Prudence Screen Reader

An accessibility tool for helping visually impaired people using Android phones

About this app

Prudence Screen Reader is an accessibility tool, for helping blind, visually impaired and other people to lead independent lives by making android phones easier to access. With perfect screen reading function and multiple ways of interface, such as gesture touch.

Prudence Screen Reader includes:

Main function as a screen reader: Get spoken feedback, control your device with gestures, and type with the on-screen keyboard

Accessibility Menu shortcut: To direct to the System Accessibility Menu on one click

Touch to speak: Touch on your screen and hear the app read the items aloud

Customize Voice Libraries: Choose the voice you like to hear as feedback.

Custom gesture: Define the actions with desired gestures as the actions

Customize Reading control: Define how the reader reads the text, e.g., line by line, word by word, character by character, and etc.

Level of detail: Define what detail the reader reads, such as element type, window title, etc.

To get started:

1. Open your device’s Settings app

2. Select Accessibility

3. Select Accessibility Menu, installed apps, then choose “Prudence Screen Reader”

Permission Notice

Phone: Prudence Screen Reader observes the phone state so it can adapt announcements to your call status, your phone battery percentage, screen lock state, Internet status, and etc.

Accessibility Service: Because Prudence Screen Reader is an accessibility service, it can observe your actions, retrieve window content, and observe the text that you type. It need to use your Accessibility Service Permission to achieve screen reading, notes, voice feedbacks, and other essential accessibility functions.

Some of the functions of Prudence Screen Reader may require the permissions of your phone to work. You can choose to grant the permission or not. If not, the specific function will not be able to work but the others remains executable

android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE

Prudence Screen Reader uses th permission to check if your phone has an incoming call, so that it can read the number of the phone call receiving.

android.permission.ANSWER_PHONE_CALLS

The reader uses the permission to help users answer the phone with a more convenient, shortcut guesture.