5 Must-Have Apps for People with Intellectual Disabilities

5 Must-Have Apps for People with Intellectual Disabilities

by | 07 Jan, 2022

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5 Must-Have Apps for People with Intellectual Disabilities

People with intellectual disabilities such as Down syndrome or fragile X syndrome have an intellectual development that’s inferior to the population average and learning difficulties. This means they have trouble conceptualizing, thinking, making decisions and communicating with others. 

In order to better communicate, easily make decisions or even to stay organized, they can rely on numerous apps. Plus, they enable them to remain autonomous and to challenge themselves at their own pace.

Let’s have a closer look at 5 must-have apps for people with intellectual disabilities!

Cozi Family Organizer

A great app to stay in sync with your family! You can set reminders for yourself or any of the family members. This can be helpful for those who need to be driven to medical appointments or work. 

Plus the calendar is easy to use and to comprehend.

You can also create all kinds of to-do lists to make sure all your everyday tasks are organized and set up a meal planner!

Available on Android and iOS

Evernote

Another great app to help you stay organized! With Evernote, you can create to-do lists, capture photos, record voice reminders or simply take notes. And your notes can be searchable. 

Find what suits you best and make sure you don’t miss any events!

Available on Android and iOS

Evelity

An indoor navigation app to help you find your bearings in complex venues. The app perfectly adapts to the user profile and provides optimized routes with easy-to-read and easy-to-understand instructions. 

You can also preview your itinerary to be more familiar with it. 

Besides, its simplified interface makes it easy for you to use. 

Evelity is currently being tested at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station in New York but it’s also deployed in other sites in France, its country of origin: the whole metro network in the city of Marseilles, the Luma museum in Arles and the medical university campus Rockefeller in Lyon.

Available on Android and iOS

Breathe2Relax

We can all feel stressed from time to time or tiring by our environment. Breathe2Relax teaches breathing techniques to remain calm and serene. 

It helps people with anxiety to relieve their stress.

Available on Android and iOS

Red Panic Button

If at some point you need help, you can hit the Red Panic Button! First when setting this app up, you need to list your contacts who’ll serve as your emergency contacts. People you are comfortable with and can rely on.

When you’re in trouble, the app sends them a SMS containing a Google Maps link with your location.

Available on Android and iOS

Be careful of what you’re being promised

You may have found in your research countless brain-trainings apps to improve your memory and problem solving skills. However, there’s little scientific evidence that demonstrates their effectiveness. Much more research is needed.

For now, it looks like these apps don’t have the power to sharpen your cognitive abilities or prevent any mental decline for those with dementia or Alzheimer’s. But if you feel like trying, a lot of these apps can be both free and entertaining such as Peak, Elevate or Lumosity.

You now have 5 great apps at your fingertips to make your everyday life easier! 

Want to know more about people with intellectual disabilities? Check out our articles:

9 Tips to Welcome a Person with an Intellectual Disability

What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Customers with Intellectual Disabilities at Your Venue

Public Transport: Accessibility Solutions, Also for the Intellectual Disability!

Published on January 7th, 2022

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An indoor navigation app to help you find your bearings in complex venues. Evelity perfectly adapts to the user profile and provides optimized routes with easy-to-read and easy-to-understand instructions.

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12 Must-Have Apps for Blind or Visually Impaired People

12 Must-Have Apps for Blind or Visually Impaired People

by | 30 Oct, 2020

12 Must-Have Apps for Blind or Visually Impaired People

 

For people with a visual impairment, accessing simple information can sometimes be difficult. How can a nonsighted person get their bearings and choose the best route to get to their destination? Or read a document that’s not available in braille? Answer an email from a co-worker? Fortunately, technology keeps innovating: a lot of apps are specifically designed to help blind or visually impaired people in their everyday lives.

Indeed, 89% of them have a smartphone, a tool that truly revolutionizes their lives. If they can gain more autonomy today, it’s thanks to features that are more advanced and accessible to the general public or thanks to apps that are specially designed for them. Blind or visually impaired people who find it restrictive and stressing to get around can now be more serene.

Let’s explore the apps used by blind or visually impaired people to gain more autonomy in their everyday lives!

VoiceOver

VoiceOver is a screen reader that’s integrated into iPhones that, as its name indicates, enunciates emails or other textual messages aloud. It’s up to the user to choose the speaking rate and the volume.

Not to forget that braille also remains an option for those who have a braille keyboard to connect to the smartphone or who just want to write in braille directly on the screen of their iPhone.

VoiceOver also describes all the elements on the screen such as apps icons, the battery level and even in part images thanks to artificial intelligence. All the information is thus accessible!

Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility: Examples of a Technology That Serves People with Disabilities

TalkBack

Android smartphones also have a similar screen reader with TalkBack. It follows the same guideline as for iPhones: reading textual elements aloud, exploring the screen, using braille with BrailleBack… Everything is set for an optimal and smooth navigation!

Siri

Directly integrated into iPhones, Siri is an easy-to-use vocal assistant. For blind or visually impaired people, for whom finding and clicking on the right button can be difficult, using a voice control enables them to save time!

They just need to ask Siri to call a contact, to send a dictated text message and everything is therefore easier!

Google Assistant

Also activated by voice control, Google Assistant has the same functionality as Siri. The user totally controls their smartphone according to their needs: sending an email, setting up an alarm, managing their schedule…

Available on both Android and iOS

Google Maps

It’s one of the most popular GPS navigation apps. Being able to anticipate their route is essential for blind and visually impaired people. And this also applies for other types of profiles in general since people with disabilities use 30% more the GPS on their smartphone than the rest of the population. (Find out all the facts and figures concerning their use of smartphones in our infographic.)

Google Maps enables users to have access to all the real-time traffic information which is ideal when choosing the right means of public transportation!

The app even provides a new feature called “Accessible Places” that enables users to even more apprehend their environment thanks to information concerning the seating plan of a restaurant, the exact location of a building entrance…

The app provides precious help for blind and visually impaired people to serenely get around!

Available on both Android and iOS

Moovit

For those who are used to taking public transportation, this app lists all the possible means of transportation, their itineraries, their timetables and other information on real-time traffic.

The app even indicates the users the names of stops while on the bus, the tram or the subway. This proves to be essential for blind or visually impaired people when voice announcements aren’t activated.

Available on both Android and iOS

Evelity

Developed by Okeenea Digital, this app is the first indoor wayfinding solution for people with a visual impairment to navigate in complex venues such as museums or universities! Evelity works like a GPS.

Compatible with VoiceOver and TalkBack, the app provides audio instructions to blind and visually impaired people to guide them step by step. People with disabilities can easily find the reception desk or the classroom without needing to know the premises in advance.

Evelity is currently being tested at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station in New York City! 

Other places in France have been equipped with this app to guide blind and visually impaired people: the metro network of Marseilles, the LUMA Foundation and a medical university in Lyon.

Available on both Android and iOS

MyMoveo

We’re once again on the theme of mobility with MyMoveo developed by Okeenea Tech. This app enables blind or visually impaired users to activate connected Accessible Pedestrian Signals aBeacon to know when the pedestrian signal is green and thus safely cross the street.

Users can even use the app to activate the audio beacons NAVIGUEO+ HIFI which can locate points of interest such as the entrances of a public building or a subway station.

Available on both Android and iOS, an update is coming! 

Be My Eyes

An app with which users can ask the help of sighted users in order to match their clothes or to know the expiry date of a product. Thanks to an audio-video connexion, users can easily get in touch. 

Available on both Android and iOS

Aira

Aira works in the same way as Be My Eyes since it connects nonsighted people with sighted ones to help them in various tasks such as finding the gate of an airport.

What sets this app apart is that the sighted users, called agents, are specifically trained to assist blind or visually impaired users referred to as Explorers. 

Although the app can be downloaded for free, users are charged according to the different plans and services Aira provides. Depending on the formula they choose and their needs, the cost can thus be high.

Available on both Android and iOS

Seeing AI

A multipurpose app that permits to read and describe all types of documents placed under the smartphone camera such as banknotes or product barcodes.

Seeing AI even recognizes images, colors and faces and thus gives details on people’s emotions. 

Apps such as Seeing AI are truly groundbreaking for blind and visually impaired people who can still see their environment in a different way.

Available on iOS

Lookout

Lookout is the equivalent app of Seeing AI on Android. The user just has to activate their smartphone camera so that Lookout can identify banknotes, objects… Thanks to its Quick Read Mode, the app skims through a text which is ideal when sorting the mail for example.

An app that enables blind and visually impaired people to simplify their everyday tasks and to save time!

Available on Android

 

We can see that blind or visually impaired people can use a lot of apps to improve their autonomy especially concerning their mobility.

If you want to know more about people with a visual impairment, you can read our articles:

8 Key Points to Ensure Accessibility for Customers with a Vision Disabilities at Public Venues

6 Tips to Communicate with a Blind or Visually Impaired Person

How Do the Blind Safely Cross the Road?

