Hi, Yes, I agree the dog's help is better than most. However, I don't always have a dog in my hands.
I'll take a look at My Way. Thanks for that recommendation. Carol P Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch On 17 Jun 2013, at 06:24 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carol, > > MyWay Classic will do this nicely, but the problem is that this will not work > indoors because you either only get a very weak or most likely no GPS signal. > Anyhow, with 3-5 meters accuracy no app will be good enough to do this at > this point. However, a guide dog will do this very nicely, if I am inside > somewhere it is rare that my dog will not find his way when I say “Find the > door”. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Carol Pearson > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 9:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: There should be an app for ... > > Some of those are good, and maybe rone day… > > I'd like an app that simply reverses wherever you have walked. So you start > it at the point where you want it started stop at the end and say reverse. I > would find this particularly useful, say, if I was in the middle of a > restaurant and needed to get out through the door again. > > Maybe I will think of some more later. Carol P > Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch > > On 17 Jun 2013, at 04:43 PM, "Lisa Larges" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey All, > Every now and then I’ll be doing something as a blind person that is either > really time consuming, in comparison to the time it would take for a sighted > person to do, or requires either some elaborate work-around, or finding a > sighted person to help me. > In those situations I often think to myself, “There should be an app that > does this.” > So, somewhat in the spirit of the conversation that was started around using > voice recognition features in new ways, here’s a little list of apps that I > think would be cool to have. > Some of these are doable, and some, are at least a long way off, but this > list is more about dreaming up possibilities then about practicality. > I’m hoping my list might spark some other folks ideas about apps or other > functionality they would like as a blind user to have on their phone. So > often, sighted folks have an idea about what they think would be helpful for > blind people to have; I think it would be great if we generated the ideas and > put them out there. > I’m sure it might happen, but I’m not putting this little list out there for > zealous nit-picking: “That’s not possible because,” or “that’s ridiculous > because,” etc. > And I’m also not looking for other ways to accomplish the same tasks. I’m > just saying, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I could use my phone to do … “ > > Ok, that’s my preamble. Here’s my starter list, add your own. > > 1. Text Id. The idea is for an app that would quickly scan an area and > pinpoint whether and where there was text, and then read it. This would be > useful, for instance, in finding a address on a building, or a sign behind > glass, etc. > 2. Am I straight. This wouldn’t be an app for determining one’s sexual > orientation, but would be an easy to use leveler. I know there are already a > couple of audio levelers out there, and I haven’t checked them recently but > I’ve found them a bit tedious to use. Wouldn’t it be nice to hold up your > phone and have it tell you “A little higher on the left.” “Ooops, that’s too > much.” I realize that this would require having some way to determine that > the phone itself was more or less level but … > 3. “Does this go with that?” or “Can I go out wearing this?” As color > identifiers get better it would be great to have an app that could tell you > whether two different colors complimented each other. So you could know if > that pink shirt went with those russet pants. > 4. “Where’s the pooh,” I read recently that there is now a new > external ad on device for Android that offers other kinds of sensory gauges. > Wouldn’t it be cool to use something like this to zero in on organic matter. > Sometimes, in the night, I’ll hear my cat go through his impressive audio > wind up before throwing up a hairball; I’ll get a general idea of where it > is, but it would be nice to have something like a blacklight to tell me where > exactly the mess is. I don’t have a guide dog or a dog of any kind, so I > don’t know how easy or onerous it is to find your dog’s deposits, but > wouldn’t it be cool to have a spotter. > 5. “O Spot,” similar to the above, wouldn’t it be nice to have an app > to identify whether you had a spot on that shirt. It could be used both for > checking your clothes before wearing them out in public, but also for finding > spots to apply spot remover. > > Alright, that’s what I have so far; would love to hear other people’s > creative ideas! > > Lisa > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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