Accessibility is one of the great unknowns in technological devices, but essential for people with disabilities. Any of us may need one of them one day, so it’s good to know those hidden features that make technology easier for those who can’t do it with the more usual configurations. Today is accessibility day. Sony is one of the companies that has taken actions to show how it can make it easier for more people to use their products.
One of the most interesting initiatives is the project “With my eyes” (with my eyes, in English), from the company QD Laser. His prototype, Retissa Neoviewer, uses a technology that projects the precise image of the camera’s viewfinder into the background of the user’s retina, so that he sees it perfectly with his own eyes. It is a type of low-intensity laser that, after clinical trials in Japan and Europe, has obtained approval for manufacturing and marketing in the Asian country from Retissa Medical, aimed at people with irregular astigmatism. Some 250 million people around the world suffer from low vision.
Accessibility at a company like Sony that has so many types of devices is a big area. To discover how to improve the use of people with disabilities, systems are used such as a kind of gloves that reproduce the difficulty and pain felt by a person with osteoarthritis in their fingers, or glasses that reproduce different types of visual disabilities.
Special keyboards, operating systems that allow you to see the letters of the menus in a giant size or get to hear the television clearly, are always among the accessibility features. One of Sony’s interesting devices is the Wireless Handy TV Speaker, a small speaker that serves as a remote control for the television, with controls that are very easy to see and use, and that bring the sound closer to the person who has difficulties. hearing aids without the need to increase the screen volume.