Android smartphones are the latest trend in all around the world. And apps are being developed in bulk to fulfill the user’s needs. It is a platform which provides things you ask for. But the question is, does it support all group of people?
Although many app developers spend their time working on apps that entertain, but there are many developers that have a job to do. For the disabled, apps can be a way to connect with others and their world in a new way. It actually provides support for those groups which are quite not noticed by many.
This article covers several useful apps meant for physically challenged people. Tools they provide for physically challenged people are simply sound in their means.
Check out these apps for the Disabled which have helped people from all walks of life overcome their daily limitations.
1. Gesture Search
Gesture search supports the people who were the victim to paralysis and lost their partial limbs. You need to draw the starting letter for any thing you search on the device screen. Further this will support visually impaired people to make some basic navigation inside their android device.
2. Vlingo Virtual Assistant
It is specially designed for people for disabilities and of-course everyone can make use of it. It takes your voice as the input or command and do whatever you say to it. Vlingo virtual assistant definitely an iPhone Siri alternative.
3. Eyes-Free Shell
This application allows you to navigate to all other places on a single touch. Eyes free shell mode is a perfect communication device for the physically challenged with which they can easily operate the Android devices on a prerecorded navigation panel.
4. Text to speech Extended
Text to Speech application is a must carry through for all those other than hearing impaired people. This application allows you to listen the text messages on your inbox and the general description on the other possible actions inside your Android device.
5. Google Voice Search
Google voice search is about to handle your smartphone using your voice commands. This helps you to browse the web and your phone using your voice commands. Most recommended for the people who cant move their limbs for each and every accessbility everytime.
6. XKCyanide LITE (Comic Reader)
Every one will start a day briskly and end the day exhausted out of long working hours, pressured environment so and so. Coming to differently abled they face more troubles than the usual being. It will be always a delight for them to enjoy as normal being with all such entertainment factors. Comic reader is such and app designed for those people to enjoy bedtime stories which will narrate a story for them.
7. Hands-Free Voice Dialer : CD+
It works on bluetooth and most of the time you don’t need to worry about data connection. Using this tool you can dictate emails, texts, facebook status through voice with the support from Google voice.
8. Talking Dialer
Talking dialer allows you to make phone calls easier than before having a big screen with extra large icons and getting even bigger on a mild touch on it.
9. Drivesafe.ly
Drivesafe.ly will help people by reading their messages, mail inbox, notification, and also allows you to respond by voice for prerecorded templates.
10. WalkyTalky
A pretty useful app for physically challenged people to get the information about where they are & where they are about to move without others support. It works with the help of GPS so that you will be getting an virtual guide for navigation.
11. mem
Mem is a simple android game for physically challenged people. This helps people who cant move from their places or need some wheeled chairs for their movement into training their mind using Android. This simple application will give them time killing factors also thereby sharpening their intellect.
12. eSpeak for android
Another speak engine for your browsing session is this tool which runs on Android. It helps in reading the files and web documents once its configured. Menu -> Settings -> Voice Input & Output ->Text-To-Speech settings. Once you have done with this basic settings change your default search Engine to eSpeak.
Thanks for reading the article and I’m sure this collection will surely help some group of people in their routine life by any means. We will be glad to know any other interesting application that would help, support and make some assistance for them.
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