Tech for Change — How Developers Can Boost Performance in a Braille Tablet With the Qualcomm
Jan 30, 2020 12:45 PM ET
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Originally found on Digital Trends
Mobile developers make a lot of assumptions in creating apps, but one of the biggest is that users can see the screen. What do you do when you can’t assume that?
Making a tablet useful to vision-impaired users takes tight integration between special hardware (keyboard, screen, camera) and software (braille reading application and encoding/decoding algorithms). Keeping it useful for the long haul takes smartphone-caliber processing and continuous Android updates.
