I saw this on my breakfast cereal box (in the US) and looked it up. A company called Navilens made this to help visually impaired people with things like street signs, etc… neat!

https://navilens.com

EDIT TO ADD: Haha, I forgot I am on lemmy so we’re discussing the technology and licensing issues, instead of focusing on how this might improve the lives of visually impaired people.

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    9 months ago

    And they’re known by everyone and widely used as the standard, riiiiiiight?

    You probably don’t know about most the ones that aren’t doing fine, cus, you know, they aren’t doing so well.

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      9 months ago

      Hmmmm. I certainly can’t think of any…

      • Linux (including its distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora)
      • Apache HTTP Server
      • Mozilla Firefox
      • LibreOffice
      • VLC
      • GIMP
      • Blender
      • WordPress
      • MySQL
      • Python
      • Git
      • Docker
      • TensorFlow
      • Kubernetes

      While these names may not be on the forefront of the public’s mind, they’re still insanely ubiquitous. There’s no reason this needed to be a proprietary tracking service. Especially not one that takes advantage of those with disabilities.