visionimpaired

Apple and Amazon reveal accessibility features for the vision-impaired

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US tech giants Amazon and Apple have announced new accessibility features for their technology aimed to help people with impaired vision.  Amazon’s new feature, called Show and Tell, helps blind and partially sighted people identify common household grocery items.  The feature, which launches in the UK today, works with Amazon’s Echo Show range – devices that … Read more

Google is testing an AI-powered app that helps vision-impaired people run without assistance

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Google is testing a new app that will allow blind people to run on their own without a guide dog or human assistant.  Project Guideline uses a phone’s camera to track a guideline on a course and then sends audio cues to the user via bone-conducting headphones. If the runner strays too far from the … Read more