A new, innovative app was developed at Stanford University over the summer that helps blind tablet users write on their touchscreen devices. Technology Review at MIT reports:
Touchscreens have one other feature though—they’re smart. The team realized that they didn’t have to make keys in a set location that the user had to find; the user could simply set his fingers down, and the keys could orient themselves accordingly. Each time the user lifts all his fingers off the screen and sets them down again, the keyboard would adjust to the fingers’ new location.
The video below is great, and I absolutely love when Sohan Dharmaraja says, “Instead of having fingers that find the buttons, we have buttons that find the fingers.”
