From braille to Be My Eyes – there's a revolution happening in tech for the blind -- the guardian

Apps are linking visually impaired people to sighted volunteers as assistive technology enters a new era of connectivity "Connected to other part," my iPhone says to me as I stand somewhere in London's Soho, trying to decipher the letter on the top of a bus stop. "Hello?" says an American woman, reminding me of Scarlett Johansson's disembodied artificially intelligent character from the sci-fi film Her. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/26/braille-be-my-eyes-revolution-tech-for-the-blind-visually-impaired