The world has become different thanks to developing systems, and the concept of digitalization has become indispensable in our lives.
Previously, we were working indirectly to solve a problem, but now we are eliminating multiple problems at the same time with a single button or application.
In this direction, with the development of technology, the ongoing problems of certain segments of society have also disappeared, of which the most prominent audience has become the blind and visually impaired audience.
Blind and visually impaired people have started to master many areas thanks to VoiceOver like programs available on phones today, while resorting to primitive ways such as “memorizing numbers, memorizing the keys of devices” even before they could use a phone.
For example, while it may seem complicated to access an institution's website and take advantage of the facilities there before, blind and visually impaired users have started to have more details when browsing websites thanks to the audio simulation feature provided by BlindLook.
Previously, the blind and visually impaired people who had to constantly remember something in a system based on rote can easily learn many things that they have forgotten today from their phone and computer.
Again, while a blind or visually impaired user was thinking about “how do I use a phone and computer” before, today he/she is faced with problems that can be solved in a smaller framework, such as “how can applications be more accessible”, “this program should be designed more suitable for blind and visually impaired users”.
Is there any problem with this development?
As with any changing and developing system, there are absolute problems in the accessibility process of blind and visually impaired people.
We can express these problems with a few examples, such as the failure of the new dynamite to meet the accessibility criteria with the development of technology, the process of adapting a blind and visually impaired person to the new development, and the developers being aware of the accessibility.
In this direction, it will also be possible for us to clearly say that the solution has come by itself thanks to the developing technology as long as we have not created the problems.
In this article, we told you about the technology-based development of visually impaired people, looked at the reasons why the development process was disrupted and expressed what is needed as a solution.
The technology did not stop while we were reading this article and continued to develop again, many problems were solved again.
Now it's time to make those solutions accessible, if not accessible, then use them on an equal footing with everyone!!!
Author: Kadir Ahıska / BlindLook Team
