Hi,
What is the name of the app again?
Thanks,
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Terrie Arnold
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 5:15 PM
To: Adaptive technology information and support.
Subject: Re: [ATI] [Nfbmo] News Story Danish App 'lends sight to the blind'
Document this app works really well as I tried it yesterday I had two boxes
of crackers not knowing what kind they were and the barcode wasn't reading
well so use this and the person I talked to was in Tennessee and told me
what the two different boxes were she even told me to turn one of them
upside down that it was upside down and very quick response and use it
against
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On Darrel Vickers <[email protected]> wrote:
I have read about this app and it sounds like a great idea, though I have
not tried it yet.
Thank You,
Darrel Vickers,
president, Adaptive Technology
http://ati.moblind.org
Please also Visit me and my friends at: Woodworking for the Blind
http://ww4b.org
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From: ATI [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nancy Lynn
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 5:56 PM
To: ATI List; mcb chat
Subject: [ATI] [Nfbmo] News Story Danish App 'lends sight to the blind'
from Nancy Lynn [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Flasar via Nfbmo
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Nfbmo] News Story - Danish App 'lends sight to the blind' -
whatdo
you think?
;Hi all,
Below, I've inserted the text from an article from The Huffington
Post. I'll include a link at the end but HuffPo isn't the most blind
-friendly of sites. What do you think of this app?
Included text begins now:
A new app lets you -- yes, you -- help the blind see.
Copenhagen-based app _Be My Eyes_ (http://www.bemyeyes.org/) , which
launched on Thursday, connects blind people and sighted people through
their iPhones and iPads. Here's how it works: If you're blind, you can
sign
up for the service and reach out to sighted users through a live video
connection on the app. Once connected, blind users can ask sighted users
questions over video chat. If you're sighted, you can sign up to help
blind
users.
If you're a sighted user and you get a request, it will come through your
phone as a push notification with a ringing sound. If you tap the
notification, you'll be connected and a video will pop up, showing
whatever
the blind user is filming. You'll also be able to hear him or her speak
and
ask a question.
Sighted users might be asked to help navigate a new place, read a sign or
label, or help in some other way. One example of how someone might use
the
app is to help distinguish between two cans of food:
(illustration of 2 different cans of food) Both iPhones and iPads have
services built in to help blind users. You can _use VoiceOver for iOS_
(https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ios/voiceover/) to get your iPhone
or
iPad to help you navigate your screen, type, read, use apps and more.
Since you're connected to each other via live video, there are obviously
some ways in which users could abuse the system. "Both the blind person
and
the sighted person are allowed to report each other for misuse," Be My
Eyes
co-founder and CEO Thelle Kristensen told The Huffington Post in a phone
interview on Friday. If you get reported enough times, you won't be able
to
connect to anyone through the app anymore.
If you're a sighted user and a notification appears but you don't answer
it, the request will simply go to someone else. As of now, there are
currently more than 17,800 sighted people and 1,500 blind people using the
app, according to the Be My Eyes website. More than 2,900 pairs of blind
and
sighted people have been connected so far.
"Not every helper has gotten a call yet," Kristensen said. "We hope to
see
that picking up more and more."
The entire service is free, and Be My Eyes is a nonprofit. It's only
available on iOS devices for now, but you can_ request to be notified_
(http://bemyeyes.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e7bc4d93c409f117307da5764&i
d=6715c5a0e
a) when the Android app is available.
(embedded video not copyable)
Here's the link to the story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/be-my-eyes-app_n_6488230.html
Dan
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http://moblind.org/membership/affiliates/adaptive_technology
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A special interest affiliate of the Missouri Council of the Blind
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