Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Monday, on the occasion of Handicap week, he presents new aids for the visually impaired and the hearing impaired.
This morning starts the European week for the employment of people with disabilities.
You are going to tell us about these innovations that facilitate the professional integration of people with disabilities.
It is all the more important that with the Covid-19 crisis, we are pushing teleworking and we are doing a lot of things on the internet.
However, most websites are not suitable for people with disabilities.
This is therefore an opportunity to remind people that there are technologies that will automatically widen the clickable areas for people with tremors.
Magnify characters and optimize contrasts when you are visually impaired.
Or, change the font to make it more readable by dyslexics
Several startups are working on these tools such as Facil'iti.
The advantage for the site owner is that there is nothing to do.
Today, we also do a lot of videoconferences.
Is there a way to integrate the hearing and visually impaired?
The latest versions of the software will, for example, make live transcripts and subtitle everything that is said during the videoconference.
This kind of technology now allows deaf people to have real telephone conversations.
Google is working on it.
The idea: transcribe everything the other person says into text on the phone screen.
And respond by typing a sentence that will be pronounced by voice synthesis.
At the end of the line, it feels like you're having a classic voice conversation.
While the deaf person will have a purely textual exchange.
These are the kinds of innovations that really get everyone involved.