According to Stuart Ball this free Seeing AI iPhone or iPad app has multiple benefits for those with visual impairments or who are blind. It has been developed by Microsoft so has the ‘swiss army knife approach’ according to AccessWorld to telling you about the world around you. It searches out light sources, identifies colours and money and describes them using text to speech. It will recognise a person is approaching and offer a description. Barcodes can be read and optical character recognition is used for documents etc. Clear handwriting can be deciphered and scenes described.
Another college student called Veronica in USA has provided a very helpful Seeing AI review from a blind student’s point of view
Microsoft have produced a YouTube video about the Seeing AI app.
Thank you so much Stuart for providing this strategy.
Stuart Ball is an Assessor at the Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Even though you could have colour filters on the Android and your desktop it has only been possible on the iPhone and iPad since the introduction of iOS 10. These filters can be useful for dulling the screen, offering different choices of colour overlay for those with colour deficiencies or visual stress. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Colour Filters. Turn them on and there is a choice of filters with the names of different colour deficencies such as Protanopia Red/Green filter. Go to the bottom of the list and there you will find the colour tint that allows you to choose a hue and the intensity to suit your preference.
