Seeking to develop app to assist in daily activities

Hi Joe,

I think that the responses you get are going to be quite varied on this subject. There are lots of apps that are like Be My Eyes either already in the App Store or in beta; we don't need another app like that.

What is your specialty? If you can tell us what area of independence for the blind you would like to concentrate on, we can more easily help you try to design the concept for an app. What we do not want is yet another developer who tries to take control of our lives by providing "assistance" which we would more accurately term "interference".

I really hope that you are a developer who can come up with a competely original idea for an app, and then get lots of money from it. Good luck!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

if this app is to help with activities I'm really looking for something to read text on packages bottles and cans. I have taptapsee for telling me colours and what pictures are on labels. some times if I buy a box of milk there might be a recipe at the back but I haven't found a good software to read out the whole thing. So that is one of the main things I would like

I'd love an app that would prevent me from having to crawl around on the floor looking for something I dropped, before my guide dog snarfs it away.

How about being sensible with your app requests? Unless you want another remake of be my eyes, no app will ever help you find something you dropped on the floor. This will always require a sighted person or skills you obtain. On the subject of app remakes, digiteyes scans barcodes so you know what the label reads. If you want to have an app that reads the back of a box, try KNFB reader. It works wonders. For the first comment, cheers 100% with your idea. It's nice that sighted world wants to "help" by doing research or building apps, but really? we are not lab mice. Are we truly a race or alien enough that the sighted world has no clue how we work? I tell you, we are not lower than everyone else.

An object on the floor is, by definition something that is sensible. Able to be sensed. An app could alert to the location of something with tones variable in pitch and frequency. Waving the phone's camera over an area could indicate an object's location, just as light detectors detect sensible light.

We are spit balling here. Don't be so quick to judge.

It is probably not the kind of project you'r looking for, but an app that gave us full access to tagged pdfs on the mac would really help a lot of blind people. Having full access to pdf's would positively affect many aspects of life, from filling out taxes, to education, and many other things.