Updated on March 29th, 2023 / Published on October 30th, 2020

 

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9 Must-Have Apps for People with Physical Disabilities

9 Must-Have Apps for People with Physical Disabilities

by | 14 Aug, 2020

9 Must-Have Apps for People with Physical Disabilities

 

For people with physical disabilities, getting around in their everyday lives can be extremely difficult. Indeed, for wheelchair users a lot of obstacles can turn their trip into a nightmare like curbs that aren’t lowered or buildings with narrow entrances. They need to find business places, parking spots or even restrooms that are easily accessible for them. In the United States, there are approximately 2.7 million people who use a wheelchair. How can they navigate their way in the city and fully enjoy it?

Luckily, smartphones and apps in particular have made their lives better as it’s the case for deaf and hard of hearing people. Several apps are available that help them be more autonomous and more serene in their trips. Some were even created especially for people with poor dexterity or with reduced use of their upper limbs so that they can use their phones without any struggle. 

Let’s take a look at 9 free apps for people with mobility impairments that are entirely at their service!

Google Maps

One of the most used apps for GPS navigation is without doubt Google Maps. It offers street maps, street views, aerial photography and satellite imagery to visualize any place. It also gives information on traffic and on public transportation and plans your route according to the mode of travel (by foot, driving).

Thanks to the street views, the users can zoom in every part of a street to see if the curbs are lowered, an essential point for people in wheelchairs who want to get around in the city.

The app can be extremely helpful for wheelchair users with several features especially designed for them since it can show the exact location of the elevators and ramps that are laid in the city. They just need to select the “wheelchair accessible” option when they’re planning their route. 

If they want to use public transportation, Google Maps can even inform them on which modes of transport would best suit them.

The very new “accessible places” feature provides all the information concerning the layout of the premises wheelchair users need to know: entrance, parking spots, restrooms, seating arrangements… Whether they want to shop or eat at a restaurant, people with mobility impairment can easily find places accessible for them.

Available on both Android and iOS

 

Wheelmap

Another app that focuses on finding all the accessible places is Wheelmap. Not only does it map all the accessible places (restaurants, cafés, boutiques…) all over the world but it’s supplied by users. People with physical disabilities collect all the data necessary and transmit it to Wheelmap: they can upload images and leave comments. Thus sharing their experience with others who go through the same obstacles, they are in control of their environment. 

Wheelmap even gathers a community and organizes events for fellow users to join.

Plus, the app can be set in 32 languages. 

Available on both Android and iOS

AccessNow

A similar app to Wheelmap, AccessNow maps and locates several types of accessible places all around the world: restaurants, hotels, shops… The users can add information that can be rated by all.

Available on both Android and iOS

WheelMate

Focusing on locating only parking spots and restrooms, WheelMate also depends on information given by its users whether by adding new places or by rating them. 

More than 35 000 locations are mapped across 45 countries.

Available on iOS

FuelService

Although this app can only be used in the United Kingdom, it’s extremely innovative and helpful for disabled drivers to find a gas station with attendants who can help refueling their car. Thanks to this app, drivers who use wheelchairs can contact attendants to tell them they’re on their way. Attendants are then notified once the drivers arrive. The app also tells the drivers how many minutes they need to wait before being served.

Thus a task that can be challenging for a driver in a wheelchair can easily be done thanks to fuelService.

Available on both Android and iOS

 

IFTTT

Even though this app wasn’t designed for people with physical disabilities in particular, it can apply to them since its goal is to simplify the tasks of our everyday lives by connecting your different apps together. It even works with social networks.

Over 600 apps can be connected to IFTTT creating various combinations called “applets”. Thus, different tasks that people with poor dexterity struggle with can be automatically done such as set the home thermostat at the ideal temperature, read an email aloud, control everything at home with voice and Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant…

Setting all the necessary applets enables people with reduced dexterity to control every single task. They’re the ones who control everything thus making the app apply to their lives. 

Available on both Android and iOS

Google Assistant 

As previously mentioned, Google Assistant is activated by voice. People with reduced dexterity can use it to control their phones and ask them to call or text someone, send an email, set up alarms… 

Available on both Android and iOS

Google Voice Access

This app even goes further since it was especially created for people with reduced dexterity who can struggle to manipulate their phones. 

This accessibility service enables users to ask basic commands such as sending a text and address commands that directly involve what’s on the screen. The user doesn’t need to touch his phone to click or to scroll. Every task can be hands-free and easily operated by voice commands.

Available on Android

AssistiveTouch

A feature that can be set to help users to use their phones without having to use their fingers to access functions on their phones. 

Depending on their dexterity capacity, users can set AssistiveTouch to customize their actions. They can choose to do a single tap, a double tap or a long press. It’s even possible to create new gestures thus adapting more precisely the feature to the dexterity capacity of the user. The feature can record any movement the user wants to perform.

