About this app
*** WARNING: If your phone has Android version from 5 until 7, install CPqD ALCANCE+ available in the Play Store. ***
CPqD Alcance is a launcher application, designed for blind or visually impaired people, especially for beginners or the ones who have difficulty with technology.
SEE THE DEMONSTRATION VIDEO TO KNOW MORE AND TO LEARN HOW TO USE.
The CPqD Alcance application allows the visually impaired people to use different functions of a touchscreen smartphone with autonomy, privacy and simplicity, improving their life quality and appropriating the facilities of digital and connected world.
This application has an inclusive interaction model that combines automatic screen reader with Brazilian Portuguese text to speech and a standardized interface for the functions (described below).
When the user slides the finger across the screen, the application speaks the function name related to the place where the finger is located, and it is possible to select the functionality with double-touch. Watch the demonstration video to learn more.
CPqD Alcance is a free and no advertising application, it has the basic features of a mobile phone and a package of advanced functions, including entertainment.
Basic Functions:
• Make and receive phone calls.
• Check calls history.
• Keep the phone contacts.
• Send and receive text messages (SMS).
• Check the smartphone battery level and mobile operator signal.
• Check the date and time.
Advanced Features:
• Alarm clock with voice reminder.
• Music player.
• Weather forecast based on INPE.
• News.
• GPS functions ("where am I" and "auxiliary navigation" functions).
• Camera and photo gallery.
• Text file reader.
• Operating system applications access (no voice support).
• Personal settings (speech and ringer settings, automatic notifications, accessibility and facilities).
*** ATTENTION:
AFTER INSTALL, THE CPqD ALCANCE WILL BE THE STANDARD INTERFACE OF THE SMARTPHONE (LAUNCHER). To disable the application, search in the last page of the main menu the option “DESATIVAR O CPQD ALCANCE” (represented by "X") and CONFIRM. After that, you will be asked to select Android start, select TOUCHWIZ, START TOUCHWIZ, START, LAUNCHER or similar term (depending on the manufacturer) and touch the "SEMPRE" button to restore the phone.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
• This app uses Accessibility services.
• Applies to Android versions 2 until 4.
• Smartphone with more than one SIMCard may have limitations on the second chip.
App Permissions
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.
Allows an application to see the number being dialed during an outgoing call with the option to redirect the call to a different number or abort the call altogether.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read SMS messages.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to monitor incoming MMS messages.
Allows an application to receive SMS messages.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.
Allows an application to write (but not read] the user's call log data.
Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to change the Z-order of tasks.
