Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
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Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#2Cool app. Just a bit of feedback:
1. Since you're targeting blind users, you may want to use a bit more ARIA on your page, particularly around the popup menu.
2. It would be nice if the main page explicitly stated that this was for IOS. I'm an Android user and had to explicitly click through to figure out it wasn't for me. IOS certainly has a larger share of blind users, but Android is popular as well.
Good luck! Any plans for an Android version? If so, and you'd like a tester who is also a developer familiar with its accessibility framework, please do let me know.
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#3Cool app. Just a bit of feedback: 1. Since you're targeting blind users, you may want to use a bit more ARIA on your page, particularly around the popup menu. 2. It would be nice if the main page explicitly stated that this was for IOS. I'm an Android user and had to explicitly click through to figure out it wasn't for me. IOS certainly has a larger share of blind users, but Android is popular as well. Good luck! Any…
Yes, in the future, I will be making an android version, so stay tuned :)
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
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Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#5Nice app. Keep it up.
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#6My initial impression of this app is that it's a cool demo of OCR technology, but I'm not sure how useful it would actually be to blind people. How would they know if they are taking a good enough picture of the text in the first place? How do they even hit the button? I could see using one of the hardware buttons as a shutter could work, but I don't know if you can do that in iOS.
(Note: I'm neither blind nor an iOS user so I do not know how blind users use iOS. Please correct me if I am wrong.)
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#7Is this strictly for books? Because audiobooks are a fairly well established way for the blind to read those. Does this work in any way with periodicals, webpages, and newspapers? They often have unpredictable layouts. Letting a blind person read the front page of the New York Times print edition would be a pretty great accomplishment.
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#8Why choose this over audio-books and advanced TTS software? As qrazhan noted, it's very difficult (unnecessarily so) to use in the first place. (ie. electronics are already the way to go, why would you care about print versions vs. digital versions if you're blind? they all sound the same).
I wonder, is this something you yourself use? Are you blind? In which case, I'm sure you're aware that this is not how assistive software works. Sorry, I just don't get it.
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#9Is this strictly for books? Because audiobooks are a fairly well established way for the blind to read those. Does this work in any way with periodicals, webpages, and newspapers? They often have unpredictable layouts. Letting a blind person read the front page of the New York Times print edition would be a pretty great accomplishment.
Google Glass app that reads what's in front of you?! O.O
Re: Show HN: Voice - An iOS App that lets blind people read
#10Are there any blind users of your app? How does it compare to the existing technologies that blind people are using for reading? What do blind people think of it so far? How does it handle formatting, OCR errors, fast-forwarding, that kind of thing?