[Electronics-talk] Apps for IOS device

Ashley Bramlett bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 1 03:15:01 UTC 2013


Jim,
What does blindsquare do? Sounds like it was made for blind people with the 
word blind in it.

Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Barbour
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:21 AM
To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Cc: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Apps for IOS device

I also really like BlindSquare for navigation

Jim

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 24, 2013, at 8:11 PM, "Kaye" <kayezimpher at comcast.net> wrote:

> There are a few good navigation apps. Navigon is one. Other apps such as 
> "around me" are good for finding out what is around the area you are in, 
> or looking up numbers and address of places of interest.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: David Andrews
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2013 8:00 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Apps for IOS device
>
> Some people are also successfully using the iOS app Text Grabber for OCR.
>
> Dave
>
> At 11:13 AM 3/22/2013, you wrote:
>> 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"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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