Visually Impaired Photographers Waiting for iPad
The iPad is Apple’s newest device that slated to change the way many people use computers in their everyday lives. It is already supposed to be a big hit in the blind community because, like the iPhone, it has accessibility options built in right out of the box. While most would expect a device only controllable by a touch screen to be entirely useless to the visually impaired, Apple has routinely impressed everyone with how easy they have made it for anyone to use their products. With an audio read-back of screen elements as your finger glides over them, the iPad will serve as a great computing option for the visually impaired with its ease of use and little necessary training.
What visually impaired photographers are waiting for is an announcement that the next generation of the iPad will include a camera. Aside from the fact that it would enable people to use video chat services like Skype on the go, it would also give the photographers the largest LCD screen currently attached to a camera. Instead of straining, sometimes without avail, to see the picture on the small screens that most cameras offer, the iPad’s 9.7 inch screen would allow them to take a picture and be able to review it with much greater ease. It will eliminate the vast amount of guesswork that visually impaired photographers currently have to deal with. Also, with the enormous amount of photography applications that will surely be made available, they could edit the photo right then and there and upload it onto the internet if they wished.
With so much new technology being born into the world at such a fast rate, developers need to find a way to set themselves apart from the rest of the pack. Apple has been able to accomplish this due to their streamlined designs and user-friendly interface, but also because they have taken into account that visually impaired people deserve to have the same products as everyone else and that they shouldn’t be forced to purchase more software to make the device usable.
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