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Special Skill of Visually Impaired Persons 19 - Creative Way to Use Phone for Dining and Travel

Nowadays, smart phones have been integrated into daily life, and everyone can't live without their phone. Smart phones can provide functions such as entertainment, finding information or chitchat for public. But for visually impaired persons, there are other unexpected ways to use their phone.

Most of you would like to take photos first before having the meal. Some people with low vision also have this habit, but their purpose are not taking photos for food. They would like to use the lens of the camera to enlarge the text on the menu, so that they can order by themselves without asking others.

Playing mobile photo

Checking schedule for transport probably is one of the must-do thing before travel. In addition to using this function for visually impaired persons, there is also another function in most transport applications that could remind you to get off the bus with sound alert. As long as the destination is selected, the application will start to remind phone holder 2 stops ahead of the destination stop. This function allows visually impaired persons to go to their destination smoothly even they cannot see where they are.

Transport application photo

If you think the above functions are very useful, you may recommend them to your friends so that they can also enjoy the convenience brought by technology!

use camera to enlarge the view