Getting Started

Every journey through Tech Assistant begins here. This opening chapter is your orientation: the handful of screens and gestures you'll return to daily, long after the rest of the app has become second nature. Nothing about it assumes you can see the layout, and nothing about it rushes you past a step just because a sighted designer thought it was obvious.

You'll start at the Welcome screen, where signing in and creating an account sit side by side as clearly labeled buttons, alongside a browser-based sign-in and a direct line to human help if anything goes sideways before you're even logged in. From there, registration is a short, honestly-worded form: your name, your email, a password with a spoken show-or-hide toggle, and a plain acknowledgement of the Terms and Privacy Policy, both readable in-app without ever leaving the sign-up screen.

Once you're in, the Home screen becomes your daily anchor. It greets you by name and time of day, reads out the weather without demanding you decode a chart, and surfaces a search box that can locate any of the app's ninety-plus tools by typing just a few letters. Below that, a scrollable list of shortcuts puts your tools in an order you control, not one Tech Assistant decided for you.

Five tabs anchor the bottom of every screen you'll ever open: Home, a Quick Launch tab you personalize, News, Articles, and More. The Quick Launch tab deserves special attention because it's the app's signature idea — a single, instant doorway to whichever tool or tools matter most to your day, configured once and then simply trusted.

By the end of this chapter, you'll be able to sign in without hesitation, find your bearings on Home purely by ear, reorder your shortcuts to match how you actually work, and jump into any of the app's tools in two taps or fewer. Take it slowly the first time; every gesture described here has been built and checked with a screen reader running.

Explore

Welcome & Creating an Account

The first time you open Tech Assistant, you'll land on the Welcome screen with options to sign in or create a new account. Creating an account takes less than a minute and lets your notes, settings, and saved items sync across devices. This section covers filling in the sign-up form, agreeing to the Terms and Privacy Policy, and what happens right after you register.

Signing In

If you already have an account, signing in gets you straight to your personalized Home screen. You can sign in with your email and password or use Google Sign-In for a faster, one-tap experience. This section also explains how to recover your account if you've forgotten your password.

Touring the Home Screen

The Home screen is your daily starting point, greeting you with the date, a spoken-friendly weather card, and any pending notifications. Below that sits a search bar that can find any of the app's 90-plus tools by name, and a scrollable list of tool shortcuts. This section explains every element on the screen and how it's announced by your screen reader.

Navigating with the Bottom Tabs

Five tabs anchor the bottom of every screen: Home, your customizable Quick Launch tab, News, Articles, and More. Each tab is labeled for accessibility so a swipe and double-tap is all it takes to jump between them. This section describes what lives in each tab, including the account and settings menu tucked into the header.

Setting Up Your Quick Launch Tab

The Quick Launch tab is the app's signature shortcut: in Solo mode, tapping it jumps straight into one tool of your choosing, such as Talking Camera, with no extra taps. In Multi mode, it instead opens a small personal dashboard of several tools under a label you choose. This section shows you how to switch between the two modes and pick your default tool or tool list.

Reordering Your Tool Shortcuts

Your Home screen shortcut list isn't fixed — you can long-press and drag any tool to reorder it, moving the features you use most to the top. The new order is saved automatically and stays that way until you change it again. This section explains the reordering gesture and how it behaves with a screen reader active.

Searching for a Tool

With more than ninety tools in the app, the search bar on the Home screen is often the fastest way to get where you're going. Typing part of a tool's name, such as "pdf" or "compass," instantly filters the list and announces the results. This section covers search tips and how matches are read aloud.