Hello Mark,
I don't think there is much point in making a big deal out of the fact that the Seeing Eye app is designed with the blind user in mind and has features which may not be of much value to a sighted person. If a sighted person comes up to an intersection they do not need their GPS app to tell them that the intersection is a 3-way or 4-way intersection or other information which a sighted person can confirm with one glance. Sendero states the following: The Seeing Eye and Sendero Group have teamed up to provide a fully accessible turn-by-turn GPS iPhone app with all the normal navigation features plus features unique to blind users. I think the important parts here are "accessible", "normal navigation features" and "features unique to blind users". There is no doubt that a blind user requires more spoken information from a GPS solution which is exactly the reason why so many of us are not using apps like Navigon exclusively. Navigon displays a map and gives some voice feedback. It's perfectly adequate for a sighted person, but most blind users supplement an app like Navigon with other apps like Ariadne or Sendero LookAround to get additional information. From the description of the new app I have a feeling that apps like Sendero LookAround or Ariadne will no longer be required or maybe rarely required because the Seeing Eye app will combine the "normal navigation" features one would expect from an app like Navigon with the "unique features" a blind person needs and which so far have not been very available because even using Ariadne together with Navigon was not as good a solution as, for example, the Trekker or MobileGeo was. I am quite optimistic that an app like Seeing Eye combined with the accessibility and what's more important the stability of the iOS platform will indeed be the answer/solution we all have been waiting for. Let's just all wait what the price will be, but I doubt it will be so low that sighted people in great numbers would buy it instead f less expensive apps like Navigon or even free ones like Google Maps or the native Maps app which for many people are perfectly sufficient. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
