Innovation… The blind can now take pictures

Luis Perez may be legally blind, but he’s able to take incredible photos thanks to the iPhone.

Perez is a higher education learning consultant based in Florida who has a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which gives him tunnel vision. He only has about eight degrees of vision, and his condition could eventually result in total blindness.

But thanks to accessibility features on the iPhone, he’s found a calling as an amateur photographer. Specifically, Perez uses an iPhone feature called VoiceOver, which dictates what’s on a phone’s screen as visually impaired users swipe and tap around. It gives them the ability to do everything on an iPhone that a sighted person can.

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– techinsider

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