I-Device Accessible Apps & More

i-Device Accessible Apps & More

Resource List

July 2011

Following are our favorite i-device apps, resources for identifying accessible apps for your i-device and other helpful guides:

Top Accessible Apps

VizWiz for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vizwiz/id439686043?mt=8

A free app, VizWiz lets blind users recruit remote sighted workers to help them with visual problems in nearly real-time. Users take a picture with their phone, speak a question, and then receive multiple spoken answers.

Read2Go for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/app/read2go/id425585903?mt=8

Cost: $19.99

Read2Go is the most accessible DAISY book ereader for iOS. From within the app, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading.

Audible for iPhone & iPod Touch App http://www.audible.com/wireless/iphone? ie=UTF8&class=link&pf_rd_r=1PYDJB6627SCSZFC7REW&pf_rd_m=A2ZO8JX97D 5MN9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=iphone_at&pf_rd_p=1302704582&pf_rd_s=center-3

This free app from audible.com lets you: • Download audiobooks directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch • Listen to all your favorite titles wherever you are • Up-to-the minute news, detailed listening stats, badges, and more!

RFB&D Audio http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/education/rfbd-audio

Cost: $19.99

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic is now Learning Ally. As Learning Ally, we are expanding our role as a “friend to those who learn differently.”

Get the RFB&D Audio app for your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad today! Gain instant access to Learning Ally’s (formerly RFB&D) downloadable DAISY formatted books. Learning Ally members can explore our extensive library of more than 64,000 audiobooks that are designed for people with print and learning disabilities.

Learning Ally offers FREE Individual Membership for eligible people with visual impairments or dyslexia who experience difficulty in reading print material. To use RFB&D Audio, membership is required. To learn more and see if you are eligible for membership, please copy and paste www.LearningAlly.org/membership

into your browser. LookTel Money Reader for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad on the iTunes App Storehttp://www.looktel.com/products http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/looktel-money-reader/id417476558?mt=8

Cost: $1.99

LookTel Money Reader instantly recognizes US currency and speaks the denomination, enabling people with visual impairments or blindness to quickly and easily identify and count bills. Simply point your iPhone’s camera at any US bill and the application will tell you the denomination in real-time. It currently supports $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills.

Featuring LookTel’s patented and proprietary object recognition technology, LookTel Money Reader makes it as easy to recognize bills as possible. There’s no need to hold the iPhone still or capture a photo and wait for a result – recognition happens continuously and in real-time. Additionally, the app does not require any internet connection, which means it can read money quickly at any location, anytime.

EyeNote for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eyenote/id405336354?mt=8

EyeNote is a free mobile device application to denominate Federal Reserve Notes (U.S. paper currency) as an aid for the blind or visually impaired to increase accessibility.

Using EyeNote, a user can have the denomination of a note scanned and communicated back to the user. EyeNote works on the iPhone 3G and 3Gs, the iPhone 4, the 4th Generation iPod touch, and the iPad 2. Color Identifier for iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-identifier/id363346987?mt=8

Cost: $1.99’

Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time. It identifies only main colors, not the various shades.

Sendero GPS LookAround for iPhone http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sendero-gps-lookaround/id386831856?mt=8

Cost $4.99

Note: Only works on iPhone 3GS and 4 models.

Sendero Group develops and distributes accessible GPS for the blind on 6 types of devices. If you purchase Sendero LookAround for the iPhone, you will not only get useful location information, you will be underwriting the cost of accessible GPS for other users. Thank you for supporting Location Information For Everyone.

Sendero GPS LookAround for the iPhone, with Voice Over, announces the current street, city, cross street, heading and nearby points of interest. Unlike Sendero's other applications, there is no turn-by-turn navigation on the iPhone yet. No ads are displayed in LookAround. For more information on the other Sendero navigation devices, visit http://www.AccessibleGPS.com

Note: LookAround prompts and menus are in English. The quality of maps and POIs may vary depending upon location. The highest quality data is in North America and Europe. Other countries are available for LookAround but the data quality may be marginal, especially outside major cities. Voice Over is free text to speech software built into the iPhone. When enabled under Settings, General, Accessibility, it provides a verbal representation of the print text shown on the screen, an essential feature for people who are blind and useful for people with sight as well.

