AbleText vs Haptics

With AbleText you can take a photo of text from a book or paper with the high quality camera in your iPad. The photo can be manipulated with high contrast colours. Then transform this photo in to digital text. The text size can be made larger or smaller for easy reading. The text can be read out loud in the languages you have on your device. The text can be copied, shared or used in other applications.

Hapics: Pocket Edition is an app for learning haptic communication and guidance through the use of signals. Explore a dictionary of 220+ haptic signs with clear descriptions, video and audio, available in English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Arabic. Search signs, save favourites, create your own custom lists and share them with others. Text works offline and high contrast mode is available as an accessibility option. Text size follows your device settings. Social haptic communication, commonly referred to as haptics, is a standardized method for providing visual and environmental information and social feedback to an individual with vision loss or a combined vision and hearing loss, via touch signals on the body. The purpose of this app is to organize and present a standardized methodology for haptic communication so that everyone may use this method in a uniform and predictable manner. This standardization will permit receivers and providers to use these unique signals anywhere in the world.