She's albino and has poor eyesight, as most albino people do.
She's not distracted, she's utilizing tools to make learning more accessible for herself.
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She's albino and has poor eyesight, as most albino people do.
She's not distracted, she's utilizing tools to make learning more accessible for herself.
That is too bad. To take an example of similar tech in use for me without disabilities, my credit card app has a function to scan, interpret and store receipts for purchases. It automatically finds the receipt edged, straightens it out to an rectangle, enhances contrast, OCR-interprets and saves. One click.
I wish such existing tech could be brought to those with disabilities too.
It's great that they have these accessibility features; but the ad about the visual impairment fails.
If she has a condition, she MUST sit closer to the front; I'm sure people would make accommodations.
The font on all the features in the Mac is very small to the font she used to convert the slides.
Capturing something on display means the student misses out on a lot of oral communication.
If she has a condition, she MUST sit closer to the front; I'm sure people would make accommodations.
The font on all the features in the Mac is very small to the font she used to convert the slides.
Capturing something on display means the student misses out on a lot of oral communication.
Based on tech that is widely available, adjustments like those shown in the ad are not needed in other products. But maybe the ad was scripted to show every adjustment function available to the user and not the normal workflow. If that is the workflow, the ad clearly shows the student missing out on a lot of oral communication just to capture something on display. In my experience, the live oral presentation is key in higher education. Text and graphs are usually available offline to be studied at any given time.
For me, this is why it either is bad tech or a bad ad. Hopefully it is just a bad ad, but it doesn't do anyone any good to depict magnifier in a real life example this way.
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Yeah I have the same feeling. "AI for the rest of us" slogan is similar to "the computer for the rest of us" for the original Macintosh. But Macintosh commercials didn’t make people who cannot figure out how to use an IBM PC look lazy, dumb, and complacent.
The young lady has oculocutaneous albinism (possibly type 2), a genetic disorder, or one of its differentials: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, or Waardenburg syndrome. This is a great use of technology to assist those not as fortunate as the rest of us.
I did not know that! That definitely explains the ads
Also holy cow are some of the comments in here are just downright putrid 😂
she IS pLaYInG oN hEr cOMpUtER aND nOt pAYiNg aTtENtIoN
Did you stop watching halfway through to make that boomer take or did you all somehow miss they literally make a point of showing her raising her hand to indicate that she was, in fact, engaging with the lecture??
Also all this concern about the lecture being recorded is… strange, even if she didn’t ask for permission Magnifier looks like it’s just a live feed of what’s going on that allows you to take screenshot of things (like she does when she runs OCR on the text), it doesn’t appear to me at any point that she’s just recording the whole thing - am I missing something?
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You mean because the people in the ads are very young? That's a great point. I wish they would focus on (us) older folk because maybe they'd make an iPhone keyboard that I can actually type on without making 1 typing mistake for every five characters.
Not true and frankly an ignorant comment. You’ve made a lot of assumptions about the supposed benefits of sitting CLOSER.
“Blindness” or “visual impairment” will be totally different experiences to the beholder of said condition.
Blind does not mean pitch-black and partially blind does not mean seeing double or blurred vision. Every person experiences visual acuity difficulties differently and simply sitting CLOSER is not a panacea.
In that example, it is quite possible and plausible that she has limited or no central vision in both eyes. This means that sitting close to a large board, would be akin to sitting in the front row of an IMAX theatre, having to scan the entire screen by shifting her head left and right all the time. This is very tiring and results in missing information.
You will note in the video that she sat back further, so she could likely get the whole whiteboard in the field of view of her camera and then selected only the text to then change into a high-contrast colour and also reducing it down to a narrow field which would’ve likely been far easier for her to read.
I know this, because that’s exactly what I would do in that situation.
agreed. perhaps they forgot what the API is for it.
lol @ those glasses or more accurately binoculars strapped to her head