Ariadne GPS for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ariadne-gps/id441063072?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Cost: $3.99

Ariadne GPS is more than a simple gps app. Besides offering you the possibility to know your position and to get information about the street, the number, etc. it also lets you explore the map of what's around you. What do we mean by saying "explore"? You'll deal with a talking map. If you have VoiceOver activated on your device, you will be able to know the street names and numbers that are around you by touching them. Just put your finger on the screen of your device, when showing the map and moving it you will be told the info's about the street you're touching. Your position is on the center of the screen. What's in front of you is on the top half of the screen and things behind you are on the bottom half of the screen. You can also explore a different region than the one around you by telling the app the street and the city. You can ask for information about your position at any time, also activating a function, called monitor, that will give you this info periodically (This app has also got some other useful features that might help when walking or traveling by bus, train etc. If you add your favourite points to the app database, you can be alerted when you get closer than a certain distance to one of them.

This app is completely accessible using VoiceOver and gives you access to information that are normally unavailable to people using the speech synthesizer and can be therefore especially useful to blind and partially sighted people. iBlink Radio http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/education/iblink-radio

Free, this is a great Training Resource!! Download the iBlink Radio app from the iTunes App store. Open the app and navigate to Audio Tutorials and Interviews. Navigate to “All with My iPhone”. 35 different podcasts detailing and demonstrating how to navigate 34/35 different apps

Pandora http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/music/pandora-radio

This is a free app that allows you to discover new music that is simular to an band or song you like.

TuneIn Radio Pro for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tunein-radio-pro/id319295332?mt=8

Cost: ?

Listen to and record over 50,000 radio stations including thousands of AM/FM local stations on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with TuneIn Radio! Now with multitasking support for iOS 4!

Skype http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/social-networking/skype

A free app, Skype is just like the PC version of the Skype software. It allows you to call other people who have Skype accounts, or if you pay for it, you can call people's phone numbers. I know that for an iPhone, this wouldn't seem so important, but it's nice for an iPod Touch. ZoomReader http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/lifestyle/zoomreader

Cost: $19.99

Compatible with iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2+ only

In combination with your iPhone’s built-in camera, ZoomReader lets you magnify and read printed text by first taking a picture of an object like a book or menu, then converts the image into text using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. ZoomReader will then read the text back to you using a natural-sounding voice.

ZoomReader isn’t just for books – it can be used to read small print on a receipt, box, menu, or pill bottle – wherever there’s small text you can’t read yourself. Whether you’re on the go or you’re using ZoomReader to help you read a newspaper in the comfort of your living room, this quick and powerful program does everything a dedicated video magnifier can do – from the convenience of your iPhone and at a much lower price.

If you have trouble reading printed text, ZoomReader can help by allowing you to change the foreground and background colors, making everything easier on your eyes plus you can simultaneously adjust the magnification level. ZoomReader also leverages the iPhone’s built-in accessibility features such as Zoom and VoiceOver, and offers an affordable and easy to use solution in an all-in-one mobile device.

Developed from the ground up by Ai Squared, a leader in low-vision software, ZoomReader features a simple user interface with large, prominent buttons, and even offers voice control of the various features. ZoomReader is the newest iPhone app for the visually impaired and anyone else in need of a little visual assistance. Dropbox http://www.applevis.com/app-directory/productivity/dropbox

DropBox is a free app and is the way to store your files in the cloud and access them where ever you are. Share files with friends, or make them publically available.

• Access your Dropbox on the go.

• Download files for offline viewing.

• Sync photos and videos to your Dropbox.

• Share links to files in your Dropbox.

Weather Alert USA iPhone | iPad | iPod Touch Application http://www.softpeas.com/

Cost $3.99

This versatile weather app conveniently provides you with all of the local NOAA weather essentials you've come to expect plus it automatically alerts you of significant US weather events (Watches, Warnings, and Advisories).

By virtually plugging your device directly into the official NOAA alert network, event alerts are "pushed" directly to your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch; instantaneously notifying you via pop up alerts, sounds, and an app icon badge. This weather app even alerts you when it is not running and conveniently provides you with all of the important NOAA alert details including event synopsis and color coded alert maps.

• Streams 100% of its weather information directly from the official NOAA servers and it is 100% advertisement free! ZoomContacts for iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zoomcontacts/id442917350?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Cost: $4.99

ZoomContacts is the perfect “Large Print” contact application for iPad users who have difficulty seeing the small text on their screen. ZoomContacts uses Apple’s internal Contacts database to store and manage information but presents it using multiple font size / color combination choices. This makes it easier on the eyes for those folks who could use a little visual assistance.

