Now Roger and Margaret Wilson-Hinds of ScreenReader.net who themselves are visually impaired and blind have created and launched a new app on Android. The Georgie application is designed particularly for blind, visually impaired and disabled. The app has a specially designed user interface with big virtual buttons which speak when touched or moved. The design of the user interface is configurable with respect to brightness, responsiveness, volume, colors, feedback type or access to other applications of the smart-phone. With the speaker the user can also learn about status of GPS, Wi-Fi, battery, screen-lock mode, airplane mode etc. So people who know limited about the technology can now have easy access to the smart-phone.
For users with major functionality disorders a special 5 button
mode is designed that can be purchased as a set of core pack, travel pack, lifestyle pack and communication pack.
- Core Pack: Under this pack comes all to be used buttons like contact, call log, text messages, contacts, places you visit, daily news etc. The application provides users spoken help for guidance to make a call, send a text, read incoming text, get assistance to the places you go everyday or listen to everyday news.
- Travel Pack: With this pack learn to make your travel easy by learning about routes to be followed to board a bus with further details of journey, search and learn about public places in the nearest location according to category and sub-category, call local taxis or private cabs according to your location and get general information like weather, temperature, time and date of the day.
- Lifestyle Pack: This pack includes a camera that allows users to take pictures, analyze them and later share them on social media. With OCR the users can scan and convert documents, hear or view the results and share documents. On Twitter user can write or read tweets by voice. For any further assistance the user can ask question by voice and hear answers.
- Communications pack: This pack lets users get news and updates of daily world with talking newspaper and among thousands of books get your favorite read by the application. Listen to recent episodes of your favorite podcasts with voice blog to share your thoughts by voice.
This is a very special application developed for special people, so if you someone just DOWNLOAD the app in their Android smart-phone and let them live on their own now. For more information connect us on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
