Electronic / Digital magnifying glass |
Applications that use the camera on smartphone and tablet to simulate an electronic magnifying glass. By pointing to a particular object or printed content, it can enlarge and reduce the image captured on the device. |
Supervision+ |
Image freezing and illumination. |
Supervision for cardboard |
Contrast, illumination and image freeze. |
Magnifying glass lantern
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Magnifying glass
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Maglight |
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Magnifier |
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Cellphone Camera
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Text readers |
Audible reader of texts shared with applications. It allows to control the reading speed. |
Voice Dream |
Alters voices, reads in multiple languages, changes text font, highlights lines and words read, highlights excerpts, and inserts comments in text and audio format. |
@Voice |
Allows to paste snippets of web texts, emails and others to be read. Allows to copy content from the application. |
Scanners and OCR programs |
It allows to scan text and/ or convert characters into editable and accessible text through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs. Applications used by the group to scan printed content (texts, cards, signs, etc.), and make them accessible to screen or text readers. |
Office Lens
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Converts images into PowerPoint, Word and PDF files. |
Google Translator
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Captures images, recognizes and reads textual contents. |
Perfect OCR
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Optical recognition of image characters, making them editable and accessible. |
Text Fairy
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Scannable
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Scans and transforms into PDF (not accessible to readers). |
Object and color identifier |
It identifies objects, and/or colors and/or texts contained in printed materials, images and pictures. Through the camera, the object and/or content to be identified is processed and, if found in the application database, it will give useful information about the captured image. |
EYE-D |
Identifies objects and reads contents. In order for the app to repeat which object is desired, a new photo has to be taken. |
Be my Eyes |
Identifies any object, color or text by sharing an image with a sighted volunteer. |
Aipoly vision |
Identifies colors and objects. |
Google Googles |
Identifies objects, colors, barcodes, QR codes and texts contained in scanned images, signs, frames, business cards and scanned printed materials. |
TapTapSee |
Collor ID |
Identifies colors. |
Identifi |
Identifies objects and excerpts from printed texts. |
Keyboard visualization |
It allows zooming and or change the keyboard contrast by maximizing the use of the visual residual for typing. |
Big Font |
Allows to enlarge the font of the keyboard icons. |
Huge Keyboard |
Kii Keyboard |
Changes font and contrast of icons. |
Paper money recognition |
It identifies and reads aloud the value of paper money. |
Blind Droid Wallet |
Identifies dollar, banknotes and coins. |
Money reader |
Identifies the Brazilian currency, only paper money. |
Brazilian Money |
Money Reader |
Banknotes from different countries. |
Guidance and mobility related to public transport |
It provides information on bus stops, itineraries and shows in real time the location of the bus allowing the person with low vision to have a forecast of the time the bus will arrive to the bus stop, decreasing the chances of boarding a wrong bus for lack of visual access to the itinerary sign. |
Moovit
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Siu móbile BH |
Allows people with visual impairment to access the application's unique field. In this field, one can register his/her favorite stops and find the nearest stop where the user is. The available lines will be arranged in the App and, when selecting the desired line, the driver is warned that the visually impaired person will be waiting. In addition, the user's cellphone vibrates, when the time the bus will arrive is closer. |
City Mobile
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CittaMobi Accessibility |
Provides predictions of arrival of the bus, compatible with Talkback. |
Geolocators |
It helps visually impaired people locate in space and find addresses. It is used to know street names, a task that is impossible due to visual restriction to read street signs |
ViaOpta nav |
Specific for people with visual impairment |
Waze
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Google Maps
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Digital bookshelf and PDF |
Bookshelf, stores and textual supports for books and PDF. Generally used to acquire and/or store books and PDF for reading with the help of screen magnifiers or screen readers and or texts. |
Wattped
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Provision and sharing of digital books in formats accessible to screen readers. |
Lev
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Allows to change contrast and font size. |
Google Docs
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Adobe acrobat
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Changes contrast. |
Audio Bible |
Audiobook |
Strategies |
Varied applications that allow to perform activities that are not possible because of low vision, because they are in a device (smartphone and tablet) with a variety of accessibility resources. And applications that improve ambient brightness and sharpness of images. |
Recorder |
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Flashlight |
Improves illumination of places with unfavorable lighting. |
Cymera |
Image editor that enhances the sharpness of poorly focused images, improving user viewing, as well as the efficiency of OCR and screen readers. |
Alarm |
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Clock |
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Calculator |
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Diary |
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Notes |
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Guitar tuner |
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Apps of bank agencies |
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