Blind Person Challenge! Close eyes while trying to use the internet! just Listen to todays news and top youtbe videos!

in steemit •  7 years ago 

What if you had to just listen to todays news and top youtbe videos without video? "See" if you can still understand whats going on...just listen to a video, live in the world of the blind...Now, do we have a way for blind people to join in what we do here on steemit? When you close your eyes on steemit, or on a steemit article, and there a is a video

I really wish people would add descriptions under each of their videos they post and not just post spam and videos without explanations ...imagine blind peopel having to go through terrible ad spam, ruining the whole experience, we dont need genesis mining link spam as the first thing in our steemit article link description so lets stop spamming on steemit and use the description to describe things, imagine how a blind person uses steemit! they need to have a real accurate synopsis there in the description!

Is Steemit ok for the Blind? Will Steemit work for this Braille smartwatch that promises to deliver all text from any website to the watch so they can read it ? also is there an easy keyboard shortcut activated steemit text to voice program? Some simple way for people to read outloud a steemit article like on Quizlet studying websites? May be a good idea for people who don't want to read articles and just want to have a robot voice read to them the article!

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(Picture of the Dot braille smartwatch that allows the blind to access text on the web using a smartwatch smart braille surface that raises the dots in different orders, to basically "display" braille but for your finger to feel! and the braile dots can "display" the data from websites and usually a "braille" keyboard would cost thousands and be hard to use and be big and bulky and this thing is way better and EVEN works with a smartphone app that links it to your smartphone and lets you open an app that automatically opens your camera, and allows you to use your camera to read some text, basically use your smartphone to "point" at text in a book or on a ticket etc, and it will then translate this physical image text to digital text automatically with existing working OCR systems like in google translate app and photomath...

THEN we use a smartphone text scan to braille app to basically read out any text scanned in from a smartphone camera processed into text and then automatically in real time sent to read out in Braille on the "Dot" Braille SmartWatch! This smartwatch will eventually in the future allow us to fit in a small camera and maybe RasberryPi that can fit and process the image to braille automatically but right now the smartphone app option for blind people to scan surroundings and display the text onto a braille smartwatch automatically seems like great way to help blind people see using technology that already exists! The smartphone app can also just use a robot voice to say out loud the words or sentences they scan in with the camera and OCR app! they really could just have blind people use headphones or one headphone in while this app just announced the text it sees!

I just hope blind people can utilize and use steemit to maybe describe their world and make posts and earn, and is there a way for blind people to trade crypto currencies? Can blind people successfully use QR codes on their smartphones to buy or sell bitcoins at ATMs? US paper money is all the same size and blind people might much rather use bitcoin to make and receive payments as they can use an app that always show how much they type in or just use voice recognition to say "please send $1 worth of bitcoin to" and that will allow them to have control they cant have as long as the US money supply has the same exact size for every bill which hurts the blind, they should be able to determine the value of the bill by the size!

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This is a cool concept--thanks for sharing! There are plenty of options nowadays, such as these glasses for blind person from OrCam. They utilize ocr technology and AI to help the blind with everyday tasks, such as reading and recognizing faces. An important invention to essentially help the blind to see their surroundings--definitely check them out if you haven't already!