Perkins is one of the oldest education and supply resources for the visually impaired, sharing accessible webinars, library materials, and webcasts. Perkins is well-known for founding the first school for the blind in 1829 and for creating several different Braille devices.
This comprehensive navigation and mobility app helps users identify distances, locations, and customizable landmarks by creating an auditory map of the world. Users can find out what is in their immediate vicinity or plot out their course to a destination using public transportation or walking routes.
BlindSquare is the world’s most widely used accessible GPS-app developed for the blind, deafblind and partially sighted. Paired with third-party navigation apps, BlindSquare’s self-voicing app delivers detailed points of interest and intersections for safe, reliable travel both outside and inside.
Prizmo is a photo-based app that allows users to scan documents to PDF using advanced text-to-speech features. Prizmo utilizes OCR (Optimal Calendar Recognition) and is available in 23 languages.
Tap Tap See is a mobile camera app designed with the visually impaired user in mind. Tap Tap See uses a voiceover function to take photos of any object, identifying it out loud for the user.