On this Accessibility Day you can do something beautiful with your smartphone: install Be My Eyes. Through this app you lend your eyes to people who are blind.
Lend your eyes with Be My Eyes
Do you want to volunteer to help people with disabilities? Then Be My Eyes is the most accessible way without it taking you much time. Blind people use their smartphone’s camera to show you something. You watch and answer questions. For example, what is on the label of a food can, or what can be seen in a photo.
As soon as a person asks for help via the app, several volunteers will receive a message. The first person to respond is connected with the person seeking help. In this way, the person seeking help does not have to wait long and you do not have to feel guilty if you cannot answer the call.
At the time of writing, nearly a million volunteers are enrolled to serve 73,000 blind people, but more people are always needed. Unfortunately, you cannot set multiple languages at the same time in the app. So if you choose Dutch, you can help non-English speaking people.
If you register yourself, you will not be immediately disturbed throughout the day. So writes Christopher 79 to his review in the App Store: “It gives me satisfaction to really be able to do something for someone else. I don’t often get requests. Once a month on average. So you don’t lose much time with it. ”
Artificial intelligence
More and more apps for people with visual impairments are using artificial intelligence to describe the world. This technology is constantly improving, making blind and partially sighted people with a smartphone in hand more independent. Until this technology is perfected, an app like Be My Eyes is an ideal way to combine the technology of smartphones with the intelligence of people themselves.
Download Be My Eyes
You can download the Be My Eyes app in the App Store via the link below.
The iPhone and accessibility
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