In 2019, Wamiq Hassan, a computer engineer, and two of his friends Ali Shabbar and Abdul Qadeer, who are both visually impaired, co-founded the DeafTawk app to empower Pakistan’s deaf community.
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Zoo Atlanta Launches AI Animal Assistant Guide for visitors
Zoo Atlanta has introduced the new AI-powered Animal Assistant to help visitors find and learn about its animals. The Animal Assistant was built by conversational AI developer Satisfi Labs, which plans to expand the platform to other zoos and aquariums around the country.
This app translates braille to text with your iPhone
If you ever thought about learning Braille or just wanted to quickly translate something written in UEB to your iPhone, there’s a new app that can help you with that.
Microsoft project helps blind people with social cues and behaviours
PeopleLens is a research project at Microsoft that helps the user stay aware of the locations and identities of the people around them, promoting richer and more spontaneous interactions.
Company develops illumie for blind and visually impaired people to navigate
illumie is a project out of Europe and ran through Sopra Steria, a software developer. It was part of the House of Creative Denmark at South By Southwest in Austin last week. The event focused on Danish creators in film, technology and other platforms.
Field of Vision brings sports in real time to visually impaired fans
In 2019, Omar Salem saw a video of two spectators at a soccer game. One of them was visually impaired and his friend was tracing the action of the game on the man’s open palm. Salem was struck by the generosity of the deed, but it also got him thinking: does the friend want to spend the whole game providing feedback? Wouldn’t it be better if there was some way a visually impaired person could enjoy a soccer game independently?
Envision announces new features to its smart glasses at CSUN Conference 2022
Envision is an innovative AI solution that aims to help the visually impaired navigate through daily life. now, the company has revealed some impressive updates to its smart glasses and mobile app.
Orbit Research Introduces The Orbit Speak Notetaker at CSUN
Orbit Research announced the launch of the Orbit Speak braille notetaker at the 37th Annual CSUN Conference on Technology for People with Disabilities in Anaheim, California, USA. The Orbit Speak is equipped with features of a modern braille notetaker with a braille keyboard and synthesized speech output in a compact, pocket-sized device.
Twitter to make alt text descriptions more useful
Twitter has announced that its testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly more useful and prominent for everyone on the platform. With the change, images that have descriptions will be given a badge that says “alt,” and clicking on that badge will show the description.
UArizona develops new navigational tool for blind and partially sighted travellers
Those who are visually impaired may have a new navigational tool thanks to a collaboration at the University of Arizona.
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