Blind Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone app helps the blind ID currency

by Chris Ward (Mar 10th, 2011)

Identifying different denominations of dollar bills has long been a problem for the sight-impaired in the US. A US$1 bill is the same size and shape as a $100 bill, making them hard to differentiate. Many use techniques like folding different bills into different shapes, but this doesn't help ...

Blind user explains why he loves the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th, 2010)

Here's a wild little story that made its way around the blogonets this past weekend -- it was originally posted in June, but it got recirculated on Twitter, and we first heard it from Steve Troughton-Smith. Austin Seraphin is a blind person, and he says that getting an iPhone changed his life ...

The iPad could be the best mobile accessibility device on the market

by David Winograd (Jun 1st, 2010)

In 1995 Dr. Norman Coombs, a blind professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology and chairman of EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information wrote that the rapid adoption of a graphical user interface (GUI) would close the door on computing for the visually impaired. This was in ...

Does the iPhone shaft the blind?

by Erica Sadun (Jan 10th, 2007)

I spent a good hour or so this morning without my glasses. The little plastic nosie-thing fell off and I had to wait while a new plastic nosie-thing got installed. During that time, I was pretty much blind as a bat--assuming that bats are legally blind, extremely myopic, astigmatic, and can only ...

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