Drawing For The Blind

Posted by timothy on Monday July 1, 2002 @12:12AM from the but-not-the-colorblind dept.

idletask writes: "Hesham Kamel, a student from University of Berkeley who lost his vision 17 years ago due to a surgeon error, imagined and implemented IC2D (Integrated Communication 2 Draw), a program allowing visually impaired people in general to create computer graphics. The interface to the program is a mere telephone keypad, and it uses voice synthesis to communicate with the user. In fact, this program reveals, through its testers, that yes, blind people know how to draw, and they're as good at it as other people. More information on this program can be found here (1) and here (2). Story found on ArsTechnica."

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Good? by buzzbomb · 2002-07-01 00:18 · Score: 4, Funny

blind people know how to draw, and they're as good at it as other people.

Well, if the poster had seen any of my "artwork", he'd know that that isn't saying very much.
Great! by NASAKnight · 2002-07-01 00:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Now I can play pictionary with blind people WITHOUT feeling like I have an unfair advatange!

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Drawing for the blind? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-01 03:10 · Score: 2, Funny

I guess this was how the Pontiac Aztek was designed...
Use of color by Jack+Porter · 2002-07-01 04:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Unfortunately the system doesn't appear to be able to tell the operator that red links on green background are very difficult to read!