iOS Apps Developed Specifically for the Blind or People with Low Vision

AccessNote is the official iOS notetaker from the American Foundation for the Blind.

AccessNote is the first notetaker for the iOS platform designed particularly for VoiceOver users looking for a highly efficient, feature-rich note taking experience. In addition to being a low cost alternative to traditional note takers, AccessNote will allow users to combine efficient note taking with the countless other features and functions of the iOS devices. This will allow blind and visually impaired people in classroom or business settings to use the same popular iOS devices that their sighted peers are using.

Some of the valuable features in AccessNote include:

This is the official app of the American Foundation for the Blind's online publication AccessWorld.

AccessWorld is an online magazine dedicated to technology and people with vision loss

This app has been optimized for iOS VoiceOver and Accessibility features.

With this free app you can:

• Browse and read articles from the latest issue of AccessWorld.
• Browse and read any article in AccessWorld's entire archive of back issues.
• Contact any member of the AccessWorld team.

aidColors is an application developed by Tilenus Group that allows visually impaired people to identify the color of clothing and other objects. It can also be a funny game for children.

aidColors allows you to perform easy and fast color recognition by means of the iPhone camera. It is advisable to use aidColors taking something white as the reference color for more accurate recognition in case of bad light.

Its use is intuitive, simple and totally ACCESSIBLE for the blind or visually impaired.

aidColors has been certified by the FTS, a foundation focused on enabling everyday tasks through technology to people who have disabilities.

The profits from the sale of aidColors will be donated to social purposes.

There are hundreds of gps apps. Do we really need one more?

Ariadne GPS is more than a simple gps app.

Besides offering you the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, the number, etc. it also lets you explore the map of what's around you.

What do we mean by saying "explore"? You'll deal with a talking map. If you have VoiceOver activated on your device, you will be able to know the street names and numbers that are around you by touching them.
Just put your finger on the screen of your device, when showing the map and moving it you will be told the info's about the street you're touching.

AudioLabels helps visually impaired persons to recognize objects through an audio description associated to barcodes or QR codes.

AudioLabels works in two simple steps:

BigBrowser is an Internet browsing application designed to help Low Vision users more easily navigate the web on their iPads. It’s extra large keyboard and controls, expanded pinch zooming, and multiple color themes make content easy to read.

Features include:

Blind Bargains: Deals, News and Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Blind Bargains is your source for the latest deals and news for the blind and visually impaired. Browse the latest deals and classifieds. Listen to the latest audio podcasts. Shop for what you need with our powerful Product Search.

Blind Bargains scours the net to bring you the latest sales, deals, and news on computers, screen readers, notetakers, Braille printers, hard drives, accessible cell phones, memory cards, talking products, household items, and much more. We also present articles, news, and resources of general interest to the blind community and friends.

The same great Blind Bargains content, now on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.

BlindSquare makes you sense what's around you. The only thing you need to do is listen.

BlindSquare is a new solution that combines the latest technology to help the blind with their daily lives. It has been developed in collaboration with blind people and carefully field tested. You need either an iPhone or an iPad to get started. It also supports some additional accessories to enhance the experience.

How does it work?

BlindSquare uses GPS and the compass to locate you. It then gathers information about the surrounding environment from FourSquare. BlindSquare has some unique algorithms to decide what information is the most relevant and then speaks it to you with high quality speech synthesis.

This App allows for the lookup of Grade 2 Braille symbols, some basic Computer Braille Symbols, and Nemeth Code. You can search either by the dots you see on the page or by the English abbreviation your searching for or punctuation. This App is intended to be used as a reference and does not function as a full translation tool.

BraillePad is dedicated to visually impaired users and allows them to write SMS, mails and social posts, more quickly using the Braille code.

Looking for a faster and easier way to type on your iPhone or iPod touch? BrailleTouch is a revolutionary app for the blind community that lets you type on your touchscreen using braille. Many people have reported typing at 30 words per minute or faster with accuracy.

