"Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an
Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she
has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches a line
drawn on the screen, the tablet vibrates quietly. Scanning her finger
back and forth and feeling the vibration come and go allows her to trace
the line's path," according to a
Medical News Today post. "When her finger reaches a pink dot, the tablet gives off an electronic tone and she grins delightedly.
Kira is one of two visually impaired high school students who are
testing a new Android app, one designed to assist students like her in
mastering algebra, geometry, graphing and other subjects that are
particularly hard to comprehend without the aid of normal vision."
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