Keynoa Technologies

Keynoa is an assistive technologies platform offering solutions specifically developed for blind and visually impaired people supporting their education and enhancing their inclusion and accessibility. Keynoa tools include a hand wearable device Keynoa Rings and a mobile application Keynoa App allowing, in particular, to easily read and write digital text in any language and, more widely, to see with the fingers Based on the Cherradi method, the characters of the digital text to read are converted to coded vibrations produced by the finger rings of the Keynoa Rings wearable device. Easy to learn coded vibrations on the fingers are interpreted by the user as text characters. With Keynoa Rings, the user produces characters, symbols, and commands, without a keyboard or equivalent, simply by finger taps on a hard surface Keynoa introduces Keynoa Braille constituting a set of innovative and user-friendly aids augmenting and simplifying the Braille system With Keynoa Rings blind musicians read Braille Musical Notes and play their instruments simultaneously Keynoa offers effective means for blind children to be integrated into sighted children's classrooms making them feel less excluded and benefiting from equal rights and opportunities Keynoa Rings hand wearable is particularly useful for deaf-blind people as it enables easy and comfortable communication with other people as well as with other devices, leaving the fingers simultaneously free for other activities Keynoa simplifies access to information and communication and allows reading and sending text messages privately and silently. Since their hearing sense is free while using Keynoa, the users continue to participate in the discussions and listen to the surrounding sounds, they are therefore less excluded in their social life Keynoa gives instant access to any book or document in digital form. The user sits back reading and navigating as the reading information flows simply and naturally to the fingers