HumanWare recently released the
HumanWare Communicator app for
iOS devices. The app is designed to make communication between a deaf-blind person and a sighted person possible.When the conversation is started an introduction is displayed for the sighted user to read. The
deaf-blind person uses a
Bluetooth braille display to type a message to a sighted person, this message appears on the screen of the
iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Then the sighted user can respond using the virtual keyboard and the message will appear on the
refreshable braille display. The conversation can then go back and forth with the
deaf-blind person typing on the braille display and the sighted user typing on the device's virtual keyboard.
HumanWare describes the app as follows,
"The HumanWare Communicator application is intended to establish a text conversation, through a chat window, 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."
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012