Available on both Android and iOS

Thanks to these apps and features, people with physical disabilities gain more autonomy and independence. Today technology rimes with accessibility for all. Clearly, it leaves no one behind and moves forward to meet the needs of everybody.

Updated on December 28th, 2021 / Published on August 14th, 2020

Find out more on physical disabilities:

What Accessibility Solutions for Different Types of Physical Disabilities?

8 Tips to Welcome a Person with a Physical Disability

Obstacles in Public Transport: What Solutions for Physical Disability?

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5 Must-Have Apps for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

5 Must-Have Apps for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

by | 17 Jan, 2020

5 Must-Have Apps for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

 

Les avancées technologiques peuvent faire des miracles. Pour les 466 millions de personnes dans le monde souffrant d’une perte auditive invalidante ( OMS ), les smartphones sont devenus un outil essentiel pour faciliter les interactions sociales grâce à la perception de la parole.

Aujourd’hui, 95 % des personnes sourdes et malentendantes utilisent un smartphone au quotidien dans les pays développés. De nombreuses applications contribuent à éliminer les principaux obstacles à la communication qui entravent le quotidien de millions de personnes sourdes et malentendantes à travers le monde.

Pour vous aider à démarrer, nous avons sélectionné pour vous les 5 meilleures applications de 2022 pour aider vos visiteurs malentendants à vous contacter, à communiquer sur place et à bénéficier des services disponibles. Cette liste non exhaustive ne remplace pas les dispositifs déjà disponibles dans votre établissement, comme les boucles magnétiques, mais constitue plutôt un complément optionnel pour mieux accueillir les personnes sourdes ou malentendantes dans votre établissement ou lors de réunions de concertation.

Paramètres d’accessibilité du smartphone

Avant de se précipiter sur Google Play ou l’App Store, il est important de vérifier auprès de l’utilisateur que les paramètres d’accessibilité de son smartphone sont bien configurés. De bons réglages sont plus efficaces qu’une application qui surcharge l’appareil.

Les fonctionnalités des téléphones sont souvent sous-utilisées en raison du manque de communication entre les systèmes d’exploitation et de leur constante évolution. Elles sont pourtant simples à activer et très utiles. Voici celles que vous devez communiquer à vos équipes si nécessaire cette année.

Tout d’abord, renseignez-vous sur le modèle du téléphone . La personne possède-t-elle un iPhone ? Pour les utilisateurs d’iPhone 5 ou ultérieurs, le téléphone inclut plusieurs options d’accessibilité de base, telles que :

⊗ Contrôle du volume

⊗  Écoute en direct pour les personnes malentendantes afin de mieux percevoir leur interlocuteur lors d’une conversation, même s’il se trouve à l’autre bout de la pièce ou dans un environnement bruyant. Le son peut être transmis à des aides auditives compatibles Made for iPhone, des AirPods ou des Powerbeats.

⊗  Audio mono pour les personnes malentendantes d’une oreille. Les enregistrements stéréo diffusent des informations audio distinctes dans chaque oreille. L’audio mono vous permet d’entendre les mêmes informations dans les deux oreilles.

⊗  La configuration des protocoles RTT et TTY pour passer des appels sous forme de texte en direct.

⊗  Alertes visibles et vibrantes pour éviter de manquer des appels, des messages et des notifications avec la possibilité de choisir plusieurs options de vibration ainsi qu’une lampe de poche.

⊗  Siri en tapant la question souhaitée.

Des raccourcis peuvent être configurés pour simplifier l’accès aux fonctionnalités par un triple clic. Invitez les utilisateurs à effectuer la dernière mise à jour de leur appareil pour accéder aux dernières fonctionnalités.

Sur les téléphones Android, les fonctionnalités natives sont moins nombreuses, mais complétées par des applications téléchargeables. À ce jour, les smartphones fonctionnant sous Android offrent les fonctionnalités d’accessibilité suivantes pour les personnes sourdes et malentendantes :

⊗  Transcription instantanée pour suivre une conversation en direct dans plus de 70 langues et participer rapidement à la conversation grâce à la synthèse vocale.

⊗  Sous-titres avec possibilité de choisir les préférences des sous-titres à utiliser (langue, texte et style).

⊗  Sous-titres instantanés : cette fonctionnalité est automatique pour tout le contenu multimédia en cours de lecture sur les appareils Google Pixel uniquement.

⊗  Compatibilité avec les aides auditives qui vous permet de coupler des aides auditives avec un appareil Android pour entendre plus clairement.

⊗  Messagerie instantanée en temps réel (RTT) compatible avec les ATS. Comme sur iPhone, cette option permet de saisir du texte pour communiquer en direct pendant un appel.

