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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.
Read article here.
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