We offer a free download of BrailleTouch so you can try it at no cost. You can enter braille on the touchscreen and hear each character and/or word as you type. The free version is also a great teaching tool for braille instructors and students.

Braillist is a simple, powerful and effective braille keyboard for your phone. It is designed to be used by the visually impaired, braille students as well as those curious about this language.

Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time. It's an Augmented Reality app for discovering the names of the colors around you!

The color names are fun and specific: Paris Daisy, Lavender Rose, Moon Mist, and many more. The app also supports Simple Colors. Tap the color square at the top left corner to toggle between Simple Colors and Exotic Colors.

It can be a useful app for the blind and visually impaired, but I think it's fun for everyone.

It will also tell you the hex value of the color, so you can identify exactly what color the camera sees.

It's fast, easy, and fun! Try it today.

"Best App Ever" - JJ Sutherland, NPR

Peach Orange? Wax Flower? Albescent White?These are the names of colors!Discover the names of the colors around you with Color Identifier, a new Augmented Reality app that identifies colors in real-time. It's Fast, Easy, and-- most of all-- it's Funny!Find out what color your friends are: point your camera at their faces!

Color Reader is an innovative concept allowing the user to "Touch" camera live video to know the color of something. This is a fantastic way for people who are color blind to check colors… It works on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 the new iPod Touch.

Designed for the blind and visually unpaired persons too !!!

Are you curious to see how color blind people see the world? Download this app. Or if you're color blind, help is available. Just download this app.

Do not mistake this app for other color blind apps. Color De Blind not only shows you what it is like to be color blind, but it also modifies live video to help color blind people see the real world in ways they haven't before.

Color De Blind harnesses the graphics processor within your cell phone to run advanced color manipulation algorithms. These algorithms have existed on computers for some time, but have had limited utility to color blind people in the real world. Now, Color De Blind allows you to go anywhere your iPhone can go while experiencing colors in live, full-motion video.

The ColorDetect iPhone app gives you the possibility to detect colors in real time using augmented reality technology.

The name and the RGB values of the detected colors are displayed in real time on the user interface. ColorDetect detects the colors with a 5 point detection algorithm to improve the detection quality and to compensate the color noise when the light is not optimal. If you have an iPhone 4, ColorDetect lets you enable the built in LED light to detect colors also when it's dark.

With ColorDetect detected colors can also be shared very simple by sending the color with all relevant information (RGB, HEX Value, color name and an color example) per Mail.

FEATURES

THE PERFECT APP FOR THE COLOR-IMPAIRED OR THE COLORBLIND!** Fast! Free!

ColoredEye will identify the colors from your camera in real-time! Or you have option to identify colors within a saved photo.

Simply use your iPhone or iTouch to take a photo in good lighting, then pick an object or location within the photo for ColoredEye to classify, or use the live camera mode to find out colors instantly.

Each color database has its own set of names for a range of colors. You can pick from:

The ColorVisor detects colors in your environment by using the cameras that are built into your device. Additionally, the app supports scanning colors in photos and images. ColorVisor identifies the color’s name and its components in RGB and HSB. If you like the color, you can store it, add notes, fine-tune the color component values, or even change the color name. The free creating of new colors of your own choice is also possible. Complete VoiceOver is supported.

A simple yet powerful DAISY audio book reader supporting the 2.02, 2002 and 2005 formats with full or partial audio.

Features include:

• Full navigation of the book structure (dependent on book markup)
• Fast forward and rewind of audio content with user specified time intervals.
• Platform independent transfer of books via built-in FTP server.
• Bookmarking with automatic save and resume of playback position on a per book basis.
• Easy selection of available books by title.
• Large, easy to recognise icons
• Fully Voiceover accessible
• Book size only limited by device capacity.
• Simple, intuitive interface

Note that variants of the DAISY standard such as Bookshare and NIMAS are not currently supported.

Digit-Eyes reads barcode labels. It enables people without vision to scan UPC / EAN codes and hear the names of over 25 million products. Users can also make their own barcode labels on the Digit-Eyes website and print them on inexpensive address labels. These barcodes may contain text that VoiceOver reads aloud or they can be used to record audio on your iPhone or iPad that is played back whenever the bar code is scanned.