5 applications essentielles pour les personnes sourdes et malentendantes

Une fois votre téléphone correctement configuré, il est temps d’installer des applications adaptées à votre utilisation. Nous avons sélectionné pour vous six applications gratuites et utiles pour améliorer l’accessibilité en 2022 et communiquer facilement avec les personnes sourdes et malentendantes.

Ava 

Une application de transcription instantanée qui retranscrit en direct les propos d’un groupe de personnes. Chaque participant installe l’application sur son smartphone et, grâce au microphone, les conversations sont transcrites. Cette application permet aux personnes sourdes ou malentendantes de suivre distinctement une conversation au sein d’un groupe sans avoir à lire sur les lèvres.

Utile pour les utilisateurs d’iPhone qui n’ont pas accès à la célèbre fonctionnalité native de transcription instantanée de Google lors de vos réunions de consultation.

Disponible sur iOS et Android .

RogerVoice 

L’application française mondialement connue créée en 2013 par Olivier Jeannel propose deux options.

La première fonctionnalité est la transcription en direct des conversations téléphoniques dans plus de 100 langues, ainsi que la possibilité de répondre par synthèse vocale. Les personnes sourdes, malentendantes ou ayant des difficultés d’élocution peuvent utiliser le téléphone pour converser avec leur interlocuteur et recevoir un texte dactylographié de ses propos.

L’application va plus loin en proposant de passer des appels grâce à l’aide d’interprètes LSF diplômés et de codeurs LPC diplômés (en France uniquement). Une version gratuite offre jusqu’à une heure d’appel par visio-interprétation. 

Une application utile pour les personnes sourdes ou malentendantes qui souhaitent demander des informations sur votre lieu à distance.

Disponible sur iOS et Android.

Amplificateur de son

L’application Sound Amplifier pour Android est l’équivalent de l’option « Écoute en direct » incluse dans les paramètres de base de l’iPhone. Elle offre toutefois des fonctions plus avancées pour le réglage du volume sonore et la suppression des bruits de fond.

L’application Sound Amplifier améliore la qualité audio des appareils Android avec un casque, pour une expérience d’écoute plus confortable et naturelle. Elle amplifie et amplifie les sons du monde réel.

Cette application peut être très utile si votre lieu dispose d’un environnement sonore médiocre.

Disponible sur Android . Notez que l’application Sound Amplifier fait partie des paramètres natifs des téléphones Google Pixel.

TapSOS

L’application britannique Tap SOS permet aux personnes sourdes et malentendantes d’entrer en contact avec les services d’urgence de manière non verbale. En créant un profil incluant leurs antécédents médicaux, les secouristes peuvent prodiguer les meilleurs soins en cas d’urgence. 

Lors de la connexion avec un service d’urgence, l‘application localise l’emplacement exact et envoie toutes les données stockées dans le profil de l’utilisateur en quelques secondes.

L’application a remporté le prix Digital Health Award 2018 en tant que méthode la plus efficace pour tous les utilisateurs de smartphones pour contacter les services d’urgence en situation de détresse.

Disponible sur iOS et Android.

Visionneuse de sous-titres

Grâce aux microphones des smartphones, l’application Subtitle Viewer permet aux personnes sourdes et malentendantes de visualiser des sous-titres en différentes langues en direct sur leur téléphone. Les sous-titres s’affichent en temps réel et le texte est mis en surbrillance.

L’application se synchronise avec la télévision et les films au cinéma. D’autres applications similaires sont disponibles sur le marché et peuvent accueillir les personnes malentendantes dans vos cinémas si les séances ne sont pas sous-titrées.

Disponible sur iOS et Android.

Comme vous pouvez le constater, les smartphones peuvent être d’excellents outils à portée de main pour aider les personnes malentendantes à mieux vivre. Qu’ils facilitent l’accès au marché du travail, à la culture, aux soins médicaux et aux services publics, les technologies actuelles favorisent les liens sociaux entre les personnes sourdes et malentendantes et le reste de la population, sans pour autant remplacer le contact humain.

Grâce à ces applications, la communication entre les personnes sourdes et malentendantes et les personnes entendantes n’a jamais été aussi simple !

Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus sur la déficience auditive, consultez ces articles :

Accessibilité à l’information dans les transports publics : 5 solutions pour les usagers sourds et malentendants

Ce que vous devez faire pour garantir l’accessibilité des personnes sourdes dans les lieux publics

Personnes malentendantes : une multitude de profils pour des besoins différents

Mis à jour le 28 décembre 2021 / Publié le 17 janvier 2020

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