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Facebook for the Visually Impaired

With Facebook being more popular than ever across all generations, there has been a greater focus on improving the user experience for those with disabilities. The school I work at utilizes an extremely powerful tool called TapTapSee for its visually impaired students. TapTapSee has scanners and image identification software to analyze pictures to identify objects that are in the picture.

Students would take pictures and the app would vocalize what the objects were in the picture they took such as mountain, body of water, campfire, etc. This not only helps if they wanted to share a picture but also in learning what other people are posting. They could see that their friend may be swimming or relative could be on vacation. It’s not only compatible with Facebook but is very useful for any other social media with pictures (Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr). Please feel free to take a look at this app and share with any people that could benefit from such a great and helpful app []