Showing them a Path! – An accessibility meet up with visually impaired

[IlankovanT]

Thank you for your kind words @TraciC

"How Local Guides can help millions in September" - this is the first post inspired me to start looking for some new ways to support them.

I have to say BIG thanks to @TraciC for initiating this topic 🙂

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@TraciC wrote:

Another fantastic meet-up, @IlankovanT and the focus on accessibility is always a favorite of mine, you know! Thank you for hosting and sharing back with us!

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[IlankovanT]

Thank you for the Kind words @AkmalB, @carriedeps, @Garg_Saab, @AIMAN_SAEED, @Udithakw, @LucioV, @koushik_sarkar, @KashifMisidia, @bhasibahuleyan

Akmal Saturday you will see a tree with your name 🙂

Lucio, thanks for the suggestion. I'm sure you will like this stick, these days I'm doing some testing and improving the stick.

I'm going to name this as iStick 🙂 🙂 

[bhasibahuleyan]

I wish you score a century meet-up in 2018.

Congratulations @IlankovanT

[vvbellur]

@IlankovanT, you are an inspiring human being. I am so proud that our community has people like you who go out of their way to help.  I too had tears in my eyes when i watched the video.

Keep shining. You raise our Local Guides' flag high!

God bless you buddy!

[AkmalB]

Oh really, thanks @IlankovanT

Have a nice day

[NareshDarji]

That's a great @IlankovanT 

I'm always inspired by you and your great effort. This year I'm lucky to meet you in connect live at San Francisco. 

[Venance]

You did a great job on connect @IlankovanT

[KashifMisidia]

@IlankovanT I wish that I can see a tree with my name too. ✌

[Phunky]

@IlankovanT hey, thanks for sharing that. There's a lot of product ideas which will can help visually impaired and all users. 

In my city, Barcelona there are GPS blind spots in the centre of town.

With no GPS you note when the blue ball jumps. This means, no matter if your map is updated, you can get still get lost.

.I've an idea but there's obvious privacy concerns. If a location is known on another device or their trajectory is known, it sends a more certain location to a user whose GPS isn't connecting but the other is.

This can also help with all enabled devices, including car GPSes. Now a clever idea is knowing if a location has an entrance or exit only. This can be frustrating for my partially sighted friends. By trajectories being passively tracked google maps could suggest what it believes are one way exits and entrances and suggest these as solutions. 

What does the community think?

[IlankovanT]

Thank you for your kind words @vvbellur, @Venance 🙂

@Phunky thanks for the suggestions 🙂

@bhasibahuleyan yes I hope I will make it 🙂