The app is the work of Tomáš Jelínek and will be available for downloading free, and it will be presented for the first time at the Dark Blue Festival.
Colour-blindness is a quite widespread eye defect which affects every tenth man and one in eighty women. People with this handicap can now find help from the mobile app NowYouSee, which will be available free for downloading at www.areyoucolorblind.com.
The Dark Blue festival is aimed at visually handicapped children and young people, and is organised by the Brno Tourist Information Centre. In creating the application Tomáš Jelínek worked with scientific knowledge only changing numbers for pictures so that even children who do not yet know their numbers could use it. “After three test questions there comes the interesting point concerning this issue. For example the explanation why Facebook is inclined towards the colour blue is quite surprising. Its founder Mark Zuckerberg is colour blind and people with this eye defect can see this colour without difficulty,” adds the app’s author. The second level of the app arises from the diagnosis that results from the test. It is able to adjust the “invisible” colour so that the colour blind can see it. Most often green and red are hard to distinguish. All that is needed is a small shift in the shades and all at once they can be distinguished. Through the smartphone display people can for example play board games which they could not do otherwise, or they can also find out that the picture that has hung on their wall throughout their life contains some red details.
The app will be presented during the adventure day on Thursday 27 April from 1 p.m. at Moravské náměstí by the statue of Jošt. Those interested will be able to have their sight tested there and also to try out what it is like to live such a problem. Part of the afternoon will also be an accompanying gastronomic programme or a massage from a blind masseur.
The Tmavomodrý (Dark Blue) Festival will take place from 27 to 30 April 2017.
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