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I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc... neat!
EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we're discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.
Oh, I thought this was a joke.
Yeah but no. I think, in a way, they're having your phone's camera assist you if you can't see well.
Yeah, it looks like it's both more detailed navigation for sighted people, and geared towards helping people with difficulty seeing.
Wish it didn't look like to be a proprietary code format, since that severely limits it's viability as a widespread thing.
Seems like it should at least be embossed, have some sort of texture cue no??
I'm disappointed the London underground is using this proprietary thing, rather than QR codes, which have existed forever and are an open standard.
oh is that what these are? I saw something like this on a train station in Boston the other day, assumed it was some new kind of QR code or something
I looked them up after seeing them on trams in Melbourne.
Thats cool & looks useful for alot of people. Type of app my grandma would use for fine print on products.
I hope the doomers didnt get you down too much. Open source is great, but options like this are still better than nothing :)
also, they place the WAI/WCAG banner but the webpage does not validate :PPP nice project tho, fuck the nerds