- On the occasion of the first edition of m4All Day, mobile day for all, the Mobile World Capital presents a selection of mobile solutions for people with different types of disabilities.
- Hearing impaired, physically handicapped, or even elderly people with limitations can improve their quality of life thanks to applications (apps) on their mobile phones.
- Communicating with a deaf or blind person or finding out which points in a museum are not accessible without having to go anywhere is now possible by downloading simple apps to your mobile phone.
September 19, 2013
How can we make it possible for a deaf person to communicate using a mobile phone? Can we combine home automation and mobile solutions to make life easier for the elderly? To answer these and other questions, Mobile World Capital Barcelona is organising m4All Day, an event as part of the 18th Barcelona Associations Show with the aim of improving the quality of life of disabled people through the use of apps on their mobile or tablet.
In this context, the Mobile World Capital has made a selection of apps that bring together the latest and most outstanding innovations in this field, drawn up by technology professionals, and which aims to be a guide to the most useful mobile solutions for people with various disabilities.
Adaptation of Audiovisual Contents (AYNA) – www.s-dos.es
Ayna is a mobile application (Android/iOS) that facilitates the synchronous reception and broadcasting of audiovisual content adaptations. The application is aimed at people with sensory impairments and people with attention deficit, on smartphones and tablets. Ayna allows access to audiovisual content through subtitling of films, series, documentaries, etc. played on TV, cinema, radio, or in the theatre.
Prometteo –www.prometteo.com
The Prometteo app is a complement to the deaf travellers’ community (web format). Users download the app to find out about the adapted places in the city. In this way, by combining the official information we upload in video format about all the city’s monuments with the information uploaded by the users themselves, it is easy to travel by locating all the places that are sensitive to this disability.
SVIsual application for access to the video-interpretation service for deaf people – www.fundacioncnse.org
Allows deaf people to contact the SVIsual video-interpretation service from smartphone and tablet devices, for access to the telephone and face-to-face services of the entities. Use with 3G and WiFi. The configuration parameters come by default. Visual and intuitive design. The user only has to press the LSE or LSC button (Spanish or Catalan sign language). Allows to activate and deactivate the loudspeaker and the microphone, choose the front or rear camera.
Easy home control, for everyone – www.cvi-bcn.org
See-Home is an application for controlling and visualising, in an intuitive and simple way, homes that incorporate home automation installations. It allows total control of lights, climate, shutter motors, water or gas valves, etc. In addition, it has a great capacity for customisation to adapt to different user and home profiles. This visualisation and control can be carried out from the home itself or by remote connection via mobile networks.
Esaccesible App –www.esaccesibleapp.com
Application for mobiles and tablets to assess accessibility and be able to find and share places (bars, restaurants, hotels, car parks, etc.) that are accessible for people with mobility difficulties. With the collaboration of its users, it will be possible to build a collaborative and social project of accessible leisure and tourism.
Mobile Accessibility – www.codefactory.es
Mobile Accessibility is an accessible application that allows blind people to use an Android phone in an intuitive, easy and simple way.
Tur4all App, Accessible Tourism, Tourism for All – www.predif.org
TUR4all is a free accessible application promoted by the Vodafone Spain Foundation with the support of PREDIF and the Royal Board on Disability. The aim of this application is to offer people with disabilities and the general public information on the accessibility conditions of more than 1,400 tourist establishments throughout Spain. It allows users to plan their trip, establish search criteria based on their own needs and, on the spot, locate the nearest accessible tourist establishments.
APPSccesibles –http://fundacion.vodafone.es/
This application has been developed by the Vodafone Spain Foundation to offer accessible applications in a single location that can quickly and easily help people with disabilities or the elderly. This portal has applications developed in collaboration with other entities or by collaborators within the framework of national and European projects. All the applications have been validated by the target groups.
Communicator ONCE – http://cidat.once.es
This application is a tool that enables communication between deafblind people and their interlocutors through the exchange of written information. It is a programme to help people with hearing loss that does not allow them to understand spoken messages and, at the same time, a visual impairment. The application makes it easier to carry out everyday tasks that involve communicative interaction, such as shopping, making a doctor’s appointment, asking for an address or the price of a consumer item, etc.
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