SecureNotes - Encrypted Notepad for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/securenotes-encrypted-notepad/id335360000?mt=8&ign- mpt=uo%3D4

Cost: $1.99

Use SecureNotes to safely store and organize sensitive information (credit card numbers, logins, banking information, etc..) Why pay for an application that only stores credit cards when SecureNotes gives you the liberty to safely encrypt any information at a fraction of the price! Create as many notes as you wish and organize them in to folders of related items.

All of your notes in SecureNotes are encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption. The NSA deems AES encryption secure enough to protect classified information up to the TOP SECRET level, the highest security level in the US government. Your notes always remain encrypted on the device and are only viewable upon entering your password. Feel secure knowing that if your iPhone or iPod is lost or stolen that no one can access your sensitive data without your password. Digit-Eyes Audio Labeling System http://www.digit-eyes.com/

Cost: $29.95

Digit-Eyes is a unique application that uses inexpensive off-the-shelf office supplies and a standard inkjet or laser printer to enable users of the iPhone to make audio labels or text labels that are read aloud by their phone. Want permanent labels for your clothing that can be washed or drycleaned again and again?

Find My iPhone for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8

Find My iPhone is free for anyone with an iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required).* Just sign in with your Apple ID on your qualifying device and turn on Find My iPhone to allow you to locate it. Then use the same Apple ID to turn on Find My iPhone on your other iOS 4.2 (or later) devices including iPhone 3G, 3GS, or iPod touch (2nd generation or later). Find My iPhone is also included with a MobileMe subscription.

If you lose your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch while on the go, simply install the Find My iPhone app on another iOS device, launch it, and sign in with your Apple ID (Find My iPhone must already be configured on the missing device).

You’ll see your device’s location on a map and you can choose to have it display a message or play a sound, remotely lock the device, or wipe it to permanently delete all of your data if you think that it won’t be returned. For added security, the app will automatically sign you out after 15 minutes, or you can manually sign out at any time. iHandy Flashlight Free for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ihandy-flashlight-free/id368504562?mt=8

This free app is the brightest, fastest, and most versatile flashlight in the world, ever! Instantly turn on the camera light, and then leisurely enjoy 30+ light effects. Shake your iPhone to get the instant brightest flashlight! It's cool! ★

iAdvocate for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iadvocate/id427814325?mt=8&ls=1

The goal of the free app iAdvocate is to share and develop specific strategies with parents for working collaboratively with a school team to improve their children’s education. iAdvocate uses problem-based learning strategies, simulations, and provides contextual access resources to build parental advocacy skills and knowledge.

iAdvocate provides parents with both information and most importantly, strategies in regards to their educational rights and getting their child’s needs met. The goal of iAdvocate is to share and develop specific strategies with parents for working collaboratively with a school team to improve their children’s education and to provide the most inclusive and meaningful educational environment for students with disabilities.

iAdvocate contains three sections: strategies, a compilation of approaches that parents can pursue as advocates; resources, which lists and, where possible, links to such references as laws, books, articles, web sites, video presentations, and organizations that provide information on inclusive education; and, responses, which features simulated interactions, such as replies to common statements made by school professionals regarding services and accommodations for children. Websites

The links found below lead to websites that report on the accessibility of apps for Apple products.

Accessible Apps, The Mac Accessibility Network http://www.google.com/cse?ie=UTF- 8&cx=000183394137052953072%3Azc1orsc6mbq&q=mac+accessibility+network

AppleVis http://www.applevis.com/ Articles, Tutorials and PopCasts

Following are some great articles, tutorials and guides to help you in identifying accessible apps and using your i-device.

Fred's Head from APH: How to Request a Refund on any iPhone App http://www.fredshead.info/2010/11/how-to-request-refund-on-any-iphone-app.html

Apps For The Blind And Visually Impaired: iPad/iPhone Apps AppList http://appadvice.com/applists/show/apps-for-the-visually-impaired

CNIB Blog - IDevices Apps Roundup, Part 1 http://blog.cnib.ca/archive/2011/05/06/idevices-apps-roundup-part-1.aspx

CNIB Blog - IDevices Apps Roundup, Part 2 http://blog.cnib.ca/archive/2011/05/25/idevices-apps-roundup-part-2.aspx

Instructional podcasts for using the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 3rd generation with VoiceOver - Resources - Vision Australia Website http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2297

Instructional podcasts for using the iOS 4 with VoiceOver - Resources - Vision Australia Website http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2314 Miscellaneous Resources

Tactile Screen Protectors : A T Guys, Your Assistive Technology Experts http://www.atguys.com/store/index.php? main_page=index&cPath=15&zenid=73e68481ce43084f80949fda5816680b

Overlay App http://www.overlay.com