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sick-kids-are-cool:

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maroonsparrow:

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Aipoly Vision App helps visually impaired see the world through their smartphone

Can we also talk about how this is the best translation tool for non English speakers? I want this for traveling!

Can we talk about how this is uncaptioned?

Can we be angry that a post about assistive technology for the blind isn’t accessible to the blind?

Because that pisses me off

yeah I wish more people would consider this when they post and I wish I had the capabilities/energy to caption more things but this is something i really feel I need to do so I’ll try to the best of my abilities

[ The first picture says Aipoly is about to release an app that helps the blind “see” through their smart phones, it shows a smart phone viewing a cup and tea pot and saying what they are. 

The second picture says The Aippoly vision app can recognize objects at a speed of 3 times a second, it shows a smart phone using the app in a grocery store reading off soda as “bottles”, “Pepsi” 

The third picture says it can help the visually impaired navigate through their life, it shows the app recognizing a trash bin and a ford vehicle 

the fourth says picture it helps in situations where using your hands to feel objects is not ideal, it shows the phone/app recognizing a toilet and toilet paper

the fifth picture says it also recognizes up to nine-hundred colors making it useful for the sighted and colorblind 

the final picture shows a man using the app, he holds up a pair of ear buds, the phone says you are looking at new apple earbuds. ]

You are fantastic

I’d be really interested to hear what a blind or visually impaired person thought about this.  It looks to me like a sighted developer said “We have this cool object recognition technology.  What can we do with it?  Oh, I know, we can help disabled people, that would be cool, right?!?”  A lot of assistive tech gets developed this way, actually, and only a small portion is actually useful to the target audience. 

I’m suspicious of this app because (1) the original post was obviously created by a sighted person without input from anyone who actually knew about accessibility (as seen by lack of captions), (2) this technology clearly seeks to “replace” vision, instead of addressing specific problems faced by blind/visually impaired people, that is, it views the disability as the problem, and (3) why is the app displaying the words on the screen if it’s aimed at blind users?  If they’re for people with some sight, why aren’t they bigger? For that matter, why run down the battery by displaying a camera feed on the screen?  Surely vibration or sound feedback is way more useful.  (Also, I’ve heard visually impaired people talk about the challenges of using speech output in public.)  Of course, I’m not qualified to evaluate this tech, either.  I’m just suspicious, and I would be really curious about what a “target user” would actually think.