Google will update your Lookout tool, on Android, so that you can help people with visual impairments who purchase items from your restaurant. The new recurso is called Find and is able to locate certain categories of articles, instructing the user to choose them.
After reviewing one of these categories, the user needs to install a smartphone camera for his friends. O Find, then, the direction and distance instructions to choose the desired object. Among the options there are doors, copos, banheiros and cars, among others.
As Lookout updates are announced on the Dia Global accessibility awareness forum. O Lookout has been around for a few years. She is able to see your old words, places and documentsajudando pesoas cegas ou com baixa visão.
Fortunately, all the resources are available in português, to identify the lessons and moedas de reais. As the descriptions of the AI-generated images, released earlier this year, are also available in English, therefore.
Google also found new features for the Look to Speak app. So, it is possible to listen to phrases using the movements of your elders – a selected phrase is said out loud on your cell phone. A new text mode update, using only emojis, symbols and photos, to make communication more accessible.
Maps with accessibility information
Além from Lookout and Look to Speak, or Maps also received new information. The web version of the platform provides information on shopping cart accessibility, including banheiros and station details.
The Maps apps for Android and iOS will also allow you to view turn-by-turn voice directions and playback text in any language or language available without service. These recursos must help people to get by or have low vision.
Therefore, facilities can increase information on transmission by Auracast. Auracast allows audio to be transmitted to different Bluetooth devices at the same rate and can be used for accessibility content.
Project Gameface is coming to Android
In our accessibility announcements, Google will release Project Gameface for Android on GitHub. On initiative, impaired people can use facial expressions and head movements to control the mouse cursor in games.
And Apple is also working on resources of the type. For a quarter of a week, it announced that the iPhone and iPad use the front camera to rastrear os olhos dos usuáriosallowing disabled people to use smartphones and tablets.
Information on: Google, Engadget, The edge, TechCrunch
