EVERYONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN DIGITAL LIFE.
Unfortunately, this is often not the case for AAC users. Join-In is a new software solution designed to overcome this challenge and allow AAC users to engage, experience and enjoy Digital Life like the rest of us.
With Join-In You Can:
Read posts, publish posts, share your comments…
Make video calls, chat with friends and family
Watch, subscribe to channels, browse, search…
Connect with friends and family on WhatsApp
Browse, search and watch Netflix movies and TV series
Listen, create play lists, search songs and artists…
Follow people, post your own pictures
Translate messages you write or recieve…
Participate in meetings, start meetings and invite others….
How it works
Join-In creates an accessible, simple, and consistent digital environment for using popular apps and websites. The environment is optimized for people with complex disabilities and for AAC users.
The three design principles are:
Accessibility – Join-In supports a wide range of sensory, cognitive, and physical access needs. Each app is paired with a specifically designed dynamic toolbar, offering convenient interaction with the app via large buttons. Key objects in the browser area are highlighted and, in some cases, enlarged to allow user-friendly navigation and selection.
Simplicity – the dynamic toolbars make the most common actions on each screen easy to find and perform. Special controls provide simplified access to advanced functions, and to functions that are difficult to execute using certain input devices, e.g., switch scanning, eye tracking, etc.
Consistency – while each app has its own dynamic toolbar, the design of the different toolbars is consistent across apps – e.g., the location of buttons related to common functionality, the logic behind common flows, and the icons. This makes the learning process easier.
Join-In Pro
Join-In Pro, the newcomer to the Join-In family of products, provides an inclusive digital environment for interacting with a variety of popular apps and websites. It is optimized for people with complex disabilities and caters to anyone who may benefit from enhanced accessibility, AAC and non-AAC users alike.
It is a complete solution and does not require an AAC package or any other software package.
Note: The Join-In Pro license enables the use of Join-In for Grid 3 and Join-In for Communicator 5 in addition to the new Join-In Pro
Why Join-In Pro?
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New Audience
Join-In Pro caters to anyone who may benefit from enhanced accessibility – AAC and non-AAC users alike. It is a complete solution and does not require an AAC package or any other software package.
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Synchronization
Increased real-time synchronization between the toolbars and the underlying apps – when using the app, the toolbar adjusts itself to make it easier for the user to understand which options are available at any given moment.
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Transparency
Automatic and transparent processes for updating the toolbars, in response to changes in the underlying apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc.) and for adding new apps. No need for the user to install or update anything.
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Join-In Facebook – Post with Video
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Join-In Pro YouTube – Search Results
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Join-In Facebook – Playing a Video
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Customization
Customizable keyboards – users can easily customize their keyboards according to their preferred layout, color scheme, and supported languages. All keyboards Include emojis and custom pre-stored phrases by category.
Toolbars customization – users select their preferred toolbar style – full or simplified, and the toolbar color scheme, size, location and font size.
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New Features
All new accessible and customizable file Explorer – enables convenient selection of pictures and other files for sharing.
A scannable browser window – allows for more efficient use of the apps by switch scanners.
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New Content
New, streamlined and simplified flows based on analysis of use patterns and user feedback.
New Apps – a variety of games for kids and adults.
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Emoji Keyboard
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Accessible File Explorer
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Games for Kids and Adults
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Version 1.0 of Join-In-Pro supports the following apps:
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Join-In Pro Facebook
- Publish posts
- Read posts, have Join-In Pro read posts for you
- Find friends, pages, groups, …
- Watch video clips
- And more
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Join-In Pro WhatsApp
- Connect with friends and family
- Read messages, have Join-In Pro read for you
- View media items included in messages
- Attach media items to your message
- And more
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Join-In Pro Messenger
- Connect with friends and family
- Initiate video calls
- Chat and type messages while participating in video calls
- Attach media items to your messages
- And more
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Join-In Pro YouTube
- Watch videos in full screen
- Search for videos, create and save your favorite search phrases
- Subscribe to channels, manage your liked videos, your “watch later” list
- And more
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Join-In Pro Memozor Games
- Play one of many Matching Games
- Select and play “Simon Games”
- Practice your multiplication skills
- Control the game settings – number of cards, speed etc.
- Select the mode – one player, play agains computer, play with a friend
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Join-In Pro Android SMS
• Send and receive text and emojis
• Attach GIFs, stickers and files
• Start a Group Chat and send messages to the group
• Send your messages in any language, and translate incoming messages from any language using Google Translate
• Open and download attached items
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Join-In Pro Pro Netflix
- Watch your favorite movies and TV shows
- Search for movies and TV shows
- Browse movies, movies by genre, TV shows, TV shows by genre…
- Browse kids movies and TV shows by character…
- Browse seasons and episodes
- Manage your list (“My List”), your language preferences…
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Join-In Pro Google Translate
- Translate to any language – directly from the Join-In Pro keyboard
- Use Google Trandslate to send and receive messages in any laguage, using the Join-In Pro messengers
- Listen to any message in any language, using Translate text to speech
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Join-In Pro HTML Games
- Play challenging mind games – with cards, numbers, balls and more
- Adjust the difficulty level
- Fully control the games and the games’ parameters with your access method
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Who Can Benefit From Join-In?
Join-In caters to users of Windows-based AAC solutions who want to join digital life regardless of their access method, age & literacy level
- Switch Users
Perform all the desired activities using a standard AAC button-based solution
- Eye Tracking Users
Enjoy a highly efficient solution combining the selection of AAC buttons with direct selection of objects from the browser area
- Touch Users
Benefit from a protected environment, combining the AAC buttons with a dynamic virtual keyguard
- Pointer Users
Enjoy a highly efficient solution combining the selection of AAC buttons with direct selection of objects from the browser area
- Text communication users
Enjoy full application capabilities, including most advanced functions, while working in a friendly AAC environment
- Symbol communication users
Can use their communication app to send messages with symbols in the messenger apps, or post symbol messages to Facebook
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