*Smartphones for Vision Rehabilitation: Accessible Features and Apps, Opportunity… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97703*

technology-interaction i.e., interface, is depend on vision, then visually impaired people face a tremendous limitation to access all kind of the information present in the smartphone. With ongoing advances and sophistication in mobile technology, the smartphone can be operated with eyes-free interface in an efficient way. These accessible applications are based on audio and tactile/haptic based interaction substituting the need of visual based interaction. There are many "apps" available that are accessible to people with visual disability. Few examples are given with a brief description of each in **Table 2**. **Figure 6** represents illustrations of few accessible apps. Majority of these apps are freely available online, so a visually impaired person can download, and install any specific app for their purpose.

These applications enable the smartphones serve as assistive technology for visually impaired people and facilitate to do tasks related to independent living, performing daily activities, to engage in education, societal activities, help in access information in today's digital society, sighted help, and to improve the overall quality of life. For example, the "Kibo" application helps an individual with a visual disability to access all electronic prints or pdf files or word document files (**Figure 7**); Be My Eyes for sighted help; Visor for color inverts; Mani app for currency identification and RightHear for navigation.

**Figure 6.** *Third Party accessible applications.*

**Figure 7.** *Kibo accessible application.*
