Throughout my life I have never dealt with a visually impaired person, never had a friend who can’t see and never knew about their problems and how their life looks like. As a Computer Scientist i thought they definitely have enough support from technology since we are in 2015 and i used to see many graduation projects focused on helping blind people 10 years ago. Sadly, that was found to be untrue.

The Shock

This year I had my first experience with a Visually Impaired friend. She is a highly educated intellect. She is independent and can do everything by herself even cooking. To cut it short, she is more productive and valuable than many lazy guys out there with 2 useless working eyes.

As a curious entrepreneur and a post-grad student who was studying Computer Vision at that time; i was observing how she manages to do everything, what are the difficulties and what Apps and Tools she uses. I was always asking her and myself “How can technology help in your daily life”. One day we conducted an experiment to check whether Mobile Apps can help her navigate and cross the streets or not.

The overall conclusion of my experience was