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1# -*- mode: org -*- 2 3 4*Video: Connecting The Dots: Marvin And Android Access 5 6When we first launched project eyes-free in early spring 2009, we 7promised to post frequent video updates to the eyes-free 8channel. Well, sadly, we have been remiss in keeping that promise 9--- but all in a good cause --- we were busy building out the 10needed accessibility APIs in the core Android framework. 11 12We're now returning with a fresh set of video updates that 13demonstrate the new accessibility framework in Android, and how 14these access related tools mesh with the Eyes-Free shell shown 15earlier. 16 17To summarize: 18 19 1. All of the eyes-free utilities from project Marvin continue 20 to be developed in order to provide fluent eyes-free interaction. 21 2. The Marvin shell that we demonstrated last time continues to 22 be my default home screen. 23 3. We have added an application launcher on the Marvin screen 24 that can be launched by stroking _8_. 25 4. This launcher uses stroke dialing to quickly navigate and 26 launch applications. 27 5. With the launch of the Accessibility API in Android 28 1.6, and the accompanying Open Source TalkBack screenreader, 29 I can now launch *any* Android application, e.g., Google 30 Maps or YouTube. 31 6. TalkBack provides spoken feedback for native Android 32 applications, including the settings menu. 33 7. You can use Android Market to install third-party 34 applications, many of these work *outof the box* with TalkBack. 35 36We'll demonstrate these, and a variety of other new cool 37enhancements in these forthcoming videos, stay tuned! 38 39#+TITLE: Video: Connecting The Dots: Marvin And Android Access 40#+AUTHOR: T.V Raman 41#+EMAIL: raman@google.com 42#+DATE: 2009-03-30 Mon 43#+LANGUAGE: en 44#+OPTIONS: H:3 num:t toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t 45#TeX:t LaTeX:nil skip:nil d:nil tags:not-in-toc +LINK_UP: 46#http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/documentation/videos/index.html 47#+LINK_HOME: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/