App Accommodates the Access Needs of Seniors and People with Vision Impairments

HILLIARD, Ohio, Oct. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAL Group Apps4Android today announced the release of EasyAccess for Android (EA4A), a new Android "shell" representing a new Android operating mode. EA4A provides a new and easy way to access and use six of Android's basic applications including:

• Phone Dialer
• Call Log
• Text Messaging
• Contacts
• Status
• Settings

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EA4A is being made available to users at no cost. Apps4Android's user and implementation documentation is being released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License from the following webpage: http://ideal-group.org/ea-docs/

EA4A's source code is being licensed as Apache 2.0 code and is available from GitHub: https://github.com/saurabh2590/EasyAccess

EA4A is available from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.easyaccess

According to Steve Jacobs, CEO of Apps4Android, "In addition to making smart phones more accessible, we developed EasyAccess to serve as an example of what's possible using standard Google APIs and are pleased to release our source code to the open source community."

Eve Andersson, Manager, Accessibility Engineering for Google stated, "We are pleased to see developers like Apps4Android take full advantage of Google's library of sample accessibility code, accessibility guidelines, documentation, and APIs to make their apps accessible to everyone."

About Google

Google is an American multinational leader in technology that aims to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were attending Stanford University at the time, Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.
More: http://www.google.com/about/

About Apps4Android, Inc.

Established in January 2009, Apps4Android is the world's largest developer of Android accessibility apps with 13+ million installations. Apps4Android's mobile apps are being used on 5,587 different model Android devices made by 73 wireless device manufacturers and distributed by 544 different wireless services providers in 213 countries. More: http://apps4android.org

Media Contact:

Steve Jacobs
Phone: (614) 777-0660
Fax: (614) 522-1031
TTY: (800) 750-0750
Email

SOURCE Apps4Android

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