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Feedback for some ideas (self.Blind)
submitted by vorovka
Hi guys,
I'm working with a team at university to develop a product that improves the lives of the visually impaired. What we've come up with is a marketplace that gathers all the products that visually impaired consumers would use. Kind of like an ebay for visually impaired people. We wanted to know if anyone currently uses an existing similar website or if you would be interested in doing so if such a website existed? Are there any blatant issues you experience when using websites like amazon or ebay?
One other idea we had was a version of backyard tennis for visually impaired kids. For those that don't know backyard tennis is a game where a tennis ball is stuck to a string and the string connects to a pole. Players hit the ball with a racquet which then swings towards the other player. Our version would incorporate a beeping or whistling ball.
So what do you guys think? Are we wasting our time or is there some merit to this?
And if anyone thinks there's any pressing needs that aren't met by the current available consumer products, let us know as well.
Cheers
I'm working with a team at university to develop a product that improves the lives of the visually impaired. What we've come up with is a marketplace that gathers all the products that visually impaired consumers would use. Kind of like an ebay for visually impaired people. We wanted to know if anyone currently uses an existing similar website or if you would be interested in doing so if such a website existed? Are there any blatant issues you experience when using websites like amazon or ebay?
One other idea we had was a version of backyard tennis for visually impaired kids. For those that don't know backyard tennis is a game where a tennis ball is stuck to a string and the string connects to a pole. Players hit the ball with a racquet which then swings towards the other player. Our version would incorporate a beeping or whistling ball.
So what do you guys think? Are we wasting our time or is there some merit to this?
And if anyone thinks there's any pressing needs that aren't met by the current available consumer products, let us know as well.
Cheers
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
I'm not sure about eBay but Amazon is currently being sued for at least the third time because their site and policies are very blind unfriendly. You might want to check out the details from those cases to see what I mean (they have a lot of issues). The store front sounds like a neat idea but you would be in competition with a lot of already existing stores that provide low vision and blindness aids. The beeper tether ball sounds fun and I don't know if anyone has done that yet; there are sound making soccer and basketballs as well as baseballs and there's the entire sport of goal ball. You might want to check some of those out to see what the sounds are like and how people play games like goal ball and beeper baseball.
TrippingWithoutSight 1 points 3y ago
I mean..sure, there's already places/stores dedicated to the visually impaired like Blindbargains, Comproom in the UK, RNIB, CNIB VisionAids, BlindMiceMegaMall etc etc etc but if you consolidated all of these products into 1 website it may potentially be useful. Kind of like a Google for blind/VI products.
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