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Smartphones are beneficial for us in multiple ways, but for a person with disabilities, it is not as effective as others. Whether a person has a hearing problem or visual disability, the person will face difficulty in using smartphones. If you are also facing this problem, then don’t worry because we will tell you about plenty of applications that you can install on your smartphone to use it in better ways. Here are some of the best disabled-friendly and accessibility apps for Android.

Accessibility Scanner

Accessibility Scanner is an app that looks over your various applications and gives you suggestions to improve your app and make it familiar for you. It helps you make the background contrast and the size of the text better so that you will not face any problem in reading it. You can use this application for free.

Android Accessibility Suite

You can use the Android Accessibility Suite for visually impaired navigation with the device. To activate this, just go in the settings menu and enable it. Once you activate it, the app will add features such as audible feedback, vibration, and spoken tool so that you can get the idea of what’s happening on your smartphone. Try this app; it’s available for free.

Assistive Touch

Assistive Touch offers you some fantastic features, but it also contains some unnecessary features such as boosting your device, RAM cleaning, etc. So try to avoid using these useless features. This app gives you virtual buttons that you can use to navigate your device without even touching it. It provides you with virtual volume buttons, home button, a screenshot button, back button, etc. It is a fantastic disabled-friendly app, and you should try this once. This app is available for free, though to get some additional features, you can purchase its membership that will cost you $0.99.

Envision Al

Envision Al uses the camera of your smartphone and narrates what is happening around you. This app also can read the handwriting, documents, and scan barcodes, not only that it supports 60 languages, and can even remember the things for you.

It is an excellent app available for free, as well as subscription charges. To get the membership for a month, you will have to pay $4.99, and if you want to take its membership for the year, that will cost you $39.99, and to get the lifetime membership, you can purchase it for $199.99.

Google Assistant

Google Assistant is a fantastic tool that allows you to operate your device without touching it. You can send texts, place calls, open apps, and many other activities on your smartphone using this application. But using this can drain your battery too fast; otherwise, it is the most fantastic application provided by Google.

Google Maps

Google Maps is not an app entirely for disabled people, but it has some features that can be useful for them, such as turn by turn navigation tool, and disability-friendly transit options. It can also help you to find wheelchair-accessible entrances.

IFTTT

IFTTT is an automation app that you can use to perform automatic actions such as reading your text messages loudly, controlling the lights, and other automatic equipment in your house. It is entirely for free.

JABtalk

This app can help non-verbal kids and adults communicate. It allows you to build sentences from words, import audio and pictures, organize words, etc. It also offers you a backup feature, and it’s an entirely free application.

Live Transcribe

It is one of the best apps for the people who have a hearing problem; this app can easily listen and translate the words spoken by a person. And the best thing is that Live Transcribe also can understand the deaf speak and translate it for other people. It is available for free.

Lookout by Google

Lookout by Google is an accessibility application for the visually impaired. It is very simple to use, you just have to point the camera of your smartphone at the things, and the app will dictate what they are. It is entirely able to recognize various things, such as animals, humans, traffic, walls, etc. Lookout by Google is a fantastic app, and it can identify the things very accurately, it is entirely for free, and a visually impaired should use it.

With disabilities, life is hard, but the technologies are real lifesavers not only for disabled people but for everyone, and these disabled-friendly and accessibility apps are real jams of advanced techniques. Try these applications and get the best experience of using your smartphone. Thank you for reading the article.

Source:- Accessibility Apps for Android

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