OCARA, available for mobile devices, is primarily an application for performing a self-diagnosis of buildings accessibility. You can use expert, but you do not need to be an expert! Typically, you describe and audit the path from a given starting point to a destination in the building (for instance from the entrance to a specific meeting room). Each object you encounter is referenced up the path as you go. Objects are, for example, a path, a door, a gate, a sidewalk...
Associated with scalable and customizable set of rules, it allows to audit any type of object or service area, according to a multi-disability approach.
- Indirectly for employees with disabilities
- For all corporate actors in the field of disability: disability correspondents, site managers, safety managers ...
For disability stakeholders
- Being able to independently assess the accessibility level of workplaces for a given collaborator, without particular expertise
- Quickly and easily produce an audit report
- Integrating new rules quickly
For employees with disabilities
- The possibility of a recurring audit easy to perform promotes the quality of life at work
- Employees may also express their specific needs or even ask for the creation of new rules
- Allows to better integrate accessibility approach into current practices: evaluating the accessibility of workplaces can be done simply
- Facilitates the opportunity to engage or accomodate a disabled person and solves situations in maintaining the employment of a disabled person
- Beyond Disability such a tool help to improve movements and safety for all employees
Orange decided to open-source Ocara so that all companies, associations and individuals concerned about accessibility, can use this tool and contribute to its development.
Accessibility is a common concern. It is by pooling and sharing our accessibility resources we will go further together. watch the video
A prebuilt apk is provided for your convenience (click on "Raw" to save file) here
To build the application, you need to have a proper installation of the Android SDK. Then the application can be built with Android Studio, or directly on the command line through:
gradlew clean assembleOpensourceDebugWhen launching the application, you arrive on the page Create audit
How to use Ocara is describe here
The description of the json ruleset is here
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Denis Boisset
Alexis Chemin
Ludovic Lelion
Manuel Sanchez