Section 5 Take Picture Ask Question Apps
Be My Eyes – Helping blind see
This app allows a visually impaired person to show a person with normal vision an object. Then ask what it is?
iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/be-my-eyes-helping-blind-see/id905177575?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bemyeyes.bemyeyes
Website: http://www.bemyeyes.org/
BeSpecular - Help The Blind
A visually impaired person takes a picture and then asks a question of someone with the app. This can solve the everyday questions that visually impaired people have.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bespecular-help-the-blind/id1068947453?mt=8
TapTapSee
This app helps someone with a visual impairment figure out what object they are looking at.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/taptapsee-blind-visually-impaired/id567635020?mt=8
VizWiz
You take a picture of an object then you record a question. You can submit it to a search engine or have human workers answer your question by looking at the picture. I had to watch the video on this one because I was impressed with the entire concept.
https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id439686043?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4