[jimray]

This is a great story and inspiring and hits all the right "feel good" buttons.

BUT.

Isn't the story really "how blind people use the accessibility features of iOS"? Accessibility, specifically Voice Over, is a core component of iOS and pretty straightforward for developers to implement. The new Flickr app, for instance, seems to offer many of the same accessibility features shown in the video, though their implementation could use a little work. The Instagram guys should be commended for adding the accessibility hooks but, really, that's all they did. That's a day's worth of work.

Can anyone speak to how Instagram works for the blind on an Android device?

[PhearTheCeal]

I believe the big role Instagram played in this video is the use of photo comments. After he uploaded a picture, people would comment on it to explain what it was and how he did. So I see it as a way for blind people to capture moments around them without walking around and touching everything.

[conradev]

> pretty straightforward for developers to implement

Although true, many developers don't even take the time out to do it[1]. This video demonstrates that the creators of Instagram did take the time out to do it, even though a lot of interaction their application is based on vision.

[1] http://mattgemmell.com/2012/10/26/ios-accessibility-heroes-a...