I finally got around to downloading and trying out the Novartis 
VIOptaDaily app.  It's pretty simple, but does appear to work.  I tried 
out the color identifier and it seemed to be getting colors generally 
correct, but not perfect.  I ran a stack of currency passed the camera and 
it hit consistently.  I flipped, twisted, folded, the bills, and moved the 
phone around a lot, but it got the value of the bills correct every time. 
It is worth having on my phone just for that feature.

David Goldfield's original email is appended below.  The comments on 
Engadget were poor, but I had little trouble with the app.  It is self 
voicing, so sometimes VoiceOver and VIOptaDaily argue with each other, but 
I got it to work with little effort.

Thanks for the find, David.

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, David Goldfield wrote:

> VioptaDaily sounds like the name of a pharmaceutical product. In fact, it's 
> produced by Novartis, which is a pharmaceutical manufacturer.  However, 
> Vioptadaily is not a drug but is, instead, an iOS app to provide some nice 
> accessibility to the visually impaired. Not only that, Novartis is giving it 
> away for free in the app store, so no medical insurance is required. They 
> seem rather progressive; in 2011, they were reported to have produced flu 
> vaccines which do not use aborted fetal cell lines, which is both morally 
> correct as well as scientifically sound. I have not yet downloaded their app 
> but I certainly plan to, without suffering any unpleasant side effects in the 
> process. 
> http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/02/simple-accessibility-app-makes-the-visual-world-audible/
>
>

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