GPS-enabled app helps the blind take the bus

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Like the rest of us, the blind can use speaking navigation apps to find their way around the city. A new Android application developed at Spain’s Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, however, is designed specifically to help blind people get to their destination by bus. Appropriately named OnTheBus, the app could also be used by the deaf, the cognitively-impaired, or anyone else. .. Continue Reading GPS-enabled app helps the blind take the bus

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: App, Blind, Bus, Navigation, Smartphone, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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