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Smartphone Enabled By Braille A Breakthrough For Visually Challenged

Braille is a writing style especially for the visually impaired that is traditionally written on papers. With time and advancement in technology, the braille-user can also read the screens of various electronic devices. Instead of writing the letters, small bumps are used on the surface that can be felt by the user through the fingertips. Various combinations of bumps are used to represent numbers and letters and the readers can identify the contents by rubbing their fingertips on the same. Of late, developers have incorporated Braille to the Smartphone for the convenience of the visually impaired users. Smartphone are designed in adherence to a similar mechanism.

Feel on the fingertips

Pins or tiny bumps are used on the screen of the phone. The height of the letters determines the letter or the image that it intends to display. Many of the phones that utilize sound-based applications help visually handicapped to interact with the phone, with ease. With braille sending SMS, reading a text and seeing images is easy. It helps in taking advantage of the technology used in the Smartphone. However the braille letters are not displayed on the screen, the technology is designed such an outline of the images, maps, charts, buttons are created with the help of raised pins and those can be understood with a touch.

Know the facial expression

With the use of this phone, the users can feel the real image of a person on the video chat, or the one that is captured by the phone and fathom the facial expression of their near and dear ones. Interpreting maps and playing games is easy with the aid of braille. The phone scans the text and then translates the same to braille on the tactile screen. The screen of the phone comprises of grids of various pins that move according if an email or an SMS has arrived.

Braille enabling apps

Shape-memory alloy is used in these phones so that that pins expand or contract before and after the use. Apart from the tactile screen, braille is also used on the touchscreen with the help of an open-source app. It makes multitasking easy for the visually challenged. This app is installed in the Smartphone that transforms the screen of the phone to a braille programmed keyboard. You need only six keys that can convert various texts and images to input points. This keyboard fits easily on the touchscreen and helps the users to hold the device in their hand and communicate with people across the world.

Interaction through touch

With this app and device, you can avoid incurring expenses for devices that have separate braille keyboard and will cost you a fortune. It is believed that these devices will be charged reasonable so that it fits the pocket well. Over the years, there has been advancement in the arena of the development of phone for the blind. Be it the Braille Smartphone or the apps, both of these provide information like images, diagrams, graphics to the visually challenged with the help of touch interaction. The devices and the apps is a step towards making technology available to the impaired or challenged population.

Enjoy features of Smartphone

Teaching braille is considered to be expensive in nature as many schools and institutes do not have adequate resources. With the availability of braille enabled devices, it is expected that there might be a surge in the education of this writing style. With these devices, the impaired can enjoy independence and can access the services that are otherwise not available to them. Now, the visually impaired can enjoy the varied features of a Smartphone with the aid of Braille.

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Jack Dsouja is an experienced DBA expert and a blogger. He has been in the industry for almost a decade now. He has authored many articles and papers on cloud computing, server administration, and database management. He enjoys blogging in his spare time. That’s the way He connects with his readers and fans. He recommends valuable resources such as RemoteDBA.com for seamless database administration solutions.

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