C-ur-able with Jenny Webster

https://youtu.be/fWqQoN3lhJQ?si=ccP9lfI5zSSIL47k

Find the right colour filter for your magnifier. I found mine...
fight under my nose...literally, 'cos my nose is usually 3cm from the screen.

All these fabulous free functions are there, it is about being aware. Setting up smart devices for visually impaired or aging clients can be really empowering for increasing independence in communication and tasks of daily living.

Let us know if you would like to be part of our Train the Trainer workshop, whether you are a Health care professional with interest in Low Vision, an Orientation and Mobility Trainer, a service provider in the retirement industry or a family member of someone losing their central vision.

Here for you.

Low Vision Care Centre Low Vision Service 50 Plus-Skills Retina SA - A cure in sight
Shonaquip Social Enterprise
Padperch

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My phone sees for me.

It‘s always uplifting to help people with age related macular degeneration discover how their phones can help them see. Here we were training a 78 year young lady who was eager to learn. She was thrilled with the purchase of a PadPerch ® in order to use her phone hands-free as a magnifier for her artwork. She said, “It's like Christmas in July!" and it does not cost tens of thousands.

Thanks to Shonaquip Social Enterprise for the secure supply of PadPerch®️ due to local manufacture in South Africa.

If Low Vision specialists or Retirement Industry partners are keen to have their own therapeutic assistants trained on phone use with the PadPerch®️, contact us Curable

Innovating in Africa for Africa

Sharing this wonderful opportunity to pitch our innovations to investors at the enable Inclusive Africa Conference Africa conference in Nairobi was a real privilege and many meaningful connections were made.

The experience was made richer by getting to know the young brains who have big hearts for people with disabilities. I was amazed to be included, as a older adult who has an innovation which can help people of all ages who need electronic magnification. "inclusion" in practice as we shared our passion for user based solutions.

Here are Maxwell Kamau from Zerobionic, Goitseone Carol Matsididi from MCIPS Chartered, Carol from Revision and Brian Gillo from Sytra and me from Curable making memories as we continue to invent, learn, pivot and scale products that love people.

Shonaquip Social Enterprise for Paid Members of 50Plus-Skills and Low Vision Centre of Learning (LVCOL)

I’m thrilled to be heading back to Kenya for the next phase of this training program.

Thanks to FCDO’s sponsorship of the Disability Innovation Hub at University College London, we’ll be piloting PadPerch in Nairobi over the next two months.

We look forward to working with occupational therapists and assistive technology trainers. Our hands-on sessions will focus on adapting mobile devices for use as electronic magnifiers and OCR scanners for users with a range of low-vision conditions.

We’re eager to learn from every session while we train assistants to gather real-world feedback as they tailor settings for their Low Vision Clients.

Above all, we believe this simple innovation can make a meaningful difference for artisans and crafters losing their sight due to ageing or other eye conditions.

Thank you Senses Hub for partnering with us on this exciting project.

I am honoured to be exhibiting at the Inclusive Africa Conference 2026, where leaders, innovators, and advocates will gather to accelerate digital accessibility and AI solutions for Africa's future.

📍 Location: JW Marriot, Nairobi, Kenya
📅 Date: 2nd – 4th June 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm EAT daily

Register at www.inclusiveafrica.org

Have you noticed that it is the smallest steps that cause people to stumble?

This busy little stairwell had hospital staff hurrying up and down them in various coloured uniforms, performing the necessary timeous tasks required in a health care facility. In-between these were visitors, older people, loved ones carrying flowers and bags, and a few visually impaired people too.

My central vision loss allows me to move quite fast to cover my blind spots. So, not wanting to hold people up, I found this bottom step very irritating. It was difficult to know if I was actually on the ground floor or stepping onto another little confusing step.

On our last visit, I swung around, took out my phone, and took a quick shot (notice my white cane in the shadow). Once home, I put the image through AI and prompted it to extend the hard-wearing vinyl flooring to the bottom edge of the face of the lowest step.

The image on the right, enlarged 28x on my monitor, would have given me a lot more visual peace. I would have been a lot more confident recognising the first step on my way up and it would have been significantly easier coming down too. There would have been a definite contrast between the last step and the ground floor landing.

If it were a race, which steps would you choose to run up?

Not everyone is sight impaired, but many wear bifocals or even trifocals, meaning that when you are walking down stairs there is a good chance the lower edge of your lenses, often made for reading, could make descending stairs more stressful.

When people are stressed, the brain responds by heightening central vision focus and narrowing peripheral vision. Clear design lines, contrasts, and lighting go a long way to making a building feel peaceful or complicated. In a hospital there is a greater need for accessibility and peaceful design, from parking bays, ticket machines, signage, decor, and interiors that make people feel confident and safe.

If you are a stair user, which steps, where, make you hesitate and why?

Cleverly used tiles, skirtings, wall colours, panelling, and edging can make a building beautiful and easy to use for everyone.
Fixing irritating issues like this one would be expensive and unsightly. It is important to iron out these details in the planning phase for architecture and interior design. Accessibility can be done tastefully if included from the start.

Awareness unlocks inclusion. Begin with the end in mind.

Ready, steady, go!

From delivery notes to dispatch, agreements to accounting, banking to governance. Owning a business is crazy, exhilarating, and at times exhausting. But...

After years of iterations from customer feedback and promising units "coming soon," this time I decided to wait until the products were in my hands before starting the marketing.

Reseller agreements being negotiated, website plug-ins, and dispatch integrations. It's all part of the entrepreneur roller coaster. And keeping accessibility in place is an ever-moving goal as technologies update.

Now the marketing journey begins. It's time to build a team around me, especially because my disability makes office work a shadow gift. Give me colour, movement, and communication, and I'll be in my (blindish) sweet spot. The encouragement from customers and healthcare professionals with a special interest in low vision has kept me going.

The journey to earning is a parallel one, which has given the mentors of this "missionary-minded" duckies their share of grey hairs. Thank you to the "people" encouragers.

I take my hat off to anyone who has created a product, knowing the snowball effect it would have on one's learning.

This product is growing me. Now it's time for me to lead the product, hire a capable overseer, and do some aligned consulting services.

You are welcome to watch the risk unfold. Whichever way it goes, I aim to make this process a little more fun.

Alt text for pic: An open Pad box with colourful instructions and three closed boxes behind it.

Shonaquip Social Enterprise SAB Foundation Further Anton Ressel CTUM consulting