Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is EasyWriter. The main feature of EasyWriter, as its programmers put it, is:

EasyWriter makes it easy to write emails using a bigger keyboard in landscape mode.

Easywriter has one other accessibility feature that the default Mail program lacks; multitouch zoom. Between landscape mode and the zoom, Easywriter becomes a much more accessible way to type emails than Apple’s offering. The last bit of good news is that it is free!

EasyWriter iPhone App

Like all the email-capable apps, sending the email requires the app to hand control back to the default Mail program. There you need to fill in the To and Subject lines and click send. All in all, it is a fairly painless process.

What is EasyWriter missing? First, there is no way to ajust the color scheme. Light fonts on a dark background are much easier on the eyes. Second, there is a fairly restrictive limit to how much you can zoom in. More zoom would be very nice. Even nicer would be even more control over font type and default size. Unless EasyWriter adpots some of these additional fearues, I would guess its feature set, landscape mode and miltitouch zoom,  will soon be subsumed into the default Mail program.

EasyWriter is available on the iPhone ofr through the iTunes App Store. Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here.

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