Human Tech - 12 Adept Ipad Apps For Visually Impaired Students

February 20, 2017
Upon the requests of some of our readers hither inwards EdTech in addition to mLearning nosotros went ahead in addition to curated for you lot this choice of some really skillful iPad apps to purpose amongst blind in addition to visually impaired students. While some of the featured apps are free, others are are not. You may desire to become through the collection (see links in addition to apps description below the visual) in addition to reckon what industrial plant for you. This run is based on Apple's Accessibility Apps Collection inwards  iTunes App Store.

This visual is also available for gratuitous download inwards PDF format from this link.



1- TapTapSee - Blind & Visually Impaired Camera

‘TapTapSee is designed to aid the blind in addition to visually impaired position objects they meet inwards their daily lives. Simply double tap the concealment to accept a photograph of anything, at whatever angle, in addition to listen the app speak the identification dorsum to you lot (Note: Spoken identification requires VoiceOver to endure turned on).’

2- Voice Dream Writer

‘Voice Dream Writer helps everyone write better: Text-to-speech proofreading reduces mistakes, phonetic in addition to important search aid you lot purpose the correct words, in addition to an active outline helps you lot organize in addition to improve the construction of your writing.’

3- Be My Eyes – Helping blind see

‘Be the eyes for a blind somebody inwards postulate of aid remotely through a alive video connective if you lot are sighted or endure assisted past times the network of sighted users if you lot are blind.’

4- knfbReader

‘Take a photo, the app reads the text inwards clear synthetic speech communication or amongst a connected Braille display. It’s equally unproblematic equally that. The app also has synchronized text highlighting which reads along amongst the displayed text, a practice goodness for people amongst dyslexia in addition to other reading disabilities.’

5- BlinSquare

‘BlindSquare is a novel solution that combines the latest technology to aid the blind amongst their daily lives. It has been developed inwards collaboration amongst blind people in addition to carefully champaign tested. You postulate either an iPhone or an iPad to larn started. It also supports some additional accessories to heighten the experience.’

6- MBraille

‘MBraille brings you lot a mobile braille keyboard. With the gratuitous features you lot tin type, edit in addition to post tweets in addition to text messages using contracted or uncontracted English linguistic communication braille.’

7- NantMobile Money Reader

‘NantMobile Money Reader at i time recognizes currency in addition to speaks the denomination, enabling people experiencing visual impairments or blindness to rapidly in addition to easily position in addition to count bills. Point the photographic idiot box camera of your iOS device at a nib in addition to the application volition say you lot the denomination inwards real-time.’

8- Color Identifier

‘Color Identifier uses the photographic idiot box camera on your iPhone or iPod deportment on to speak the names of colors inwards real-time. It's a novel Augmented Reality app for discovering the names of the colors or in addition to therefore you!’

9- Light Detector

‘Light Detector transforms whatever natural or artificial low-cal origin it encounters into sound. Light Detector is slow to use! Just run the application in addition to betoken your iPhone photographic idiot box camera inwards whatever direction. You volition listen a higher or lower sound depending on the intensity of the light.’

10- Digit-Eyes Lite

‘Digit-Eyes Lite allows you lot to read Digit-Eyes QR (Quick-Response) text bar code labels. It tin endure upgraded to read UPC / EAN labels equally well. You tin brand in addition to read your ain labels, too! Using the Digit-Eyes website, you'll endure able to practice a PDF file of Digit-Eyes QR bar codes that each comprise upwards to 250 characters of text’

11- Seeing Assistant Home

‘Seeing Assistant Home allows the users to color recognition, detection of the low-cal origin in addition to partially visually impaired people to purpose electronic loupe. Allows the users to scan in addition to generate barcodes in addition to QR codes. Seeing Assistant Home has been developed inwards closed co-operation visually impaired people inwards lodge to address their needs equally good equally possible.’

12- BARD Mobile

‘The BARD Mobile app provides access to braille in addition to talking books straight from the NLS Braille in addition to Audio Reading Download (BARD). BARD contains close 80,000 books, magazines, in addition to music scores inwards sound in addition to braille formats, amongst novel selections added daily.’