Leveling the playing field with apps
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Leveling the playing field with apps
An opportunity to level the playing field for diverse learners has arrived. With the use of mobile devices and a set of apps, barriers to learning can be removed and will set the stage for access to learning for ALL learners.
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Georgie App: Helps Visually Impaired Android Users Navigate Everyday Life

Georgie App: Helps Visually Impaired Android Users Navigate Everyday Life | Leveling the playing field with apps | Scoop.it

"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 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, which direction they're facing, or the ability to set location-based reminders.

 

It also reads out text, such as ingredients on a label, using a technology called optical character recognition (OCR)."

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Apps For The Blind And Visually Impaired: iPad/iPhone Apps AppList

Apps For The Blind And Visually Impaired: iPad/iPhone Apps AppList | Leveling the playing field with apps | Scoop.it
"It has been said that technology has made the world smaller, but for the blind or those with poor vision, iDevices are opening up a whole new world. This AppList highlights some of the most innovative and entertaining apps available to the vision impaired. Now, with the aid of an iPhone, the blind can virtually see color, light, paper money and much more."
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VizWiz App - Enabling blind people to recruit sighted workers in real time

VizWiz App - Enabling blind people to recruit sighted workers in real time | Leveling the playing field with apps | Scoop.it

Developed by the Rocheseter Human Computer Interaction, VizWiz is an iPhone (and now an iPad) application aimed at enabling blind people to recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in nearly real-time.

 

Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers. VizWiz is used as a tool to explore human-backed access technology - the idea that access technology would be more reliable and useful if humans could back up fragile (but fast and cheap) automatic approaches. With services like Mechanical Turk, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and everyone connected at all times on their mobile devices -- the human cloud is ready and waiting; we just need to figure out how to harness them to do useful work!

 

Did I say, it is FREE!

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