AccessSound

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the R2D2 Center has released the AccessRatings for Buildings MiniTools apps that include AccessRuler, AccessSlope and AccessSound. AccessRuler can be downloaded on iPhones or iPads. AccessSound is an app that measures the decibel (dB) level in any room to provide the audio level accessibility. There are 3 sound levels to choose from: quiet, moderate, and loud activity. The measurement is taken on a steady surface to avoid interference and results are presented in two different graphs. The first is an x-y bar graph that illustrates the dB levels recorded over the fifteen samples taken throughout the sample time. The second graph shows the median, maximum, and minimum dB levels taken during the measurement, in comparison to common environmental sounds, in order to indicate the noise level. Users can also add comments to their measurement and save it to a list within the app. Access Sound can store up to 50 measurements and at any point these can be exported into a spread sheet, through email.