Hello everyone. I am returning to Justin Guitar and starting over. I was born legally blind with optic atrophy. My left eye measures 20/800 and not measurable in the right. I live on a fixed disability income. I am very grateful for this website being offered like it is. Thank you to Justin and the team for providing this resource. It means a great deal to me. I have a budget acoustic guitar from Orangewood. It is an all laminate guitar kit with tuner, capo, thin picks, and gig bag. I have a stand for it and extra Daddario light gauge strings. My goal in general is to have fun. Play as a hobby, for therapy, a way to express and feel emotions. I attempted guitar before but life got in the way. All that is behind me know. Thank you again for providing this great system of learning for those who want to learn but could not afford it otherwise. Thank you for the honor system format.
Welcome back to the new community Paul
Welcome back Paul; enjoy your stay! 
Hi Paul good to see you moving over to a new platform! How are you, did you practice all this time all you had a little break?
In a nutshell I have to do more family care than normal. Family member in hospital on ventilator for weeks. I stopped the guitar at that point. I went with something easier to learn, the ukulele. At that time I was using the ukulele to help deal with emotions. That is behind me now. I want to get back on acoustic guitar. It is like starting over in a way.
Oh hopefully your family member is okay now and glad to hear you are able to get back to a guitar again 
Thank you very much. One step at a time. Music is such a great thing. I think it will be hard work, yet very rewarding.
Good to see you back Paul and that you have crossed over to the new house ! 
Glad you’ve joined us over on the new site Paul and pleased to hear you’re back into guitar.
Thank you very much. This really is a wonderful community.
Hello Paul and welcome to the new place.
Thank you everyone for the welcome. This will be work but it will also be rewarding.
Good to see you hear again, Paul, and back into guitar!
Thank you very much.
Hi, really great if you could reply, but I’m also blind, relying on VoiceOver on my IOS iPhone for access, and the JustinGuitar app is totally inaccessible. Even the opening login page is not accessible so I can’t even begin to access beginner lessons or any details. So, curious how you are using this platform as I am also very keen to improve and advance my very basic initial guitar skills. Can you suggest where I can find audio instruction on strumming / chord finger positioning? Regards, Brian
Hi Paul, welcome back to the community forum.
Hi Brian ( @TandemBrian ) welcome to the community. I’m not blind, but my vision makes it more difficult to use via iPhone. I use the Justin Guitar website on a larger screen for most of my instruction. You don’t need to log into to website to use the lessons. You only need to log in if you want to track your progress. If you are able to start up the beginning lessons for the D and A chords, Justin audibly calls out the position of the fingers and you can feel your finger locations by the string thickness and the raised frets. Justin will say for example to place your first finger in the third string and the second fret. Of course, it would still be nice for Musopia to add accesabiliity features to the JG app. I am also interested in hearing what @BlindFarmer has to say.
For songs, the website song tutorials are much better than the app for learning. Justin calls out the chords as he plays them. Hopefully, your software will allow you to navigate the website but since all the lessons are in YouTube, you could also search for Justin and the lesson name such as How to Play the D chord or How to Play the A chord. The same is true for all the song tutorials. An example is the two chord song Feelin Alright tutorial. Later on Justin tries to tell everyone not to look at your guitar, but play by feel with the fingers next to the frets. You’ll have an advantage and start out playing right. The best guitar playing is just using your ears and playing by feel. There have been some great blind guitar players. With practicer you will be able to play anything. Have fun.
Hi Steve, great response and appreciate your encouragement. I’ll pursue the web site material then and it sounds like it will work much better for me. My son described the app and how it works, which sounds very advanced, showing graphics on the fret board for the notes as the music progresses. Ideal for sighted beginners. I’ll find my own path using the web site and Justin is a great guy if its all freely available too. Many thanks for your message again! Brian
Hi again Steve, anyone, not sure if you will know the answer, but do you know which browser works best for following the beginners training course/modules, and for navigating through each video step by step?
I’m using a screenreader on my Windows desktop to navigate the website, which works well, but I know different sites behave better in Firefox, Chrome, Edge for example.
Also, if possible, I’d like to avoid triggering Youtube to begin playback as I then have to wait and navigate to find the ‘skip ad’ buttons, or just listen to the whole advert before the lesson can resume.
I’m just unfamiliar so far being new on how the training courses are organised and if by default each video is supposed to be a YouTube video or not.
I have played some of the initial module 0 / module 1 videos fine and for some reason, a video in module began to play back in YouTube. Perhaps it was my fault and I selected the wrong link.
So, excuse my newness to this as the pages are very cluttered right now with links, play/pause, next and other interesting but distracting guitar related link lesson buttons on.
So, in short, can I play the videos within the web site, rather than jumping to YouTube, and which browser is recommended for each video playback, so I can easily play/pause, rewind etc.
It might be dependent on how compatible my JAWS screenreader is with the video playback controls embedded in the browser / web page.
Many thanks
Brian
Hi Brian, I am not sure about the Windows browser, since I use Apple products. I am not sure who would be the best person to answer those questions, but @DavidP is a community moderator and might know the best person at JG. This might make an interesting new discussion post that could be put in the appropriate place in the JG community on JG website usage for the visually impaired. It sounds like you do have an iPhone. Since you don’t need to see the screen, you could try using the default iPhone Safari browser with the JG website. The Justin website is less crowded in iOS on the iPhone and less cluttered and just lists the lessons one after the other on the screen.
Each JG lesson video is played in a window in the lesson page in the JG website in my MacBook or IPad browser along with text below the window that transcribes some of what is said in the video. If you accidentally click or activate the YouTube text button on the bottom right side of the lesson video it goes to YouTube. I usually just click on the browser back arrow to go back to the previous page to start the next lesson.