{"id":2683,"date":"2016-12-06T18:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:38:56","slug":"nav-apps-for-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2016\/12\/06\/nav-apps-for-visually-impaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigation Apps for visually impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2689\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge speaking with Guinan at the Enterprise bar Ten Forward\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan-1024x473.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan-130x60.jpg 130w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/whoopeJordan.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I struck up a conversation with a fellow conference attendee at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahead.org\/\">AHEAD 2016 conference<\/a>\u00a0who happened to be blind. \u00a0We had an interesting conversation about getting around when you are visually impaired and he shared three apps he uses to navigate inside and outside buildings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ski.org\/news\/smith-kettlewell-announces-new-wayfinding-app-blind-and-visually-impaired-travelers\" target=\"_blank\">overTHERE<\/a> which uses a infrared technology developed more than 30 years ago to help with safer street crossing and recently adapted for mapping<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blindsquare.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlindSquare<\/a> which can work with beacons to provide mapping inside buildings<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/all-access-talking-menus-more\/id633106012?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D8\" target=\"_blank\">AllAccess<\/a> which can access menus, logos,\u00a0 and QR codes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I struck up a conversation with a fellow conference attendee at the AHEAD 2016 conference\u00a0who happened to be blind. \u00a0We had an interesting conversation about getting around when you are visually impaired and he shared three apps he uses to navigate inside and outside buildings: overTHERE which uses a infrared technology developed more than 30 years ago to help with safer street crossing and recently adapted for mapping BlindSquare which can work with beacons to provide mapping inside buildings AllAccess which can access menus, logos,\u00a0 and QR codes <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2016\/12\/06\/nav-apps-for-visually-impaired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigation Apps for visually impaired<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,122,115],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-mobile-devices","category-people","tag-free-software","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-Hh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}