Every day technology advances and makes life and learning easier for many people, without any exclusion. We mentioned exclusion because technological developments are also geared towards help people with learning difficulties or physical limitations.
These special applications are developed by professionals in the area, promoted by different foundations so that they can be free and accessible to all people. Each one has a different motive and objective, but never outside the general objective, which is to help these people.
In this post, we will show you a list of different apps that are dedicated to strengthening the learning of these people, and facilitating the entry of these people into the world of technology.
List of the best applications for blind people on Android and iOS
The technological world offers benefits to all peopleamong them including those who present limiting conditions, such as blindness.
Although not many mention them, there are excellent applications for Android and iOS that provide technological access for the blind:
Google TalkBack
It is an application designed for all Android devices. It works through voxy vibration responses where the user thanks to the you can know what you are doing. We can choose the language of the audio, and this application comes by default on Android devices, we just have to access settings, then go to Accessibility and select TalkBack.
siri
With Siri, the voice recognition system is very adaptable according to need, being able to configure the speed of speech, the type of voice and others. Although the only detail is that It is only available for iOS devices. It does not require any installation, because it can be found in the iPad or iPhone settings, and is activated by selecting in Siri.
voice over
Voice Over describes everything on the screen, and what we select, as well as: time, call, battery life and others… the Person only has to move their finger on the touch pad, to be able to listen to each activity or selection made. Like the previous App, it can only be found on iOS devicesand to activate it we go to Settings, Then in General, we seek Accessibility and finally we select voice over.
TapTapSee
with this app any person with difficulties or visual impairment, you can identify each object from a photo. To do so, they only have to select the screen with a double tap, and it will take an image of the object, and immediately the application will emit a voice message, indicating what object it is. We can find this application available for Android and iOS, an extremely useful tool.
Google Brailleback
To close this section of applications for people with visual difficulties, we leave this last App, which allows blind people learn braille. To do so, you only have to use bluetooth, and connect it together with a braille display, having TalkBack installed, so that You can translate the exercises.
The best apps for deaf people on Android and iOS
As well as there are applications that make life easier for the blind userwe also have an App that allows people, enjoy technology with fewer limitations.
If you are interested in knowing what they are, here are five of the most interesting:
signator
This is the app with more recommendations, endorsed directly by the Association for the Standardization of Sign Languages (ANICOLS). The objective of this software is to translate into sign languages. It has 12,000 words in its dictionary, related to sign language.
Signslator is not only a personal translatorcan also be used to send messages in sign language, via Facebook and Twitterand in this way the lives of people with their conditions can communicate and make use of social networks.
Sign YOU
With SignART all deaf people will be able to use their sign language, to understand movies, plays, documentaries and others. Its main objective is to use the signs as a kind of subtitling for all programming. This app was created by the CNSE Foundation together with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sportswhere its sole objective is to allow people with hearing disabilities to find accessible cultural spaces in each city.
audage
This application was created with the purpose that people with or without hearing loss can enjoy a more practical and dynamic teaching. This teaches the water cycle, its use and conservation, with animation and sufficiently illustrative texts that facilitate learning. It is an application created by the National Center for Accessibility Technology (CENTAC) dedicated to the CNSE foundation, which allows a better education in primary schools for children with hearing disabilities.
App to contact the emergency service 112
Although this app not available worldwideis a good proposal for people with hearing impairment and reading-writing difficulties can contact the emergency service 112.
By simply calling the emergency number, from any Smartphone with the App installed, the exact location of the person is provided, thanks to geo-location services. The app offers a ambulance, fire, and police icon so that you can specify the type of assistance that is required. The Department of the Interior of the Generalitat (FESOCA) is in charge of continuing to develop this application, together with its association networks.
signame.es
With signame, more than allowing deaf people to communicate, teaches us to communicate through sign language, and teaching is through explanatory videos. His intention is to allow children with intellectual disabilities a second way of communicating. This idea was developed and promotedby the Vodafone Foundation, together with the Garrihou Foundation.
Accessibility apps that make life easier for people with special conditions
To conclude with the post, we have decided leave a list of applications that make life easier to those people with special conditions.
In this list we include App that will allow you to develop the child suffering from autism and other diseases that make learning difficult:
virtea.io
tack was developed by the Murcian company Answare Tech, and its main objective is to expand the sense of learning to people with the diagnosis of Autism, or also known by its acronym (ASD). The application mechanism consists of recreating different scenarios that may be overlooked by the patient, such as: go to the doctor, get a haircut, go to the dentist, wait for the bus. In short, this software acts as an activity reminder for these types of people.
Tur4all.es
This application dedicated to people with physical disabilitiesguides people with wheelchairs, where to go sightseeing without any limitation, that is, places where there are no barriers for a wheelchair.
Although we first named wheelchair. with this app people with these conditions will no longer feel isolated, due to the different limitations that some sites have because they are not prepared for the visit of these people. We can find it for free, plus its language is configurable.
BeMyEyes.com
Be my eyes, it’s an app created by Hans Jorge Wiberg, launched in 2012. It has a mechanism dedicated to helping people with low visibility, so that they can recognize the objects that we commonly have in our day to day.
The system consists of contacting other people through a video call which has a maximum time of 30 secondsperformed each time the visually impaired user requests help through the App. A notification is sent to a number of volunteers registered on the platform. The volunteer, upon receiving the notification, responds to the request and connects, sending the video, so that the person can be helped to solve the task. It is an application adapted to more than 180 languages.
I am capable
It is an application created and released to the market for free by the Mapfre Foundation and the GMP Foundation. The main task of this small software is to support people with intellectual disabilities. The only detail for users is that it is simply available for Android, but together with Google, they work synchronously, bringing together all its features. as is he.
Day to day
Day by day is a visual journal, which provides support to people with autism or communication difficulties, allowing the person with the condition save in a schematic and understandable way all the actions and activities carried out during the day. Activities are recorded in the form of photography and illustration, also including an excellent task organizer, along with a calendar that sends notifications, reporting the activities to be carried out.
Lazzus.com
Lazzus is an application of Australian origin, and it is a virtual assistant that helps people with recognition difficulties and low visual capacity to move around, creating a completely auditory field. This narrates everything that is around us, indicating pedestrian crossings, crosswalks, stairs, and others. Works very synchronized with Google Places and Open Street Dataso that it can be more precise in its indications.
special words
This application allows people with learning difficulties quickly recognize words, identify them and associate them with pictures and sounds. Its mechanism consists of a kind of game, with different levels of difficulty, so that the child is motivated to go beyond each goal. It has a dictionary of 96 words, and is fully configurable whatever the preferred language.
Special Numbers
Special numbers, is an application developed to help children who have special conditions, preventing them from fast learning. The purpose is that the child with this condition can recognize, compare, order and select the numbers in an educational and fun way. This application in the institutions that have used this mechanism, has seen a high percentage of learning, where the presence of educational psychologists and teachers is also necessary.
Series 1
Finally we leave an excellent App that allows all children with learning difficulties, order objects, recognize them, differentiate them by color, size, as well as other qualitative characteristics. This game has different boards progressive difficulty levels. It is intended that each child who makes use of this App can increase the ability to recognize objects and know how to find the differences of each one.
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