MobiHealth News September 24, 2021
Laura Lovett

The new features will let folks with speech and motor impairments navigate their smartphones and communicate.

Accessibility is one of the main themes in Google’s latest Android features.

Individuals with speech and motor impairments will now be able to navigate their smartphones through self-selected facial gestures and eye movements, thanks to a new feature called Camera Switches.

When using this feature, the phone’s front-facing camera becomes a switch. Users are able to choose a certain movement to scan and a second movement to select. The movement can be anything from an open mouth, smile, raised eyebrow or looking a certain direction.

Also focused on the accessibility space, Project Activate is targeted at individuals that do not speak and...

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