Hmm that's interesting. maybe in a few years.
You never know. You just never know.
On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Glenn wrote:
> I wonder if it will lead to facial recognition, so it will say mom on left
> and dad on right, for example.
> Glenn
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> From: "Dónal Fitzpatrick" <dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie>
> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: VO helping me center a face in my iPhone's viewfinder
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> Apropos of this thread, I saw a lovely app at the recent Assets conference
> in Dundee which assisted blind photography. Hasn't been released yet but
> some people are doing some very interesting things in this domain.
> On 17 Dec 2011, at 22:37, Glenn wrote:
>
>> I have an iPhone 4, and it has worked flawlessly since I stumbled upon it
>> just as Bryan did.
>> Glenn
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sarah Alawami" <marri...@gmail.com>
>> To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 3:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: VO helping me center a face in my iPhone's viewfinder
>>
>>
>> lol. I can hardly get that to work in ios 5 on my iPhone 4 but maybe I'll
>> have better luck with my 4s when I get it in june. or if not the 4s then
>> what ever is out there by then. I've heard good things about this face
>> thing
>> and I hope it improves with time.
>> On Dec 17, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Bryan Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I imagine most of you already know about this feature, but I don't recall
>>> knowing about it until this afternoon when I stumbled upon it completely
>>> by accident. I think this is pretty darn cool.
>>>
>>> I was lying on the floor with the dog snoring against my left side and
>>> the cat purring against my right, so I thought I'd hold the iPhone camera
>>> at arm's length and try to snap a photo. I launched the native camera app
>>> on my iPhone 4 running IOS 5, put it in photo mode with auto flash and
>>> back-facing camera, held it straight in front of me with the back-facing
>>> lens aimed in the general direction of my face, and prepared to snap one
>>> of my standard off-center photos.
>>>
>>> . Next thing I knew, VO started saying," One face, small face, near top
>>> edge." I tilted the iPhone a bit and VO announced, "One face, small face,
>>> near left edge. I kept tilting the phone until VO announce, "face
>>> centered." Then I moved the camera closer to my face and VO announced,
>>> "One face, large face, face centered."
>>>
>>> I then switched cameras to the front camera and got the same results. I
>>> also tried this in video mode but VO was silent.
>>>
>>> Lastly, I tried aiming the back facing camera at my Black Lab's face but
>>> could not get VO to recognize her. The cat decided she didn't want to be
>>> part of this experiment and ran off somewhere.
>>>
>>> I wonder what other IOS accessibility marvels I'm missing. <grin>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bryan
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