In this podcast, Scott Davert shows us the features available with MFi supported hearing aids or Cochlear Implant processors from the perspective of a VoiceOver user. MFi compatible hearing aids come from many manufacturers and there are numerous models supported. You can see Apple's official support page which gives a fairly accurate account of which hearing aids have MFi support. However, this article has not been updated since October 2018, so anything newer than that will not be listed on this page.
For more general information about hearing aids from a blindness perspective, you can listen to this Accessibility Moving Forward podcast featuring some familiar voices to AppleVis.
Finally, there is a mailing list for blind hearing aid users that you can join by sending a blank email to [email protected].
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Very useful
Scott,
Another great podcast from you. Thank you, sir.
Five weeks ago, I started testing hearing aids for myself and I sure would have found this podcast handy at the time. Even now, after a lot of personal exploration, I still found the information you shared helpful and pertinent.
I believe the pair I decided to purchase will arrive this week. I do enjoy hearing so much better and am really glad that my iPhone works with them. I hope we will all see more Applevis articles and podcasts about hearing aid issues for our community.
Again, thanks for your efforts,
Morgan
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Thank you Scott. I just found this while searching for something else here on the mighty AppleVis, and am looking forward to listening to it. The Accessibility Moving Forward link you provided brings up a "file not found" page for me, but I just subscribed to the hearing-aid users mailing list. I became a hearing-aid user last summer, and got mine at Costco upon my father's recommendation from personal experience. Mine are working great, but cleaning them out seems to be a different story. It's wonderful though to be able to control them right within the settings of iOS. The Jabra Enhance app seems to be rather inaccessible even with VO Recognition features turned on.