Users navigate the app’s features by passing their fingers over various options which are read aloud or Lingering on a particular option produces a beep, indicating that the option has been selected are some features for visually impaired people which make their working easier on the pc.
These app can make calls or send texts but it also provides location-based technologies, which can let users know, for example, when the next bus is coming, which direction they’re facing, or the ability to set location-based reminders.
About 39 million people worldwide are blind, according to the World Health Organization, and 285 million people are visually impaired. Screenreader is also selling Georgie smartphones, Android-based Samsung phones that come pre-installed with the Georgie app.
“The settings are such that you turn on the phone and the app starts. You can’t get out of it unless you go through a sort of unlock feature to do so,” explained Kemp.The app is available worldwide in English. All profits generated by the app go to a charity called Communication for Blind and Disabled People, of which Screen reader is a subsidiary.
You get a help line, which will set up your contacts for you if you want and even come and train you, so there’s a big support mechanism around it
At 150 pounds ($230), the app is more expensive than most apps but Kemp said the price includes support for the app
