[accessibleimage] Re: Imagine Cup, Kurzweil-NFB Reader, Black Sun, art sculpture park

Hi Lisa,

My understanding is that The vOICe MIDlet should run on the
high end Java-enabled camera phones from HTC (still untested
though), allowing you to directly hear graphics and identify
colors. Since these phones are running Windows Mobile, they
should be compatible with all the applications and features
that Chris mentions, such as Mobile Speak, OCR and likely GPS.
So there is some possibility that there will come a device
that can do it all, albeit with some inevitable performance
limitations - which may be where your "user takes it home"
part chimes in. Similar developments may also take place for
the Symbian based camera phones, such as the Nokia camera
phones with Talks or Mobile Speak.

Best wishes,

Peter Meijer


The vOICe for Mobile Camera Phone and PDA
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/midlet.htm


Lisa Yayla wrote: 
Hi Chris,
Wonderful!
When I read about the the Kurzweil-NFB Reader I thought that perhaps
this type of tool could also affect other things. The question of
graphics, I was thinking about a solution for putting descriptions of
pictures on the page. Picture description, in a very small font size,
could be placed in a fixed area of a newspaper, magazine, etc and than
the camera could read it. This additional text could be printed very
small so that it wouldn't take much space.The reader would know to check
say the lower left hand corner for descriptive text. I saw a example of
very fine text, where a few sentences of it looked like a line and one
needed a magnifying glass to read it. If such text would be placed in
the same place.  Graphics could also be done this way, a line map could
be made very small, read by the camera, user takes it home, blows it up
and embosses it out. To do such a thing would be dependent upon printing
techniques. What do you think?
Your tool sounds like it will also be very popular with everyone sighted
as well as visually impaired.

Best,
Lisa




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