Blind? Dyslexic? Digit-Eyes is for you! With Digit-Eyes, you can

Earl™ lets you use your voice to open a newspaper and have it read to you. "When I lost my sight, I kind of gave up. Earl has restored my confidence and faith in living," (Earl Barlow). We built Earl™ for him, so that he and others like him could read the news again and re-connect with the world. We named it "Earl" so we would remember why.

Have you ever struggled to see your Status Bar on your iOS Device?
Well here’s your answer.  Essentials gives you all your ‘Essential’ information in one Easy-To-Use, Easy-To-See, VoiceOver compatible manner.
We also enable you to use your device as a Torch**
Information available within Essentials includes:

This Bureau of Engraving and Printing app from the U.S. government quickly identifies U.S. currency with voice and also has a privacy mode for those who do not want to use speech, including deaf-blind users.

EyeSight by SightTech was developed for users with visual impairments to be the most intuitive magnification and color enhancement tool in iOS history.

Designed to utilize the newest iPad's technology, EyeSight allows anyone to magnify any printed material up to 12X, simply by using a few hand gestures with your iOS 5 device. In addition to magnification, you can toggle through 6 distinct color-contrast combinations to suit your individal preferences and visual enhancement needs. When EyeSight is combined with the use of a table-top stand, your iPad becomes the equivalent of a CCTV. When combined with an HDMI TV screen, EyeSight utilizes iPad’s built-in iOS mirroring capabilities, allowing for the magnification of small text up to 100X or more!

The biggest innovation to come to touch-typing. Experience eyes-free typing and never look back! ★★★★★

"This is much better than your standard input methods and predictive text engines." - TechCrunch

“You can throw accuracy out the window pretty much entirely” - Lifehacker

“It’s light-years better than the iPhone’s autocorrect" – Wired

"Awesome new predictive text input method. Perhaps next year it will be highlighted by Apple" - AppAdvice

"Awesome! Amazing! Unbelievable! God, I hope Apple builds this into iOS” ★★★★★

“This app is a game changer” ★★★★★
David Woodbridge, Apple Ambassador

Can't read menus? We can't either, that's why we made Guide.

HIMS Chat is an application designed to facilitate face-to-face communication between a Deaf-Blind person and a sighted person via Bluetooth connectivity between an iPhone, iPod, or iPad, and a HIMS Braille Sense notetaker (Braille Sense U2, Braille Sense U2 QWERTY, Braille Sense OnHand) or Braille EDGE 40.

Features:

• Facilitates face-to-face communication between a Deaf-Blind and a sighted person.
• Includes built-in and user-created macros for easy entry of common phrases using just a few keystrokes.
• Save conversations and read them at a later date.
• Receive vibration alerts from the Braille Sense U2 when a sighted person sends a message on the iPhone.

Connecting Braille Sense and iPhone:

HueVue is a tool that helps colorblind people to identify, match and coordinate colors. Touch any image and get detailed color information; simulate color blindness; compensate for some color vision weaknesses; compare and coordinate colors; manage your own color library. If you or someone you know has trouble with colors, or if you’re interested in a cool color identification, matching and coordination tool, then HueVue is for you! FEATURES:Take a picture with the camera or choose an image from your library and get color names and detailed color information simply by touching the image. Simulate and compensate for certain types of color blindness. Save and organize favorite colors and swatches. Find colors that harmonize with a given color. Find the closest match to a given color.

***Warning - $109.00****
HumanWare, in partnership with Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB) and its foundation, has designed the HumanWare Communicator, the first multilingual face-to-face conversation app for deaf-blind people. This unique app will help deaf-blind individuals communicate on an everyday basis by connecting a HumanWare Braille device (BrailleNote Apex or Brailliant) with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

How Does It Work?

