The forthcoming, hopefully, app Breadcrumbs from
Looktel should do just that among other things.
At 12:51 PM 6/17/2013, you wrote:
Some of those are good, and maybe rone day…
I'd like an app that simply reverses wherever
you have walked. So you start it at the point
where you want it started stop at the end and
say reverse. I would find this particularly
useful, say, if I was in the middle of a
restaurant and needed to get out through the door again.
Maybe I will think of some more later. Carol P
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On 17 Jun 2013, at 04:43 PM, "Lisa Larges"
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Hey All,
Every now and then I’ll be doing something as a
blind person that is either really time
consuming, in comparison to the time it would
take for a sighted person to do, or requires
either some elaborate work-around, or finding a sighted person to help me.
In those situations I often think to myself,
“There should be an app that does this.”
So, somewhat in the spirit of the conversation
that was started around using voice recognition
features in new ways, here’s a little list of
apps that I think would be cool to have.
Some of these are doable, and some, are at
least a long way off, but this list is more
about dreaming up possibilities then about practicality.
I’m hoping my list might spark some other folks
ideas about apps or other functionality they
would like as a blind user to have on their
phone. So often, sighted folks have an idea
about what they think would be helpful for
blind people to have; I think it would be great
if we generated the ideas and put them out there.
I’m sure it might happen, but I’m not putting
this little list out there for zealous
nit-picking: “That’s not possible because,” or
“that’s ridiculous because,” etc.
And I’m also not looking for other ways to
accomplish the same tasks. I’m just saying,
“Wouldn’t it be cool if I could use my phone to do … “
Ok, that’s my preamble. Here’s my starter list, add your own.
1. Text Id. The idea is for an app that
would quickly scan an area and pinpoint whether
and where there was text, and then read it.
This would be useful, for instance, in finding
a address on a building, or a sign behind glass, etc.
2. Am I straight. This wouldn’t be an app
for determining one’s sexual orientation, but
would be an easy to use leveler. I know there
are already a couple of audio levelers out
there, and I haven’t checked them recently but
I’ve found them a bit tedious to use. Wouldn’t
it be nice to hold up your phone and have it
tell you “A little higher on the left.” “Ooops,
that’s too much.” I realize that this would
require having some way to determine that the
phone itself was more or less level but …
3. “Does this go with that?” or “Can I go
out wearing this?” As color identifiers get
better it would be great to have an app that
could tell you whether two different colors
complimented each other. So you could know if
that pink shirt went with those russet pants.
4. “Where’s the pooh,” I read recently
that there is now a new external ad on device
for Android that offers other kinds of sensory
gauges. Wouldn’t it be cool to use something
like this to zero in on organic matter.
Sometimes, in the night, I’ll hear my cat go
through his impressive audio wind up before
throwing up a hairball; I’ll get a general idea
of where it is, but it would be nice to have
something like a blacklight to tell me where
exactly the mess is. I don’t have a guide dog
or a dog of any kind, so I don’t know how easy
or onerous it is to find your dog’s deposits,
but wouldn’t it be cool to have a spotter.
5. “O Spot,” similar to the above,
wouldn’t it be nice to have an app to identify
whether you had a spot on that shirt. It could
be used both for checking your clothes before
wearing them out in public, but also for finding spots to apply spot remover.
Alright, that’s what I have so far; would love
to hear other people’s creative ideas!
Lisa
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