Cross-App Vision Setting Import for Visual Impairment Accessibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Visually impaired users face difficulties interacting with applications due to varying visual impairments, and existing accessibility settings are not standardized across applications, requiring manual adjustment in each application individually, with users often unaware of their impairments.
Innovation Solution
An automated system that uses interactive games to diagnose visual impairments and imports compatible settings from one application to another, leveraging a database or decision tree to determine corresponding settings across different operating systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually adjust accessibility settings in each application individually, then each application can be optimized for user needs, but the process is time-consuming and users may not realize they have visual impairments
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects visual impairments and configures accessibility settings without requiring manual user input. The vision impairment detection module autonomously assesses user visual capabilities through interactive tests and automatically applies appropriate settings across applications, eliminating the need for users to manually configure each setting individually.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of visual impairments before the user needs to interact with applications. By conducting vision tests and detecting impairments in advance, the system pre-configures accessibility settings so they are ready to be applied automatically when the user launches applications, saving time and effort.
2Adaptability or versatility
If there is no standard for accessibility settings between applications, then each application can have customized settings, but users must set preferences individually in each application
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes a universal standard for accessibility settings that works across multiple applications. The vision impairment detection module and settings configuration module operate consistently across different applications, providing a unified approach to accessibility that reduces the complexity of managing settings in each individual application.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the user and individual application settings. The accessibility settings module acts as a mediator that receives detection results and automatically translates them into appropriate settings for each application, simplifying the user's interaction with multiple applications while maintaining customized settings.
3Reliability
If users attribute difficulties to application design rather than visual impairment, then applications can be used as-is, but users may not receive appropriate accessibility support
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users about their visual capabilities through interactive vision tests. By conducting tests and providing results, the system helps users become aware of their visual impairments while simultaneously providing reliable detection data that triggers appropriate accessibility settings automatically.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, system and computer program product for automated visual setting importation is disclosed. A first application running on a first device requests a vision setting for a second application. A vision setting of the first application running on a first device is determined to correspond to the vision setting for the second application. The vision setting for the second application is then applied to the corresponding vision setting of the first application.