The HumanWare Communicator application is intended to establish a text conversation between a deaf-blind person and a sighted person. All interaction appears both on the deaf-blind person’s refreshable Braille display, as well as visually on the screen of the iOS device.

The iBlink Radio application from Serotek Corporation is the world's first application for the visually impaired for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad! Radio stations, podcasts and reading services of special interest to
blind and visually impaired persons; as well as their friends, family, caregivers and those wanting to know what life is like without eyesight.

All stations under Community Radio are owned and/or operated by persons with limited or no eye sight. Genres include oldies, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, alternative, classic Rock, Old Time Radio and more. This is a small sampling of SAMNet, Serotek's award-winning online community dedicated to promoting the digital lifestyle to its low-vision and blind subscribers.

Pulled from iTunes:

iColorNamer - iPhone 4+ version

http://www.iColorNamer.wilsonsn.com
by Simon Wilson

iColorNamer should help normal, blind and color blind individuals to identify/decide color names for every day objects.

iColorNamer streams live iPhone camera data into a colour recognition algorithm. The algorithm averages color information within a central square, displays and announces color names via audio.

The algorithm used is the result of a UK Manchester University project into developing a more perfected and universally understood way of presenting color information to blind people.

iMove supports independent mobility of visually impaired people.

By using iMove, you can:

1. What is InDaisy Reader?

Levelware InDaisy Reader is a multimedia talking DAISY book reader that allows users to enjoy different flavors of DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 books on their iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Currently, InDaisy Reader supports Daisy books from Bookshare, Celia, CNIB, HKSB, Huseby kompetansesenter, Internet Archive, JSRPD, NFB-NEWSLINE, NLB, PaTTAN, Read How You Want, RNZFB, TPB and Vision Australia.

2. Features

In-App Download

• Browse and Search Bookshare Daisy books.

Auto Resume

• Remembers your last-read book and opens it on start-up
• Remembers where you have left off in each book

Bookmarks

• Add multiple bookmarks for each book

Encoding conversion

Learning Ally, formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, is committed to making reading accessible for all who learn differently. We provide over 75,000 audiobooks, audio textbooks, and other recorded books to help anyone who experiences difficulty in reading print material succeed. Learning Ally Membership is required to use this app.

Get the Learning Ally Audio app for your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad today! Instantly access Learning Ally’s downloadable DAISY-formatted audiobooks.

Learning Ally is a nonprofit organization, and the nation’s leading provider of accessible educational content. Learning Ally works with key textbook publishers to provide audio textbooks for K-12 and college level curricula.

Features:

Direct Downloading

Have you ever listened to light? With Light Detector, now you can!

Light Detector transforms any natural or artificial light source it encounters into sound. Light Detector is easy to use! Just run the application and point your iPhone camera in any direction. You will hear a higher or lower sound depending on the intensity of the light.

If you are blind, Light Detector helps you to be more independent in many daily activities. At home, point your iPhone towards the ceiling to understand where the light fixtures are and whether they are switched on. In a room, move the device along the wall to check if there is a window and where it is.

You can find out whether the shades are drawn by moving the device up and down.

LookTel Recognizer allows users with visual impairments or blindness to identify cans, packages, ID or credit cards, DVDs, and similar items. Users can store images of objects in a library or database, and then simply point the iPhone's camera at an object and the phone will recognize and describe the item instantly. A barcode scanner is also included to provide additional labeling help.

This app provides a basic introduction to VoiceOver and the gestures used throughout iOS. Persons new to VoiceOver and IOS are guided through the tutorial with a pleasant mix of facts and entertainment. Once the app is started with VoiceOver running, the text and elementary games provide a practice of the basic gestures used with VoiceOver and IOS. As each new gesture is introduced, it is accompanied by an interactive practice screen. The core basics are covered:

- tap, double-tap, and split-tap gestures
- flick right and flick left
- two-finger-double-tap
- the rotor gesture
- the up and down flick.
- two-finger single tap
- two-finger flick up and down
- double-tap and hold
- three finger flick up, down, left and right

Super Powers For Your Eyes!

