Empowering the visually impaired with neat visual codes
Empowering the visually impaired with neat visual codes
I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc... neat!
EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we're discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.
Oh, I thought this was a joke.
18 1 ReplyYeah but no. I think, in a way, they're having your phone's camera assist you if you can't see well.
6 0 ReplyYeah, it looks like it's both more detailed navigation for sighted people, and geared towards helping people with difficulty seeing.
Wish it didn't look like to be a proprietary code format, since that severely limits it's viability as a widespread thing.
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Seems like it should at least be embossed, have some sort of texture cue no??
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I'm disappointed the London underground is using this proprietary thing, rather than QR codes, which have existed forever and are an open standard.
16 0 Replyoh is that what these are? I saw something like this on a train station in Boston the other day, assumed it was some new kind of QR code or something
8 0 ReplyI looked them up after seeing them on trams in Melbourne.
3 0 ReplyThats cool & looks useful for alot of people. Type of app my grandma would use for fine print on products.
I hope the doomers didnt get you down too much. Open source is great, but options like this are still better than nothing :)
4 1 Replyalso, they place the WAI/WCAG banner but the webpage does not validate :PPP nice project tho, fuck the nerds
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