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.

    • otacon239@feddit.de
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      3 years 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.