Lumin is an electronic magnifying glass for your iPhone or iPod. Not only does it magnify items, it can also keep a running history of images and can save or share these images with your friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Locked images can be magnified 10 time or even more with ideal lighting, and can also be mirrored to your Dropbox account.

Lumin also controls the camera flash on your device, so you can magnify dark, hard-to-reach places with ease.

Lumin is:

MagLight+ transforms your iPhone into a well lit magnifying glass.

FEATURES

• Magnify and zoom in up to 10x
• Switch the light on or off
• Tap to focus

TESTIMONIALS

• "This is perfect for restaurants. I no longer have to ask someone to help me read the receipt, when figuring out the tip."
• "Simple and clean, love it!"
• "I always forget my glasses, but always have my phone. great idea"

Note: Continued use of the light function may dramatically decrease the battery life.

A beautiful magnifying glass featuring a continuous zoom up to 20x. See all the details without loosing the overview of the surroundings. You will be amazed by the realistic look, touch and feel of this useful piece of art.

- Full screen mode
- Create screenshots
- Settings are saved automatically
- Now featuring active illumination on selected devices!

Disclaimer: Continued use of the flash
may dramatically decrease battery life

• Fast launch time
• Simple and Easy interface
• Adjustable magnifying levels
• Fast magnifying
• Supports all iPhone models
• High Resolution Display support
• Supports iOS 4.0 to iOS 5.01

ABOUT THE APP
The simple and useful magnifying glass application combines powerful magnification with an easy to adjust magnification levels. With four magnification levels for reading and close range work, this app makes your life easier.

This standing magnifying glass app is the perfect app for your near and detailed vision.

FEATURES

Help us build a better world!

Co-create a map of your city for everyone, together with thousands of people. With Mapp4All you can build a place where all people, regardless of their limitations, can be one more person without feeling excluded.

By Swiss Federation of the Blind

from iTunes store:
GPS orientation aid which provides distance and directional information to a selected point of interest.
Such a point can be an address from your address book or a point of a self-defined route.
The non-free version of MyWay also allows file exchange via the iTunes filesharing option.
There, you can also import files containing nodes in Open Street Map format giving access to hundreds of POI in the proximity such as bus stops or restaurants.
Thanks to VoiceOver, visually impaired and blind people have unlimited access to this app. We recommend to turn on speaking of VoiceOver hints.

NFB-NEWSLINE® content now comes to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch!

NFB-NEWSLINE® is an information source designed to keep persons who are unable to read conventional newsprint informed about current events locally, nationally, and around the world.

NFB-NEWSLINE® Mobile features the text of over three hundred newspapers, forty magazines, plus personalized television listings.

In order to use this application, you must be a NFB-NEWSLINE® subscriber with a valid identification and security code. Eligible NFB-NEWSLINE® subscribers are only authorized to install and use this application on five devices.

This app is meant to be an extremely simplistic audiobook player. It was written with the visually impaired in mind. Many audiobook player apps have small buttons which are hard to see and difficult to press accurately, making it easy for you to lose your place (and difficult to find it again).

With Pastime, you simply pick a book to listen to from the easy-to-read list (which shows all audiobooks in your iTunes library), tap the screen to play it (or pause it), and fast-forward or rewind with simple swiping motions. Finding a specific place in the book is easy, and you can't accidentally skip to a place you didn't intend to.

Photogenda Mini is a better way to see and handle your contacts.
Quick dial a contact with a single tap to make phone calls, send SMS or start FaceTime.
Pinch zoom in/out to toggle view and change the amount of contacts you can see.
Personalize the appearance of your contacts modifying the border style or the background.

Upgrade to Photogenda to enjoy advanced features such as creation of groups of contacts, send eMails, Skype and import all your contacts in one tap.

Braille is the way the blind and visually impaired write and read. PocketBraille Lite provides the ability for sighted and blind users of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad to learn the Braille code. PocketBraille Lite lets the user learn the alphabet and punctuation symbols of the Braille code as an entry point to the language.
 

