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The 2013 convention of the National Federation of the Blind in Orlando
has been registered with Blind Square Event, a free version of the
popular Blind Square navigation app for iOS devices. We hope that it will
help convention attendees navigate the convention area and its
surroundings. More information about this app is below.<br>
<br>
Chris Danielsen, Director of Public Relations<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
<br><br>
BlindSquare Event is a free app that makes use of the latest features
available in smartphones to aid the blind and visually impaired during
special events held by blindness organizations. BlindSquare Event is
available for the iPhone and iPad in the App Store.<br><br>
When you are at an event that has been registered with the developer of
BlindSquare Event and BlindSquare Event has determined your location
using your iOS-device’s GPS capabilities, it will look up information
about your surroundings on Foursquare and Open Street Map. Employing
unique algorithms, it will then ascertain the information most useful to
you and speak it in a clear synthetic voice.<br><br>
You can use BlindSquare Event for example to find a café within a
selected radius or to locate the nearest post office or the library.
Shake your device to hear your current address, as well as information
about the location of the nearest street intersection and venues around
you. Track your destination, so BlindSquare Event will periodically
announce the distance and direction while you are traveling. Simulate
locations to explore their surroundings before you visit them. If you use
BlindSquare Event to mark your position, it can help you to find this
spot again later. BlindSquare Event possesses filters you can set, so you
only hear the information you currently need. Have BlindSquare Event
announce streets and saved places only, so you do not get overwhelmed by
more information than you need. If you mark your saved places and
Foursquare venues as Favorites, BlindSquare Event will always notify you
when you reach them. Since BlindSquare Event saves your favorites and
your places to iCloud, they get synched between all of your iOS-devices,
and you can use BlindSquare Event on all of them.<br><br>
Although you will need VoiceOver to operate the app, BlindSquare Event
uses its own high quality Acapela voices in many different languages to
announce information about your environment. This means you will always
hear all of the information you need, even when you can't touch the
screen of your device, you lock the screen, or you use another app while
BlindSquare Event is running in the background.<br><br>
BlindSquare Event will start working two days before an event begins and
will stop working two days after the event has ended. Its use will be
limited to a radius of 43 miles or 70 kilometers around the location of
the event.<br><br>
You can download BlindSquare Event from the App Store at
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bs-event/id635707709?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">
<b>
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bs-event/id635707709?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4</a>
<br><br>
</b>We recommend that you download and install BlindSquare Event while
you have access to a wifi network as the app is about 90 mb and when you
launch it for the first time, it will download an additional file to
install its high quality speech synthesizer. Since BlindSquare Event does
not include offline maps, you need an active internet connection while
using it.<br><br>
BlindSquare Event provides the same functionality as the paid version of
BlindSquare as long as it is used at the time and location of an event
that has been registered with the developer of BlindSquare and
BlindSquare Event. Therefore you may listen to this one-hour podcast
about BlindSquare to learn more about how to use BlindSquare Event
<a href="http://www.applevis.com/sites/default/files/podcasts/AppleVisPodcast387.mp3_.mp3">
<b>
http://www.applevis.com/sites/default/files/podcasts/AppleVisPodcast387.mp3_.mp3</a>
</b> or read the BlindSquare FAQ at
<a href="http://www.blindsquare.com/faq/"><b>
http://www.blindsquare.com/faq/</a></b>.<br><br>
If you have any questions about BlindSquare event, feel free to write to
<a href="mailto:support@blindsquare.com"><b>support@blindsquare.com</a>
</b> or tweet @BlindSquareGPS.<br>
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Vehicle Donations Take the Blind Further. Donate your car to the National
Federation of the Blind today! For more information, please visit
<a href="http://www.carshelpingtheblind.org">
www.carshelpingtheblind.org</a> or call 1-855-659-9314<br>
<br>
Christopher S. Danielsen, J.D.<br>
Director of Public Relations<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
200 East Wells Street<br>
Baltimore, MD 21230<br>
Office: (410) 659-9314, extension 2330<br>
Mobile: (410) 262-1281<br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:cdanielsen@nfb.org">cdanielsen@nfb.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.nfb.org/" eudora="autourl">www.nfb.org<br>
</a> <br>
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