Project number: 224348
Project acronym: AEGIS
Project title: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards
Starting date: 1 September 2008
Duration: 48 Months
AEGIS is an Integrated Project (IP) within the ICT programme of FP7
03 Workshop Aegis Phone Dialer & Contact Manager, Android version by Jon Azpiroz (VFE)
1. Accessible Phone Dialer & Contact
Manager application
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2. Target users
• Users with disabilities:
• Visual
• Cognitive
• People technologically illiterate
• Elder people
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7. Alternative input method. Gestures
• Gestures drawn on the screen to perform
actions
• Layout
• Font
• Search
• Favorites
• Groups
• Settings
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8. 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
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9. Blind user mode. How to enable
• To enable the blind user mode, the user
only has to draw a B on the screen
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10. 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
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11. Blind user mode. Navigating
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12. 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
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