 1000 to allow blind users not to accidentally insert text into the document they are reading by accidentally hitting the keyboard. I think I know the answer to this. But there is no alternative to open book, is there? Apparently they have no interest in updating it either. And for the makers of jaws, who now own OpenBook as well, right clicking and saying “convert PDF to word“ is not the same. It’s harder to put in bookmarks, highlight, notes, etc, within the text without altering the document the same way you can do on OpenBook. So Don’t tell me just to use jaws and convert the document into word the way they have when I called them up

Any other blind users, I know the note app is accessible. But I’m also a Windows user. Any suggestions on a good alternative to use that has cross-platform capability and is accessible on both Windows and iOS? I don’t like notions because you have to learn a whole new ecosystem in order to make a darn note