For the Blind, the iPhone is a Life-Changer
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The announcement of a new phone that only had one button caused a great deal of concern in the blind community. Touching a piece of glass, after all, makes it hard to know what command you’re giving.
Since then, an entire community has been built, leveraging the iPhone’s flexible platform as a mechanism to greatly enrich the lives of blind people. Voice commands, apps for translating text to speech – even a tool that allows a blind person to submit a photo of his outfit and receive information about what colors they plan to wear. The link between the blind community and iPhone development is so strong, that a blind person was featured in initial ads for Siri.
Read more at The Atlantic.
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