A good few years back she starts a company selling stuff for blind people as well as people with little site etc. This business as been going very well and was this year (or last year i forget) sold to a bigger company, however they asked her and everyone else that worked for the company to stay on and work for them which is now what she is doing.
Not to long ago the big company was asked by apple to work with them on accessibility (allowing blind people etc. to use there products easily) on there new IPhone 3GS and snow leopard OSX. So this is why my grandma has a IPhone 3GS as they would like her to learn how to use it and tell apple ways to improve it.
So there is the why, now the how is a little harder to explain so at the bottom of this post is a video that shows you just down it works, really its just the first bit that's what we are interested in but it shows all.
We spent most of the day teaching her how to use it, she still hasn't get got it but is getting there as after all its very hard to work it if you cant see what is on the screen. There are also still some bugs like it all not always say whats on the screen, which really didn't help but that's why shes using it to work out whats wrong with it. After a long days teaching she then sent a quick email to the guy in charge of accessibility at Apple asking him a few things and telling him the bugs we found out, so you never know they might fix it.
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