Nokia Beta Labs has recently released a beta version of a potentially helpful mobile application for the blind and the visually impaired. The beta application utilizes mobile phone’s vibration as an alternative feedback to the tactile experience of a braille. Personally I have always been interested in this field. I am also very glad that some company is showing some interest to add accessibility features to phones. However, it’s hard to agree with the approach and it doesn’t really seem to satisfy the needs. The software seems to be a derivative of a fund-lacking project that tries to come up with a next-best solution without trying to add additional hardware. Even the current TTS(Text-to-Speech) system seems like a perfectly better solution to me. Anyway, the software is vailable for download.

via:
Engadget