[Trainer-talk] Novartis Releases Free iOS App for the Visually Impaired

[Jack Mitchell]

I have only played with it a little bit, but I am rather under impressed
with its voiceover accessibility (and even with it without voiceover).  It
is ostensibly self voicing, but even the built in voice didn't read
everything particularly well.  It wasn't able to recognize a $1 bill nor a
$100 either from full frame (where it could see the whole bill) nor from a
closer view, and it misrecognized the $1 as a $2 the one time that it
recognized it at all.  The magnifier app isn't accessible at all with
voiceover -- voiceover announces that you should be able to adjust the
magnification slider with a flick up or down, but it doesn't actually work.
The only way I was able to get it to adjust was by turning voiceover off.
Also, any directions that they give in the tutorial aren't applicable to
someone using voiceover.

It's a great idea, but it really needs work.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:02 PM, David Goldfield via Trainer-talk <
trainer-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> VioptaDaily sounds like the name of a pharmaceutical product. In fact,
> it's produced by Novartis, which is a pharmaceutical manufacturer.
> However, Vioptadaily is not a drug but is, instead, an iOS app to provide
> some nice accessibility to the visually impaired. Not only that, Novartis
> is giving it away for free in the app store, so no medical insurance is
> required. They seem rather progressive; in 2011, they were reported to have
> produced flu vaccines which do not use aborted fetal cell lines, which is
> both morally correct as well as scientifically sound. I have not yet
> downloaded their app but I certainly plan to, without suffering any
> unpleasant side effects in the process. http://www.engadget.com/2014/
> 12/02/simple-accessibility-app-makes-the-visual-world-audible/
>
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