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Top Apps for the Visually Impaired Karen Murphy, MS OTR/L, SCLV

Top Apps for the Visually Impaired Karen Murphy, MS OTR/L, SCLV. LookTel Money Reading App $9.99. Recognize paper bills from $1 to $100 and speaks the value outloud Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad . . SayText – Free.

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Top Apps for the Visually Impaired Karen Murphy, MS OTR/L, SCLV

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  1. Top Apps for the Visually Impaired Karen Murphy, MS OTR/L, SCLV

  2. LookTel Money Reading App$9.99 • Recognize paper bills from $1 to $100 and speaks the value outloud • Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

  3. SayText – Free • Scans text within any image, such as a medical form or restaurant menu, and reads it aloud • A beep sound indicates that the document has been detected. The camera will shoot automatically when focused • SayText reads outloud the text in the document

  4. ZoomReader - $19.99 • Combination video magnifier and OCR app. • Zoom in on printed materials, apply color filters, take a picture of something and have the text in that image read out aloud

  5. List Recorder - $7.99 • Audio recorder that let’s you quickly make note of information as audio, text, or both.   • It has been designed to integrate with VoiceOver and interfaces well with Braille displays.  

  6. Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time. • The company also makes Color ID Free that sticks to basic colors Color Identifier - $9.99

  7. Talking Tag LV - $9.99 • Voice record and playback information onto specially developed sticky labels. $14.99/200 tags • Labels can be attached to any object • Labels can be erased and re-recorded any number of times • Instructions for medications • label boxes, files, clothes • food items and expiration dates.

  8. Dragon Dictation - Free Allows user to easily speak and instantly see text or email messages.

  9. NavigonMobileNavigatorNorth America - $44.99 • Transforms the iPhone into a fully functional mobile navigation system that uses the latest NAVTEQ map material.

  10. The app offers text-to-speech voice guidance • Pedestrian navigation, a turn-by-turn RouteList • Announces street names as you pass them

  11. Learning Ally - $19.99 • aka Recording for the blind – became Learning Ally in April 2011 • Access to >65,000 audiobooks • Best resource for K-12 and college-level textbooks • Membership required but free to anyone with print disability including visual impairment and dyslexia

  12. Bookshare Free to all students with qualifying disabilities >140,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals

  13. Read2Go - $19.99 • Interfaces with Bookshare’s entire collection (>140,000) • Store books on the Read2Go bookshelf • Read in text only or text-to-speech mode • Control font size, color, background, reading speed

  14. VizWiz - Free • Lets blind users recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in nearly real-time. Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers • Web worker is a human volunteer who will review and answer your question. In testing we took a photo of a bottle of foundation makeup. We then asked "Is there any sunscreen in this foundation?" In less than 30 seconds we received an accurate answer from a Web Worker "Yes, the foundation has 15 SPF sunscreen.

  15. Magnifiers Easy Reader with LED light - $1.19 Magnifier (TiAV) - $1.19 Continuous Zoom up to 20x iCanSee – Free

  16. VisionSim - Free • VisionSim, developed by the Braille Institute, turns on the camera of the iPhone and filters the lens with distortions that mimics the selected eye condition. • Macular Degeneration • Diabetic Retinopathy • Glaucoma • On the screen for each filter there is a "learn more" button with information.

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