Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders: A Train Station Navigation Assistant
Markus Guentert · 2011 · The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)
This short paper presents a prototype iPhone application designed to help blind people navigate inside train stations — an environment where GPS is unavailable and orientation is particularly challenging. The author's motivation comes from interviews with blind users and a…
blindness · indoor navigation · public transit · iPhone · wayfinding