IDEAL Group's Android Accessibility Project

Project eyes-free turns your Android into an eyes-free communication device with one-handed, single-touch access to common tasks. Applications from this project can be used stand-alone; they can also be used together through the eyes-free shell. This collection of videos will cover the latter scenario.

We will refer to the eyes-free shell as Marvin in honor of Douglas Adams' famous paranoid android — our Marvin says

Brain the size of a planet and they expect me to make phone calls?

The Marvin home screen provides single-touch access to useful information via a collection of talking mini-applications. In addition, commonly used applications can be placed under shortcuts for quick access. Finally, the call button automatically launches the eyes-free Talking Dialer — all of these applications are covered in detail in subsequent videos.

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Android eyes-free Introduction