[Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device

[Ashley Bramlett]

Andy,
Your post was helpful. Of the scanning aps you mentioned, any one of them 
more accurate?
Which Aps are free? What gps aps do you use for navigation?
Also, isn't there a money identification free ap?

Thanks.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Baracco, Andrew W
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:13 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device

Kendra,

Some of what you say is simply not true.

There are many blind people who are successfully using their iPhone for OCR, 
color identification, and scanning bar codes. Apps being used by blind folks 
for OCR include Say text, Text Detective, and Prizmo. There is an app called 
Color Visor that does a fair job of color identification, and an app called 
Digit-Eyes that will read bar code info. Using the iPhone for tasks like OCR 
presents some of the same issues that are presented by using the KNFB 
Reader, namely, holding the device at the precise distance and angle 
required to get a good picture. There is a new product called the Standscan 
that has been designed to address this problem. It is basically a box with 
one side open. You place your iPhone or whichever device that you use for 
this purpose on the top. There is a hole that lines up with the camera lens 
on the device. The device sits about 12 inches above the bottom of the box. 
You slide the reading material into the bottom of the box. The Pro model has 
built in LED lights that are powered by either batteries or a AC adapter is 
included. After placing the device and the reading material in their places, 
you launch the OCR app and follow its instructions to take the picture. The 
Standscan Pro costs about $30. I have both an iPhone 5 and a KNFB reader, 
and find the results of scans to be about equal.
As for GPS, at this time there is no accessible solution that gives you all 
of the capabilities of a product like Sendero for the Braillenote, but this 
will soon change, as Sendero will soon be releasing a product for the 
iPhone. But if all you need is information about where you are and what is 
around you, there is a plethora of free or very inexpensive apps that 
provide this info.

Kendra, I am curious as to whether or not your comments come from your own 
experience, or what someone told you.  In any event, the information you 
imparted in your post is wrong, and could give someone the wrong idea about 
the capabilities of the iPhone.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
Behalf Of Kendra Schaber
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:10 PM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device

There are no accessable scanning apps for blind people that I know of. The 
best GPS app is called GPS Drive. There are no good bar coad reading apps 
that I know of. I also don't know of a good color app. I do know of a good 
object identafier app called Tap Tap See which if you take a picture, it 
tells you what you got for a picture. The object of this app is to help you 
find objects around the house or while you are in a place that doesn't allow 
you to explore in other ways besides site.
Kendra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
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Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 6:23 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] aps for IOS device


> Hi all,
>
> For those of you using an I device, which free aps do you find helpful?
> Are there aps for scanning, bar code recognition, and color
> identification?
> How about GPS aps?
>
> I’m asking because I intern in a section 508 office and they want to
> do an outreach session on accessible aps for disabled people. This
> includes blindness and two other disabilities.
>
> Thanks.
> Ashley
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