Apps for people with visual impairements

Motivation

Commercial products designed for people with visual impairements are often too expensive to be used in a private context. This includes electronic zoom tools. For this user group apps offer an alternate solution. The own smartphone will turn into a zoom tool.

New App Online: weZoom - Magnifier and vision aid

weZoom extends simple magnifying glass apps with high-performance color filters, image sharing, intuitive gesture control and one-hand operation.

 

An overview of the most important functions:

  • High contrast color filter (black and white, black and yellow, blue and white, blue and yellow)
  • Setting the color filter threshold
  • Stepless magnification (up to max. 8x)
  • Exposure compensation
  • Switching between manual focus and auto focus
  • Pause the image (it is still possible to change the magnification)
  • Splitting the image (e.g. with text recognition or massenger apps)

Screenshots for a first impression:

Original image (unfiltered)

Color filter black-yellow (without zoom)

Color filter black-yellow (with zoom)


Color filter black and white (advanced options open)

Color filter blue and white (advanced options open)

Color filter blue and yellow (advanced options open)