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Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by detaro »

CJefferson wrote: post #92
detaro wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I would not have expected those low Braille literacy figures. For the UK, numbers seem to be similar. I couldn't find any for other European countries, but at least here in Germany Braille markings are very common, so I'd always thought that most blind can use them.

I think computers killed off Braille, particularly among the young. Both Windows (with the right software) and Mac OS X (straight out of the box) are surprisingly (it suprised me!) usable by blind people.

With speech output instead of Braille devices? Interesting.

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by JshWright »

cgag wrote: post #84
JshWright wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd suggest (almost) exactly the opposite, actually... Charge $5/mo to be a 'helper' and keep it free for blind users. I suspect there are enough folks out there who would be happy to pay $5 for the opportunity to help others (maybe I'm too much of an optimist though... who knows...) That way you cover costs, and filter out a lot of potential trolls.

Paying someone to be a middleman on my volunteer charity work feels pretty gross.

Why? They are enabling you to have opportunities to help people that you would not otherwise have. I would consider that a service worth paying for (and I assume I'm not alone...)

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by tobiasdm »

robmcm wrote: post #42
khebbie wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do have abuse handling

Not only intentional abuse, but what about lag? Especially when say, crossing the road!

Crossing the road is definitely stretching it! We are adapting the website to reflect that. We are already getting a lot of feedback with interesting use cases – it's is going to be really interesting to see what the community that is building around By My Eyes will come up with!

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by putzdown »

Curious: a couple of the images of "blind" eyes show eyes with no pupils. Forgive my ignorance, but is this common among blind people, or is it a Photoshopism? If a Photoshopism, then is it wise for a website offering services for the blind to misrepresent the physiology of blindness?

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by [deleted] »

ikt wrote: post #16

My only question is how do you handle trolls, idiots, abuse etc? What happens if for example 4chan decides to 'raid' your app and direct blind people into unfortunate situations. I must admit it's a very low act but that's my only real thought about this. If abuse wasn't a possibility I think the app is 100% amazing.

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Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

#108

Post by tobiasdm »

RIMR wrote: post #95

Watch out for 4chan. They posted a bunch of strobing GIFs in a epilepsy forum a while back. I wouldn't put it past them to find exploiting this app hilarious...

Currently we have builtin abuse reports in the app, if either end of a call thinks something is odd. Hopefully we can catch abuse through this mechanism.

Please let us know if you hear about anything like this in relation to Be My Eyes – sounds horrible.

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by williwu »

putzdown wrote: post #106

Curious: a couple of the images of "blind" eyes show eyes with no pupils. Forgive my ignorance, but is this common among blind people, or is it a Photoshopism? If a Photoshopism, then is it wise for a website offering services for the blind to misrepresent the physiology of blindness?

They are all pictures of actual blind people. There are no "Photoshopism" involved other than the usual enhancing brightness or contrast etc.

Re: Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind

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Post by khebbie »

reledi wrote: post #91
rdez6173 wrote: post #87

I find the thought of communicating directly with someone a bit anxiety-inducing, but I would really love to volunteer for something like this. I would be happy to transcribe a letter, or product expiry date so that I could be read back to the user with text-to-speech in real-time. I suspect that I'm in the minority and this is likely a non-issue.

I'm in the same boat. I'd be more likely to help if it wasn't real-time (but still quick enough to be helpful).

vizWiz is an alternative, which is not real time
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