For the most part, you will need to get the source code and modify it to do
what you want.  You can also build the "SpareParts" app which has a control
for the font size across the UI...  though unfortunately right now many apps
don't respect it (because they don't use sp units for their font size).

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:52 PM, pepito grillo <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi, I would like to know the way to make a user interface for Android
> for people that have low vision.
> The idea is to make a UI with the following features:
> 1- Uses very very big buttons.
> 2 -Uses very big font size.
> 3- Te colors to use are basically black and white (for more contrast).
> 4- The icons in this UI are not relevant.
> 5- We must sacrifice the number of chars that we can show in the
> screen to get bigger labels and buttons.
> 6- A simple zoom system for the images should be a great idea.
> 7- We can use the camera of the phone to get a magnifying glass.
>
> I'm member of a blind people association in Spain and we think that
> this should be a great idea for begining a new low-vision-user-
> interface that is not aviable in the market for the new mobile phones.
> This will help many people that uses movile phones but have many
> difficulties to work with them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
>


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