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If you couldn't see, those go from trivial to potentially very useful, I'd think - consider "Am I holding a $5 or a $20?"
by blacksmith_tb 2y ago
If you couldn't see, those go from trivial to potentially very useful, I'd think - consider "Am I holding a $5 or a $20?"
- user_7832 2y agoI believe at least on iOS the camera/reader app can already do that. There was a video by BlindSurfer on youtube where he showed the feature.
- dagmx 2y agoThis seems to be a recurring theme. People aren’t aware of what their devices already are capable of. Part of that is because it’s sold as accessibility or out of the way enough that people don’t encounter them regularly. But even then, a lot of the stuff is right there in the photos app (what plant/bug/animal is this) or sign reading and OCR
- the_lucifer 2y ago100%. The iOS vision accessibility APIs are top notch and consistent throughout the system. A simple example, Siri describes the image in the notification if you have announce messages turned on
- danpalmer 2y agoAccessibility is the biggest use-case I can see for all this stuff, and if that's what we get from this wave of AI, then great. But that's not how any of it is being pitched, and the tech itself is not particularly accessibility friendly in other ways so I don't think it's properly on the radar of these companies.