[Mi-abs] Improved Accessible Pedestrian Signals for Visually-Impaired Users

[Taylor Arndt]

That would be awesome

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> On Dec 14, 2016, at 12:00 PM, Navdeep Bagga via Mi-abs <mi-abs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My name is Navdeep and I am a master’s student at the University of
> Michigan School of Information. I am writing a paper on improved accessible
> pedestrian signals for blind and visually-impaired users. The current
> implementation, the Accessible Pedestrian Signal or APS (
> http://www.apsguide.org), is expensive and scarce across cities in the US.
> I am proposing a solution which involves installing bluetooth beacons on
> existing pedestrian signals (not just the APS) which can convey the status
> of the signal to the user on their smartphone which is bluetooth enabled
> and has the necessary app installed to listen to the bluetooth beacons. I
> am assuming that users are comfortable using screen readers on their
> smartphones.
> 
> I am writing to request people to answer the questions below or just have a
> discussion with me on this topic:
> 
>   1. Do you have any frustrations with APS?
>   2. What are your views about the desirability of the wireless status
>   system using a smartphone?
>   3. Do you have any concerns about the proposed solution?
> 
> Please reach out to me off list via email (navdeepb at umich.edu). Thank you!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Navdeep Singh Bagga
> navdeepb at umich.edu
> School of Information | Class of 2018
> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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