App makes life easier for the blind
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July 24, 2012, Tuesday
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WHETHER it is getting off a bus or reading a menu, a new app aims to make life easier for the blind or visually impaired.
Called Georgie, the app for Android devices enables people with little or no sight to accomplish daily activities that could be difficult for them.
"The great thing that attracted me to (creating the app) was this notion of gaining confidence, and also having reassurance that you could press a button and get help if you were lost," said Roger Wilson-Hinds, co-founder of Screenreader, a nonprofit organization based in Peterborough, England, that developed the app.
Users navigate the app's features by passing their fingers over various options which are read aloud. Lingering on a particular option produces a beep, indicating that the option has been selected. The app can make calls or send texts but it also provides location-based technologies, which can let users know, for example, when the next bus is coming, or which direction they're facing.
Called Georgie, the app for Android devices enables people with little or no sight to accomplish daily activities that could be difficult for them.
"The great thing that attracted me to (creating the app) was this notion of gaining confidence, and also having reassurance that you could press a button and get help if you were lost," said Roger Wilson-Hinds, co-founder of Screenreader, a nonprofit organization based in Peterborough, England, that developed the app.
Users navigate the app's features by passing their fingers over various options which are read aloud. Lingering on a particular option produces a beep, indicating that the option has been selected. The app can make calls or send texts but it also provides location-based technologies, which can let users know, for example, when the next bus is coming, or which direction they're facing.
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