As technology has developed, the number of digital devices accessible to the blind and visually impaired has also started to increase significantly. Before that, a blind and visually impaired user would move by heart on key phones and keep it in mind constantly so as not to forget the operation he/she would do. However, in today's technology, they can manage almost all of their information through smartphones without worrying about forgetting.
How do they do it? How do the blind and visually impaired use a phone?
Screen reader programs such as VoiceOver and TalkBack, which are available on phones, tell the blind and visually impaired user what actions they are doing on the screen as audio feedback. Thanks to the finger gestures defined on the screen reader, the user can use the phone in a practical way. For example, a user who sees the button touches the corresponding button once with one finger to activate it, while a blind or visually impaired user hears the name of the button once when he touches it with one finger, and again when he/she double-taps this button, he activates the corresponding button.
Of course, this is not the whole stage of use, but if we wanted to talk about it in our article, we would have covered pages of it. Because, as we mentioned above, technology is developing day by day, and screen readers are also gaining new hardware in the process. While screen readers have mastered the new hardware during this development process, applications that host transactions that everyone uses (such as banking, shopping, e-commerce, eating, and drinking) continue to develop every day on the one hand. That's where BlindLook comes in. It is developing Audio Simulation technology so that the blind and visually impaired users will be instantly informed of every new feature that is developing. Thanks to audio simulation technology, the user can focus directly on performing the desired operation without going through long and tedious processes such as which button was where and which button was working when he/she entered the application. Again, BlindLook eliminates the accessibility problem and provides ease of use by reporting problems that a blind, visually impaired user may encounter to application developers in this process.
Stay tuned to see how technology is developing on the part of the blind, what accessibility technologies are, how blind users are adapting to this process.
Author: Kadir Ahıska / BlindLook Team
