03 workshop aegis phone dialer & contact manager, android version by jon azpiroz (vfe)

AEGIS Workshop and International Conference, Brussels

Accessible Phone Dialer & Contact

Manager application


Target users

• Users with disabilities: • Visual • Cognitive

• People technologically illiterate

• Elder people


Application Features

• Calling, Editing, Group management…


Application overview. Layouts

• Four different layouts


Application overview. Font sizes

• Three different font sizes


Application overview. Scrollbar

• Expandable alphabetical scrollbar

Long click


Alternative input method. Gestures

• Gestures drawn on the screen to perform actions

• Layout

• Font

• Search

• Favorites

• Groups

• Settings


Blind user mode. Why?

• Android phones without a trackball are not usable by blind users

• Blind user mode uses the accessible components developed in another activity from the AEGIS project

• It is a gesture-based interface with

complete spoken feedback


Blind user mode. How to enable

• To enable the blind user mode, the user only has to draw a B on the screen


Blind user mode. How to use

• To move between contacts:

• Downwards: left-to-right gesture

• Upwards: right-to-left gesture

• To accept the selection:

• Tick gesture


Blind user mode. Navigating

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Conclusions

• The application is in an advanced stage of development

• It provides solutions for users with

visual or cognitive disabilities

• It is available on the Android Market

• It has over one thousand downloads and it is rated with five stars

03 workshop aegis phone dialer & contact manager, android version by jon azpiroz (vfe)

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