- From: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:50:36 -0700
- To: "'Janina Sajka'" <janina@rednote.net>, "'WAI XTech'" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
That is interesting, I wonder how this will differ from something like OrCam http://www.orcam.com/ Which has a wider scope but also supports pointing as a focus mechanism. -----Original Message----- From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 3:09 PM To: WAI XTech Subject: Finger mounted OCR OK, it's not web, but I found the following fascinating: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/finger-mounted-reading-device-blind-0310 PREDICTION: They'll soon find that audio pitch will work better to guide finger tracking, far better than audio volume. e.g. The sound gets louder. What does that mean? Is the finger too high? Or too low on the page? Even more interesting, though, will be the ability of the user to track through complex page layouts. The challenge of complex layouts has always been one of the greater challenges for OCR based reading systems. With a finger mounted device all the smarts for correctly tracking page layout and getting sense out of the printed text are laid on the user--including the need to effectively skip past graphics and photographs. Janina -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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