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What is an app/computer program/website you wish existed that you think the blind would find useful? (self.Blind)
submitted by xXnoynacXx
As the title says.

Edit: or a machine/tool in real life
enzwificritic 3 points 4y ago
well seeing AI should come to android. also an accessible video editor. by the way i am just going to mention a cool device called orcam. i am sure all of you know this device.
KillerLag 2 points 4y ago
Not sure whether an app or a tool would be able to do this, but two issues that I've had come up (related) that I haven't figured out a solution for.

Newer, tall office buildings have elevators that don't have the floor buttons inside anymore, but they have a touchscreen security panel that displays the floors you can access when you scan your card in. While they do have an "accessible" feature built in, it is virtually useless when it is busy (which is most of the time). For example, my client scans in her card, and it starts reading the available floors (10 possible floors, out of 50). But it takes roughly 10 seconds to read them out... by which time, someone else has hit a button and that floor gets selection, which is most likely not her floor. An actual, accessible means of selecting the floor in a realistic use scenario would be amazing.

And on a related note, a method of locating an arriving elevator when you have a bank of 8, or 10, or 12 elevators. They make a sound when they arrive, but with a large number of elevators, it takes time (which you won't realistically have) to locate, especially when you have to factor in two different sides. And, related to the first problem, if it is the wrong elevator, then it would take you to the wrong floor (because of the security pass issue).
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