AccessAble

Inspiration

The rapid digital growth due to the pandemic has made it possible to conduct business as usual remotely. Digital signatures have become more sophisticated for verifying identity when you cannot be present in person with your legal ID and are accepted in highly regulated industries like finance and healthcare. With greater adoption of digital signatures comes increasing encounters with its limitations. Namely, for those who may be mobile-impaired or -challenged, it may be hard to provide digital signatures in the tradition touch and mouse-click methods.

What it does

AccessAble is a web application that offers digital signatures with different modalities to allow for delegating and sharing data. Users can sign in via three ways:

First, users can type their credentials on the site
Second, users can sign in by using voice recognition with two-factor authentication
Third, users can use their eyes to submit a pattern as their digital signature via gaze tracking

We also provide the ability the translate information to users' language of preference.

One use case for this is that the app enables patients with different abilities like those immobile in body except for face or those with cerebral palsy who cannot control their hands to allow caretakers to share info or help make health decisions.

How we built it

We built this project using React, JavaScript, and Python.

Challenges we ran into

We learned that gaze tracking does not work with React in the way we had implemented it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We got the project to work! Also, our team member responsible for UI/UX created her first Figma prototype.

What we learned

We learned a lot about accessibility and digital privacy, relatively new technologies like voice authentication and gaze tracking, and we learned a lot about Figma.

What's next for AccessAble

Demo project to entities like hospitals that could use this product and iterate over prototypes that suit needs of themselves and the people they serve.