[vi-android] Android L - Accessibility Options
- From: "Dialup @ 56k" <dialup56k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:01:56 +1100
Here's a quick review of Accessibility Options in Android 5.
Glen
Android 5.0 Tour: Accessibility Options— by Daniel Tyson.
Android Lollipop.
One part of Android which has been lagging behind the competition has
been in the accessibility options for vision impaired users. In Android
5.0, Google has addressed this adding in accessibility options for
people with ‘low vision’ or who are colour blind.
The accessibility options introduced in Android 5.0 include an option to
boost text contrast, or ‘invert colours to improve legibility’ and
‘Adjust display to improve color differentiation’. All of these options
are stored under the Settings > Accessibility menu.
At this stage, whether it’s just in the developer preview or a
foreshadowing of what will come in the final release of Lollipop, all
these settings are marked as ‘Experimental’. You can certainly turn them
all on and check out the results but be warned bugs may crop up as you
use them.
One note, we’ve used the US spelling of Colour in this to keep in the
theme of what you’ll see in settings etc. we all know that Color is US only.
High Contrast text
High Contrast text enlarges text overall, it makes the text a two toned
with a white body and black outline. As you can see the results below
the text does stand out a fair bit. It’s not uniform though, with some
text staying the same and some displaying as High Contrast.
Color Inversion
One quite interesting new feature in the accessiblity options is Color
Inversion. It essentially inverts all the colours on your screen. The
change is done at the panel level, with the results not able to be
captured by screenshots. it’s quite useful on white backgrounds, which
invert to black, but where it gets quite hard to see with no vision
impairment is on brightly coloured backgrounds.
Color Correction
Color Correction is the option which Google has introduced in Android to
address Deuteranomaly, or as it’s more commonly known: Colour Blindness,
specifically in this instance, red/green colour blindness.
Just like Color Inversion, the results of Color Correction can’t
actually be captured with a screenshot. Again, it’s a change to the
settings on the display.
The success or failure of how these new accessibility options fare will
come down to users who actually require them. Without the facilities to
test out their reception we look forward to feedback from people who’ve
been waiting for these inclusions. Hopefully these updates help.
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