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Seeing AI is primarily used to describe short text, documents, products, people, currency scenery, colors, handwriting and light. [5] The app can scan a barcode to describe a product [6] and uses sounds to assist the user in focusing on the barcode. [7]
Be My Eyes is a Danish mobile app that aims to help blind and visually impaired people to recognize objects and cope with everyday situations. An online community of sighted volunteers receive photos or videos from randomly assigned affected individuals and assist via live chat. The app is currently available for Android and iOS. [1] [2]
Seeing Assistant move is developed by Transition Technologies S.A. and was first released in March 2013. It is the only GPS app designed for blind and visually impaired people that lets the user operate the app through predefined speech commands. It is based on OpenStreetMap and supports the following features: Announcing current location of user
Walkfit's aim is to increase awareness surrounding visually impaired pedestrians. "The goal [of the app] is to promote more security for those who are visually impaired to feel more confident to ...
The New York Times described how a pre-release OrCam device was used by a Coloboma-impaired employee of the device's developer in 2013 [7] for grocery shopping. It was the small size of the prototype rather than the functionality that gave her added mobility in an Israeli store's aisles.
Visually impaired people will be able to experience the total solar eclipse as it happens via a tactile tablet at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. How the blind can feel the solar eclipse in real time ...
Assistive technology for navigation has expanded on the IEEE Xplore database since 2000, with over 7,500 engineering articles written on assistive technologies and visual impairment in the past 25 years, and over 1,300 articles on solving the problem of navigation for people who are blind or visually impaired. As well, over 600 articles on ...
A relatively new development in the field is web-based applications like Spoken-Web that act as web portals, managing content like news updates, weather, science and business articles for visually-impaired or blind computer users. [citation needed] Other examples are ReadSpeaker or BrowseAloud that add text-to-speech functionality to web content.