Home-Based Tech Tools: What Really Helps When You Have Vision Loss

Well, it's interesting.

A, a lot of people think because I'm into my tech that my home is absolutely buzzing with technology i- in every corner, and it, it actually isn't.

I tend to keep my smart home quite simple, and there's a good reason for that.

I don't live here alone, Ricky.

I have a wife who, you know, isn't as techy and wants to be able to use the technology as well.

And so I have to think about, and it's important actually when I'm doing it, and it helps me when I'm doing the show because I think, "Okay, is..." You know, I might get excited about the latest, greatest thing, but is she gonna find this interesting?

Mm-hmm.

Is she going to enjoy this? Is she gonna want to use it? Is she gonna be able to understand to use it? It needs to be simple.

It needs to be uncomplicated.

Not because, you know, she's incapable of learning all this or doing it, it's just that she doesn't, she's not as techy as I am.

You know, she's not into it in the same way.

And so-

Yeah

... she just wants to, you know, press a button and a light comes on, and press the button, the light goes off.

And what she doesn't want to happen is that when she presses the button, the light doesn't turn on and doesn't turn off.

So i- it's about compatibility with everyone in the home.

It's also about something that's consistently good and functions well.

And of course then we can talk about accessibility of tools.

And I have to say, the more you talk, the more you get into that discussion, the amount of options does narrow, because y- you're trying to find accessible tools out of the box that are available, that are not going to cost the earth, are difficult.

It's difficult to do that, you know? So, so I, I, I have the standard, if you like, smart speaker, as I would refer to her as Lady A.