Sprint Announces Two Accessibility Solutions Today – Accessibility ID Packs and Mobile Accessibility Application
Sprint is proud to announce today that we will soon offer our customers who are blind or visually impaired, as well as elderly individuals or those who cannot read print on smartphones because of physical, perceptual, developmental, cognitive or learning disabilities, free solutions that will provide them with easier access to their Android-powered smartphone’s functionality.
The solutions include five new Accessibility Sprint ID packs – bundles of applications available on select Android-powered smartphones – and the Mobile Accessibility suite of applications.
Accessibility Sprint ID packs:
Today Sprint is announcing five accessibility-themed Sprint ID packs, developed by Apps4Android, which are bundles of applications designed to accommodate the access needs of Sprint subscribers with print disabilities – people who are unable to read standard printed material, including on their smartphone, because of blindness, visual disability, physical limitations, organic dysfunction or dyslexia.
1. Accessibility ID pack installs applications necessary to operate a smartphone without the need to see or read what is being displayed on the screen. It does so through the use of spoken, auditory and vibrational feedback.
2. Accessible Entertainment ID pack installs applications that read RSS news feeds and navigates users through YouTube entertainment content using high-quality text-to-speech voices.
3. Accessible Navigation ID pack installs GPS-based applications that provide navigational assistance to users who are either driving or walking from one location to another.
4. Accessible Daily Living ID pack installs applications designed to help individuals with print disabilities identify and locate items around the home and workplace. It also includes a powerful video magnification application for reading print materials more easily.
5. Reading Made Easier ID pack installs applications designed to help individuals read smartphone and Web-based documents, and surf the Web, more easily through the use of advanced navigation techniques and text-to-speech technology.
For more information about the Accessibility ID packs, read today’s press release:
Apps4Android Expands Mobile Offerings with the Launch of Five Free Accessibility Sprint ID Packs
Mobile Accessibility:
Today Sprint also announced that Mobile Accessibility, a suite of accessible applications that have been specifically designed for people who are blind or visually impaired which was developed by Code Factory, a company out of Spain, will be offered to Sprint postpaid and Boost Mobile prepaid customers through the Android Market for free starting at the end of this quarter.
Mobile Accessibility features a simplified user interface and textual information that is spoken aloud using voice synthesis to aid navigation of the device. The application will be available for free for postpaid Sprint customers with Android-powered smartphones activated on a monthly service plan that includes data, such as the Everything Data plan starting at $79.99. The app is free for no-contract customers with Android-powered smartphones on Boost Mobile’s Monthly or Daily Unlimited plans.
The application, which typically costs $99, will be available in English and Spanish in Android Market under the names Sprint Mobile Accessibility EN & ES and Boost Mobile Accessibility EN & ES.
The main features of Mobile Accessibility:
• Touch navigation: Users can simply move their finger around the screen and the voice synthesis will read the text located under their finger. They can swipe up/down/right/left and tap on the screen to navigate through the interface, and they can enable sound and vibration feedback.
• Easy to input text: In or outside the Mobile Accessibility suite users can use the touch QWERTY keyboard or speech recognition to write text quickly and easily – making it possible to write an SMS or email using their voice only.
• Voice synthesis: Provides customers natural sounding voice read back.
For more information about the Mobile Accessibility application, read today’s press release:
Related links:
Apps4Android Accessibility ID packs press release
