EVA

 Week 11:  We built an extension that can compose the subject and body of an email through voice. The user will have to use " line break " command to differentiate between subject and body  The colors were optimized to comfort the users with color blindness as well. As per our research most color blind users have a hard time recognizing between red, blue and green. So we decided to use shades of green and blue. Presently the UI consists of a gradient background colors of green and blue which should be comforting to all users.  All of these are presently baked into the popup UI of our extension and in the next week we will be looking into the webpage operations through voice.   Week 12: This week was one hell of a ride. We could give a voice output of the details of a specific email. All of these are achieved through voice commands which are required to be specified by the user. We have added these following commands : "read one", "read second", "read ...

 Week 10(14/06/2021) We integrated the UI with the part that was running on localhost which was retrieving emails and deployed it on replit. We also added a few voice commands such that total mail count and unread mail count is given as a voice output. We did research on colors such that someone with color blindness would also be able to use our interface easily and differentiate elements   So far we have a UI which can be comforting to color blind users, retrieval of 10 emails from the user's inbox and a voice output of unread emails count of the user.  Challenges: When a voice command is given the output is repeated twice and we are finding it a bit challenging while getting voice outputs of retrieved emails.

 Week 09(07/06/21): We found some challenges in regards to calling multiple Gmail APIs directly in an extension, so for now we have resorted to using a localhost server to call these APIs and run all the important functionality of our project on it till we figure out how we can resort to calling multiple APIs in the extension. We also made a mock-up UI of our prototype which has a simple layout. One of the main intention of this UI is to make the extension screen-reader friendly as well. We were able to create a compose window using Gmail API from which mails can be sent, further all of it will be revamped with the UI and will see how we can go further from there We will be testing out a few test cases in the coming weeks like: Checking how to access user created folder in gmail. To find a solution as to where the contents of the mail can be stored if the user loses internet connection before sending the mail.