Respected friends,
hai i'm bala from tamilnadu
i installed the guideDots app from playstore to my nxg minitablet android 4.1.1.
But app is not working totally. Bad result appeared on display like:
unfortunately the guideDots has stopped. I tried many times. Is there any
assistance with this.please give your's valuable suggestions.
thankyou
withregards
Bala.
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Subject: Re: [AI] new app
From: "Kasia" <[email protected]>
Date: 29/04/2014 6:57 pm
Is that app available for the iPhone users?
-----Original Message-----
From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Vikas Kapoor
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:03 PM
To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning
the disabled.
Subject: Re: [AI] new app
It is giving me false information, I'm sitting outside my home and it is
saying you are at your college at this moment...
On 4/29/14, Prashant Verma <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was able to download the GuideDots app from play store.
> It is a useful small app. Try it out for yourself.
> Search exactly with the name GuideDots - there is no space between the
> two words.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Satguru Rathi
> Sent: 29 April 2014 12:44
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> issuesconcerning the disabled.
> Subject: Re: [AI] new app
>
> Hi,
>
> I too, red the article and was excited to read about the Android app
> "Dot Guide" but when I searched on the Google Playstore, no such app
existed.
>
> If anyone knows, or have found out link for this app, then kindly post
> the same.
>
>
> With best regards,
> Satguru
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pratik shah
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 12:11 PM
> To: keyboardusers ; AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility
> and issues concerningthe disabled. ; Voice Vision.
> Subject: [AI] new app
>
> taken from hindustan times...
> For the visually impaired, navigating through neighborhoods can be a
> struggle, but apps aim to shed light on places, people, and obstacles
> that lie in their paths.
> There are 285 million visually impaired people worldwide, about 39
> million of whom are blind, according to the World Health Organization.
> Guide Dots, a free app for Android, detects a person's location and
> uses audio voice-overs to announce nearby attractions, including
> restaurants, shops -- and even friends.
> "We let people know what's around them more than a cane can,
> broadening their horizon more than a six foot circle around them,"
> said Deborah Vandeven, global chief creative officer at VML, based in
> Kansas City, Missouri, which created the app.
> With the app, users tap the Nearby button to hear a voiceover of
> places around them. They can also tag walkway obstructions, restrooms,
> and places with good service, and share this feedback with other users
> of the app.
> If they feel like meeting a friend, they can find out if any Facebook
> friends are around.
> While the app is meant complement a guide dog or cane, Vandeven said
> it's about giving more independence to the visually impaired. By
> leveraging Android's TalkBack feature, a screen reader, people can
> hear the different options on the screen read aloud, and double-tap to
> choose one.
> The app gets location data about people and places from Google Maps
> and Facebook Places. However, because GPS is only accurate to
> approximately 15 meters, the company plans to use beacon technology,
> bluetooth sensors that communicate location and other data to a
> person's smartphone, to increase accuracy.
> "This will help move you those last couple feet that for a visually
> impaired person could be the size of the Grand Canyon, so beacons are
> definitely a good use case for that," she added.
> BlindSquare for iOS is another app designed for the visually impaired
> to find places nearby. Users can, for example, ask for the most
> popular cafe within a 200 meter radius, or to find a post office. The
> app, which costs $23.99 and is available in over 15 languages, gets
> location data from Foursquare. It can also read out intersections
> while travelling.
> John Corneille, director of gift planning at Foundation Fighting
> Blindness, a non-profit based in Maryland, is visually impaired as a
> result of a condition called retinitis pigmentosa. He said that if the
> apps can deliver on their claims, then they might be the tools he's
> been looking for.
> "GPS on cars can be set to announce what street you're approaching, or
> points of interest as you go, but I haven't found an app that does
> those things accurately enough when you're walking," he said.
> Corneille, who also practices law, said that he uses many apps daily,
> including the VoiceOver function on his iPhone, which does
> text-to-speech, and Siri to dictate emails and texts.
> "My assessment is that there are a lot of apps available and most of
> them are very good. They really have a practical use and function for
> the visually impaired, and I'm thrilled that they're being offered,"
> he said.
> "If you're visually impaired there's no better time to be that way,"
> he added.
> Among other apps available for the visually impaired, TapTapSee, free
> for iOS and Android, allows people to snap a photo of an object to
> determine what it is. For iOS, LookTel Money Reader, $9.99, speaks out
> currencies in different denominations, and Color ID, free, can help
> them figure out the color of a shirt or pair of socks.
>
> --
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