As featured in the iTunes Special Education section, Read2Go is the most accessible DAISY ebook reader for iOS.

For questions on how to best use Read2Go, contact support(at)bookshare.org.

From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading.

Speaks the name of the nearest color in the center of a camera preview pane using speech synthesis. Can also show and speak the three RGB 255 numbers.

If you lock the exposure and color balance (using the lock icon button in the upper right) while aiming at something medium neutral gray under your current scene's lighting, the color naming scheme will be more accurately centered in the RgB gamut.

SayText reads out loud the text in the image. It is intended for the visually impaired users. SayText is a free spin off product from the DocScanner team.

Instructions:

1. Place the iPhone center of a document and double-tap the “Take picture” -button
2. Slowly elevate the iPhone upwards from the document, until the whole document is in picture. A beep sound indicates, that the document has been detected. The camera will shoot automatically when focused
3. While the OCR is running, tap the screen to hear the progress status
4. When the OCR is ready, swipe right on the screen to listen the document

See It is a handheld video magnifier that works by streaming a real time video feed to your iPhone or iPad's screen from your device's back-facing camera. You can zoom the feed in and out, and apply image filters to make things easier to see. Also, for devices that support it, you can turn on your device's flash light for extra illumination and a sharper image.

Designed by the visually impaired for the visually impaired, See It is the world's only portable CCTV video magnifier for your iPhone and iPad! Why pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a handheld portable CCTV, when there's an app for that?

See It supports the following image filtering modes:

SeeingAssistant-Move is an application developed by Transition Technologies S.A. in order to support blind and visually impaired people in everyday life. SeeingAssistant-Move provides advanced geo-location and navigation features as well as current weather reports.

SeeingAssistant-Move LITE is an application developed by Transition Technologies S.A. in order to support blind and visually impaired people in everyday life. Aplication provides advanced geo-location and navigation features as well as current weather reports.

As described in the iTunes Store:

Sendero Group develops and distributes accessible GPS for the blind on 6 types of devices. If you purchase Sendero LookAround for the iPhone, you will not only get useful location information, you will be underwriting the cost of accessible GPS for people who are blind or visually impaired. Thank you for supporting Location Information For Everyone.

Sendero GPS LookAround for the iPhone announces the current street, city, cross street, heading and nearby points of interest. Unlike Sendero's other apps, there is no turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone yet. For more information on the other Sendero navigation devices, visit the company's Accessible GPS Products page.

SightCompass is a detailed digital descriptive service designed for the visual impaired to assist in navigating their surroundings.

Are there times when you need to magnify and illuminate small print? The SRC Magnifier application can help by turning your iPhone into a portable electronic magnifier.

The SRC Magnifier app combines many of the features usually found in dedicated portable handheld electronic magnifiers.

The SRC Magnifier app has many uses including:

• Reading menus in dimly lit restaurants
• Reading labels on medicine bottles
• Reading grocery product ingredients
• Checking prices and receipts
• Reading maps
• Reading newspapers
• Viewing photographs

Key Features:

A comprehensively featured calculator that has become a favorite among adults and primary schools around the world. Designed for a wide range of users, this calculator has large colorful buttons, optional high contrast, full VoiceOver support, and unique to this calculator; the option to use speech for answers, button names and formulas!

*** Showcased by Apple Australia at the Association of Special Education Administrators in Queensland Inc. Conference 2011 ***

"We have found it particularly useful to students with developmental delays."
- Apple (Australia)

If you’re looking for a talking calculator with scientific or fraction operators, then please look for this app's big brother, the Talking Scientific Calculator.

Talking Calculator's features include:

Developed for the Cotswold Listener charity to deliver 'talking newspapers' to blind or partially sighted users in the Cheltenham and north Cotswolds (Gloucestershire, England) region. Similar talking newspaper organisations will be providing additional content for other regions.

