The web experience has become an integral part of our lives. It is hard to imagine life without the Internet, and especially on our mobile devices. So, Mobile Accessibility provides easy to use and powerful access to web content with an accessible Web browser, allowing you to navigate web pages in the way you are used to with your desktop screen reader.
Let’s understand how to work with the Mobile Accessibility Web Application. To start browsing the web, go to the Mobile Accessibility home screen, and navigate to the web application using the arrow keys or the touchscreen. Then activate the browser by either double tapping on the screen or pressing the center of the trackpad or the enter key of your phone keyboard.
Once launched, the Mobile Accessibility web app will load the home page. The default page is code factory’s home page. If you want, you can change the default home page in the web settings dialog.
While a page is loading, the mobile accessibility web app announces your download progress in percents, i.e. 44 percent. Once a page is fully loaded, a page summary with the number of frames, headings, elements and links will be spoken. At this point, you can begin to navigate the page using Mobile accessibility’s web commands.
You can navigate a web page using Mobile Accessibility navigation commands. To make the interface simple, Mobile Accessibility uses navigation modes. You can change the navigation mode and then use the Navigate To Previous Element or Navigate To Next Element commands to explore the web page. Use the long press of the menu key to toggle navigation modes. The default navigation mode is navigation by links, so if you want to navigate to the next link, you would use the swipe right gesture or press right arrow, which is the navigate next element command. If instead, you want to navigate to the next heading, you would long press the menu key once to change the navigation mode to navigate by headings and then swipe right or press right arrow to Navigate to the next element.
Similar to other Mobile Accessibility apps, another important feature of the Mobile Accessibility Web App is that you can press the menu key or triple tap to bring up a quick menu to change some options and issue a few commands that are not available using gestures.
Please keep in mind that you will need an Internet connection in order to use the Mobile Accessibility Web application. If you do not connect via Wi-Fi, please check the data plan of your operator so that you know exactly what charges are involved with downloading Internet data.
To read more about how to use the Web app of Mobile Accessibility visit http://www.codefactory.es/MA/en/ma_1_0_manual.html#_Toc286743672
Listen to the following demo: Web app of Mobile Accessibility by Carlos Palomino
To follow Carlos, visit his blog at http://www.carlospalomino.com
