Accessibility with View.
At Horton AppWorks, accessibility isn’t an afterthought — it’s one of our core principles. All individuals should have access to our applications and services, enabling them to fully realize their potential.
Here’s how we’ve built accessibility into the core of View:
Gesture-Based Navigation
Forget complex menus or tiny buttons. View relies on intuitive swipes:
Swipe left to hear a description of your surroundings.
Swipe right to ask a question.
Swipe down to open settings.
These gestures are simple to learn and effortless to use — even with one hand.
Sound & Haptic Feedback
Every action in View is paired with a distinct, custom-designed sound and haptic pulse. This gives users immediate, non-visual confirmation of what’s happening:
A gentle tap means the app is listening.
A harder tap means the app is about to describe your surroundings.
A tripple tap means that an error occurred within the app.
A light soft tone signals that the app is listening.
A slightly darker tone signals that a description is incoming.
A tripple light tone signals that the app requires the user’s attention. Either because an error occurred, or during navigation mode, the app discovered dangerous obstacles.
The result? Confidence and clarity, without needing to look at the screen.
Visual Awareness / Navigation Mode
View describes the user’s surroundings. However, navigation mode takes this a step further by providing instructions on how to navigate the immediate environment. It also alerts the user to potential dangers. If any dangers are detected in the user’s path, View will inform the user about the danger and ensure that the user notices it through sound, color, and haptic feedback. Additionally, the user must acknowledge the danger to continue navigating; this can be accomplished by double-tapping the screen.
Color Feedback
Every action in View is also paired with a distinct color, a glowing border around the screen will let people with low vision understand, what’s happening on screen, without sound or haptics.
A light white border signals the app is listening.
A blue border signals the app is about to describe your surroundings.
A red border signals that the app requires the user’s attention. Either because an error occurred, or during navigation mode, the app discovered dangerous obstacles.
Interactive Audio-Haptic Tutorial
On first launch, View walks you through every gesture, sound, and vibration. You can feel, hear, and repeat actions at your own pace, making the experience approachable and empowering from the start.
Adjustable Visual Description Levels
In settings, users can choose how detailed they want the AI to describe the scene. From basic outlines (“a person standing in a park”) to richly detailed, imaginative descriptions that help visually impaired users truly picture their environment. Users that rely on View can receive descriptions helping them to navigate, while others might just want to know what they are looking at.
Audio
The View is also able to read aloud its surroundings and provide verbal descriptions of events. We offer a range of audio modes that cater to your individual pace and comprehension level.
Utilizing Accessibility Settings
View is designed to support and work perfectly with your device natives accessibility settings.
We are not done.
Accessibility is not a feature — it’s a standard. View aims to set a new one. We will continue to develop innovative features to enhance the user experience for all our customers.
Whether you use it out of curiosity or necessity, we hope it makes your world a little clearer, one swipe at a time.
Team Horton