Wayfindr
Empowering Vision Impaired People to Navigate the World Independently
Abstract
Blind and vision impaired people face significant challenges to independent navigation, one of the main factors making them more likely to face poverty, unemployment, and social isolation. Wayfindr, a joint venture between the Royal Society for Blind Children and UsTwo has created the world’s first internationally- recognized standard for accessible audio navigation aiming to help the world’s 285 million vision impaired people navigate the world independently. Wayfindr shows how nonprofits can promote the use of emerging technologies for social innovations and deliver for end users at scale without having to engage in expensive and resource-consuming development of proprietary technology.
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