BLINDSQUARE
BlindSquare is the world’s
BRAILLE REFERENCE
A VoiceOver compatible app
that allows users who are blind
to look up those many times
hard to remember Braille
symbols and contractions.
Users have the option to search
for more than 250 Braille symbols and contractions. You can
either search by a letter
(ex. a or about) or by dots/
contraction (ex. 1 or ab).
www.nwmobiledev.com
>> $0.99
most popular accessible GPS-app
developed for the blind and
visually impaired. It describes
the environment, announces
points of interest and street
intersections as you travel. In
conjunction with free, third-party navigation apps it is a powerful
solution providing most of the
information blind and visually
impaired people need to travel
independently.
www.blindsquare.com
>> $39.99
COLOR IDENTIFIER
Color Identifier uses the camera on
your iPhone or iPod touch to speak
the names of colours in real-time.
It's a new Augmented Reality app
for discovering the names of the
colours around you!
The colour names are fun a nd specific: Paris Daisy, Lavender Rose,
Moon Mist, and many more.
It can be a useful app for the blind
and visually impaired, but I think
it's fun for everyone.
It will also tell you the hex value of
the colour, so you can identify exactly what colour the camera sees.
http://greengar.com
>> $4.99
ISIMULATOR BY CNIB
Use your phone’s built-in camera to take photos that show
how the most common eye diseases in Canada – age-related
macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and
cataracts – can affect your vision. Using the app, you can
adjust the intensity of the selected eye disease to reflect the
progression of vision loss a person may experience.
www.cnib.ca
>>Free
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