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Accessibility shortcuts help you control your Mac with a keyboard or assistive device. You can also ask Siri to help with some accessibility features. Mac accessibility shortcuts. With Voice Control, you can navigate and interact with your device by using your voice to tap, swipe, type, and more. Cortical blindness can occur for small or large portions of the visual field, depending on the size and location of the brain lesion. Often there is cortical blindness for half of the visual field, to the left or right of both eyes but it is also possible that only one quadrant or an even smaller area is affected. Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex, also known as the primary visual cortex or V1, to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see. The term was coined by Lawrence Weiskrantz and his colleagues in a paper published in Brain in 1974. A similar paper in which the discriminatory capacity of a cortically blind patient. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Favorites to watch. Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex, also known as the primary visual cortex or V1, to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see. The term was coined by Lawrence Weiskrantz and his colleagues in a paper published in Brain in 1974.
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Get supportA May 22 2021 invitation
Opened to all interested persons across North America and beyond!
Date: Saturday May 22 2021
Time: 1 pm Eastern
Title: Let’s talk Apple
World renowned Apple trainer and consultant John Panarese and
Apple Certified support professional Donna Jodhan
Are pleased to announce the following special event
On May 22 John and Donna will be hosting a very special and unique event!
A Zoom session to give you the chance to share your thoughts and suggestions as to how Apple can further enhance and improve its products to meet the requirements of blind and vision impaired persons and for you to share some of your dreams and visions as to how we can foster more collaboration with Apple.
We are very excited about this event as it is probably one of the first of its kind.
We are hoping to attract many participants and because we want to ensure maximum participation we will limit the number of persons signing up to 50 and should there be a demand from more than this then we would be happy to host more than one zoom session.
Description
John and Donna will host a 90 minute session consisting of three segments.
Segment one will last for approximately 40 minutes where you will have a chance to share your thoughts and comments with others about the Mac.
Tell us what you think could be another revolution or enhancement or challenge that Apple should be aware of.
Segment two will last for approximately 30 minutes where you will have a chance to share your thoughts and comments with others.
In this session we will turn your attention to IOS devices and ask for your input in a similar manner to segment one.
Segment three will be one where the floor will be opened to your questions directed to John and Donna.
You will have an opportunity to ask any of your favourite questions.
All of your feedback will be shared with Apple and rest assured that identities of respondents will be kept strictly confidential.
To register, please send an email to john@macfortheblind.com no later than noon Eastern on Friday May 21.
Zoom details will be sent to you closer to the date of May 22 2021
We look forward to welcoming you to our May 21 2021 Zoom session.