Inspires me to think much more about Universal Design and the importance of general accessibility. I thought about light sources, and my interview I did for Get Lamp.First, I saw one of my beautiful salt lamps in its various shades of orange, another with its pink and rose colors, and the third kind in glowing pink and red. Then I remembered that you actually need light to see, and it probably couldn’t see much at night. After realizing that the screen curtain also disables the camera, I turned it off, but it still have very dark colors. When I first tried it at three o’clock in the morning, I couldn’t figure out why it just reported black. I can see some light and color, but just in blurs, and objects don’t really have a color, just light sources. I have never experienced this before in my life. My favorite part is his realization that, with an app called Color Identifier his iPhone can *tell* him verbally what colors he’s “seeing.” However, he mistakenly tries it for the first time in the dark: Stirring description by a blind person about the power of accessible media. You will not be able to access the Premium section of The Straits Times website unless you are already a subscriber.IPhone for the blind. Experiment with sample images including color-blind simulations. This is similar to my online tool Coblis Color. CVDSimulation: Simulate the different types of color vision deficiency. See data about the selected color, including the probability of each name, with the info button. 20 iPhone Apps for the Color Blind ColorNaming: Name a color from an image or the live picture while usually pointing to it. Or just point the camera to see the name of the color at the center. Aipoly Vision (iOS, Free)- Aipoly is an object and color recognizer app that helps persons who are blind, visually impaired, and color blind to understand their. Take or choose a picture and tap to find the color at any point. For similar stories, go to /premium/singapore. Color ID (Color Identify) can tell you the name and content of any color with a tap. Its an Augmented Reality app for discovering the names of the colors around you The color names are fun and specific: Paris Daisy, Lavender Rose, Moon Mist, and many more. Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time.
This article was first run in The Straits Times newspaper on December 2, 2013. This free app is available for download on iTunes. But as teenagers, everyone wants to look good.”
He said: “People who are colour-blind may end up choosing outfits where the colour combination doesn’t match. Polytechnic student Chiew Jun Yong, 19, who cannot differentiate the colours purple and blue, thinks the “match” function would be useful for young people. It also has a “test” function for users to check if they are colour-blind. The app has since been tested and expanded to include other functions like “match”.Īll users have to do is take a picture of their outfit and select the colours they want for their tops and bottoms and the app will tell them if the colours go well together. “I liked joining cables together, but I needed help from my parents to help me differentiate the colours… So I decided to come up with an app that would help colour-blind users track colours on the fly,” said the 20-year-old who is now a full-time national serviceman. The idea of creating such an app was first mooted in 2011 by former NP student Hang Zhi Cheng, who suffers from red-green colour blindness.Īs a computer enthusiast, having this condition made it difficult for him to tell apart colour-coded computer cables. The rest of the team is made up of 10 students – most of whom have since graduated – and lecturers from the polytechnic.
He is part of the team behind this app which is available on Android devices. “The colour identification function will help users to, for example, tell apart the colours green and red on the MRT map,” said Mr Andrew Tan, 36, a lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s (NP) School of Infocomm Technology.