Each downloaded news/magazine article is accompanied by a large text headline for the partially sighted, plus a spoken headline for the blind user. The user can select to listen to the full story, or move onto another story. All articles are saved, so the user is not restricted to the need for a network connection. Articles older than 30 days are automatically deleted. Stories can be paused, resumed at any time, and listened to in a continuous loop.

TapTapSee is designed to help the blind and visually impaired identify objects they encounter in their daily lives.

Simply double tap the screen to take a photo of anything and hear the app speak the identification back to you. (Note: Spoken identification requires VoiceOver to be turned on)

TapTapSee is a free app that helps the blind and visually impaired become more independent in their day-to-day activities.

TapTapSee has been a huge hit with users taking thousands of pictures per-day. It has garnered multiple podcasts, reviews, as well as positive feedback within the community.

● Named App of the Month by RNIB in March, 2013 ●

MEDIA COVERAGE

Text Detective finds and reads text in printed documents within seconds using your iPhone’s camera. The detected text can easily be read, edited, copied and pasted into documents, emails or other apps. It even stores all the scanned text in a history, which allows you to refer to it later. Every step is accessible.

Text Detective works best with the clean and crisp text you find in documents, and at a distance of about the length of a forearm. You can use it wherever you go, and you don’t need to worry about network coverage – it even works on the plane.

If you can write and read Braille, you will see how simple, fast and efficient it is to write in Braille on your iPhone. Still, our application focuses mainly on teaching Braille. Using writing and your sense of touch and hearing you will learn and remember Braille much faster and much more efficiently. The lessons are divided into learning Braille in detail, testing with learning and random testing.

New features:
Now you can type braille phone numbers and than make a call.

Now you can type braille www adresses and go to internet.
Everything what you type braille, will be stored in the clipboard for use in other applications like standard text.
New Braille calculator.

TypeInBraille allows you to write in Braille on your iPhone. You can enter a character through its Braille representation using a sequence of three simple gestures. Each gesture is used to enter one of the three rows of a braille character.
You can find a full description of the typing technique at http://www.everywaretechnologies.com/apps/typeinbraille/

Features
Write your notes

• type your notes using your fingers to enter Braille dots;
• edit the text (delete, select, copy, cut and paste);
• navigate the text (character by character, word by word).

Send and copy your notes

For Iphone 4 Only....Now Finally the perfect reading aid for those with poor eyesight when reading or working close up,

If you are suffering with Macula degeneration or other visual impairments then you need this App.

Or maybe you have good eyesight but need your close up work magnifying. Great for those Hobbies and Crafts.

This really is the greatest Magnifying App there is with a choice of settings right up to 32 X magnification. You really will wonder how you ever managed without it.

Do you struggle reading that small print. Well struggle no more.

Absolutely the App you need to make those tiny images bigger, Clearer, Sharper.

No more eyestrain trying to see tiny objects.....

Braille Institute is proud to present ViA (Visually Impaired Apps) for iPhone and iPad. ViA has been designed to help blind and low-vision users easily sort through the 500,000+ apps in the iTunes App Store to locate the apps that were built specifically for visually impaired users, or apps that happen to provide functionality useful to this population.

VIP Radio is made for those who are visually impaired.
Its functionalities are minimized and its controls are larger than usual.
It is also suitable for a person who can hardly operate usual internet radio apps.

• iTunes compatible built-in tuner that handles over 5000 active stations.
• VoiceOver Compatible
• Memorize last tuned station
• Shuffle Tuning (Search result of GenreListView/StationListView)
• Shake to shuffle
• Sleep Timer

VisionAssist is a new category of handheld electronic magnifier that utilizes your smartphone. It is designed to help people with Low Vision conditions including AMD (age related macular degeneration), Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, Cataracts and color blindness. Why purchase an expensive dedicated electronic video magnifier when you can utilize your smartphone or tablet that is always with you. Use it on your iPhone for when you are out and about, use it with your iPad for big easy to read images, or connect it wirelessly with your Apple TV and your big screen TV or computer monitor at home for extra large viewing!

as described in the iTunes app store. VisionHunt(TM) v2.5 is a vision aid tool for the blind and the visually impaired that uses the phone’s camera to detect colors, paper money and light sources. In brief, VisionHunt identifies about 30 colors. It also detects the 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 US Dollar bills. Finally, VisionHunt detects sources of light, such as switched-on lamps or televisions. VisionHunt is fully accessible to the blind and the visually impaired through Voice Over or Zoom.

