and as a student is that there really was no assistive technology that was appropriate for someone like me who had a vision impairment that couldn t be corrected. but i m not blind. i m still actually even able to have a driver s licence. but i still, despite that, have trouble sometimes during normal everyday tasks, like reading the posters here at ces. the app makes it easier for people with low vision to see things around them. it uses customisable smartphone camera filters that users can change to suit their own unique visual impairment. because i have an impairment, it s really easy to fall into the trap of saying, well, i know what s best for these people. i know what they need or what they want. 0ur rebokeh app spent about a year in beta with about 100 beta users, where our sole goal was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year we added or adjusted more
was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year, we added or adjusted more than ten different features. how might the app be useful for looking at something like this? yeah, so i can totally show you. so this is actually really hard for me to differentiate, especially because there s so much going on right here. there s just a lot of images. so what we can do is actually point it up and with one finger it s meant to be one handed so with just one finger, i can kind of zoom up and in. so let s pick one to look at, maybe this picture of a computer and whatnot. what we can do is we can actually add some contrast. oh, wow. ..to make things a little bit brighter. the lights a little bit lighter. we can also add actually colour filters. so this particular screen has a lot of green on it. so there s a whole lot that we can kind of do to. see, now, everything s kind of green. ..but to kind of make certain colours
really was no assistive technology that was appropriate for someone like me. but i have trouble sometimes during normal everyday tasks, like reading the posters here at ces. the app makes it easier for people with low vision to see things around them. it uses customisable smartphone camera filters that users can change to suit their own unique visual impairment. because i have an impairment, it s really easy to fall into the trap of saying, well, i know what s best for these people. i know what they need or what they want. our rebokeh app spent about a year in beta with about 100 beta users, where our sole goal was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year we added or adjusted more than ten different features. how might be useful for looking at something like this?
unique visual impairment. because i have an impairment, it s really easy to fall into the trap of saying, well, i know what s best for these people. i know what they need or what they want. our rebokeh app spent about a year in beta with about 100 beta users, where our sole goal was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year, we added or adjusted more than ten different features. how might the app be useful for looking at something like this? yeah, so i can totally show you. so this is actually really hard for me to differentiate, especially because there s so much going on right here. there s just a lot of images. so what we can do is actually point it up and with one finger it s meant to be one handed so with just one finger, i can kind of zoom up and in. so let s pick one to look at, maybe this picture of a computer and whatnot. what we can do is we can actually add some contrast. oh, wow. ..to make th
really was no assistive technology that was appropriate for someone like me who had a vision impairment that couldn t be corrected. but i m not blind. i m still actually even able to have a driver s licence. but i still, despite that, have trouble sometimes during normal everyday tasks, like reading the posters here at ces. the app makes it easier for people with low vision to see things around them. it uses customisable smartphone camera filters that users can change to suit their own unique visual impairment. because i have an impairment, it s really easy to fall into the trap of saying, well, i know what s best for these people. i know what they need or what they want. 0ur rebokeh app spent about a year in beta with about 100 beta users, where our sole goal was to solicit feedback from people with vision impairment, optometrists, ophthalmologists. and over the course of that year we added or adjusted more than ten different features.