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Google’s making it easier for people with low vision to find objects using their phone
Plus a handful of other AI-powered accessibility upgrades.
“As you move your camera around the room, Lookout will notify you of the direction and distance to the item,” Eve Andersson, Google’s senior director of product inclusion, equity, and accessibility, wrote in the blog post. Now, the app is gaining a text-free mode, which Andersson says is intended “to help make communicating more accessible with cognitive differences, literacy challenges and language barriers.” Project Gameface, which enables people to control a computer’s cursor using head movements and facial gestures, is also expanding from PC to Android, and developers can start tapping into it through GitHub.
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