VisionHunt(tm) Color Edition v2.6 is a vision aid tool for the blind and the visually impaired that uses the phone’s camera to detect colors, the light level and light sources. In brief, VisionHunt identifies about 30 colors. It also detects the 20 Euro and the 10 US Dollar bills as a demo functionality for the VisionHunt full edition app. Finally, VisionHunt detects of light sources such switched on lamps and open windows during the day. VisionHunt is fully accessible to the blind and the visually impaired through Voice Over or Zoom.

VizWiz 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.
 

• VizWiz Social combines automatic and human-powered services to answer visual questions for users with visual impairments.
• VizWiz Social is an iPhone app that allows blind users to receive quick answers to questions about their surroundings. VizWiz Social combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions.

NOTE: Can only be used together with VoiceOver (for blind and partially sighted people).

VO Calendar is a weekly calendar specifically designed to be used with VoiceOver.

The result of this VoiceOver-only design is not only a smoother navigation through the app. It also makes it possible for the VoiceOver speech to give smart summaries depending on the context. This prevents you from having to go through each event
Individually.

Existing events are automatically synchronized. If you prefer not to type, you can record voice memos instead.

You can use VO Calendar with the VoiceOver gestures you are used to.

VO Starter is the first app to offer blind and visually impaired iOS users training on the built in screen reader, VoiceOver. For more information, visit our web site at iaccessibility.net
 

VOCalc brings you a basic calculator which you can use without reading glasses.

The user interface is designed with readability for low vision users in mind. For this, high contrast and big clear fonts are used.

VOCalc is optimized for use with VoiceOver.

Calculator features:

Expression entry is done with formula visible, like 2x(5-4). This way you always now where the result comes from and can verify the input.

Access to past calculations is only one button away as history is saved as you go. Previous expressions can be seamlessly modified for new calculations.

This is a utility to help visual impaired persons to get a quick view of the surrounding environment by the camera.It helps you to detect walls,doors,windows,light sources.You can use it to know object's colors .
This application convert image from the back camera to sound . It scans from left to right ,one to four times per second .A pixel from the image generate a tone at pitch from 440HZ to 15000HZ,the brightness controls the loudness of the tone. The pixels from the top generate high pitch sounds , and the pixels from the bottom of the image generate low pitch sounds . There are about 30 pixels generate sounds at the same time ,like 30 peoples sing together with different loudness.

Voice Book VO is a Facebook application designed specifically for those who use the Apple iOS Voice Over accessibility features. Basic Facebook functionality is finally available for the blind, low-vision, dyslexic, or other print-disabled people.

Imagine being able to quickly and comfortably scan your news feed, post your status, comment on and like items. You can now keep up with your family and friends in the medium they are accustomed to without the frustration of a partially accessible app or having to resort to a PCs screen reader that is often confused by Facebook's site.

The new way to access printed information for print and visually impaired!

VOICEYE is the smartphone application enabling those with print impairments to access printed information using a VOICEYE code on the printed material.

Information regarding the VOICEYE code on the printed material:

Cooking and would like to set a timer, but your hands are dirty?

Can't see the time remaining because the font is too small?

VOTimer is a countdown timer with big buttons and clear font. You can even set and launch the timer with a voice command in plain English.

With an iPhone you can silence and pause the alarm using the proximity sensor.

VOTimer is ideal for low vision users and is fully VoiceOver friendly.

ZoomContacts is the perfect “Large Print” contact application for iPad users who have difficulty seeing the small text on their screen.

ZoomContacts uses Apple’s internal Contacts database to store and manage information but presents it using multiple font size / color combination choices. This makes it easier on the eyes for those folks who could use a little visual assistance.