Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Apple Earns Patent for Accessibility Feature Invented for Poor Vision Users

Apple has been granted a patent today for the invention of its touch screen display which provides accessibility to the blind and visually impaired. Functions include the ability to recognize non-location based gestures and simple magnification of certain parts of the screen for comfortable reading. Who would have known that behind the gestures we use to activate zoom functions daily lie a set of velocity vectors and pre-determined ratios. Amazing!

Read article here.


 
 

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