Re: New topic: Accessibility of QR codes and Accessible Wayfinding solutions

Hello all,

Recently, I have developed a new mobile app on accessibility rating for
venues titlted Human Access (http://ha.cnt.gr). I hate to say that after
January many other things got most of my time so I could not improve it
furthermore... but I still consider it as a work in progress. From some
research I have done during the first months of launch (in retrospect... I
discovered I should have done this before lunch) I discovered that there
were a number of similar apps and portals out there.

Just mention a few...
http://www.axsmap.com/
http://ableroad.com/
http://www.jaccede.com/
http://wheelmap.org/en/
http://www.rollout.gr/

I managed (with Shadi's aid) to link and talk to most of them (at least the
Europe based ones) and one common problem I Identified is that everyone is
thinking of such rating from their own perspective, using their own
attributes and metrics. So, there is a huge ammount of info out there
scattered into different attributes databases etc. Fragmentation! There are
also a number of other problems and questions in that area so... I thought
it might be a good idea to add it as a topic. Went in the wiki and searched
for "maps for accessibility" and to my surprise I see that Klauss has
already drafted a similar topic which is not liested in the main page
(Location based AT).

https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Location_Based_AT

Seeing Vivienne's email about accessible wayfinding I thought that this is
actually an aspect among the various issues and questions for the genera
domain of location based AT or maps for accessibility or however we want to
call it.

So in the next days I could try to update the already existing topic, link
it with the main page and add myself to the volunteers for organising a
discussion on it. I just don't know if this is something I can do within
the next month.

Regards,
Christos.


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Dr. Christos Kouroupetroglou
Web Accessibility Research & Engineering
Website: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~kourou/
Blog: http://a11y2020.wordpress.com/


2014-05-19 10:28 GMT+03:00 Peter <peterdev001@gmail.com>:

> Hi Vivienne,
>
> I have no idea :) but am really interested in what you discover from
> this!! Suspect their are similar cases out there.
>
> cheers,
> +pt
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 19 May 2014, at 07:28, "WebKeyIT" <v.conway@webkeyit.com> wrote:
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> Hi all
>
>
>
> I received an interesting email today and thought it might be a good
> discussion point:
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>
> Here’s the body of the email:
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> Specifically, we are developing a digital wayfinding solution, and are
> looking at using google maps to supplement it, and potentially Q codes. And
> we would like to use these on our website as well as on the wayfinding
> screens at the hospital.
>
>
>
> Hoping you can help answer some questions:
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>
>
> 1.         You mentioned that you would look into whether or not Q codes
> passed the accessibility standards – have you found anything out yet?
>
> 2.         We are trying to see how we can make our digital wayfinding
> solution in the hospital as accessible as possible but realise we don’t
> know some basics like, for example, how a blind or visually impaired person
> would normally find a wayfinding kiosk.  We can’t find any answers on
> google at the moment.
>
> a.         Is there a standard we can follow to alert a person to the
> location of a wayfinding kiosk i.e. a universal beeping signal that anyone
> with a visual impairment recognises as an information kiosk?
>
> b.         Do most people with visual impairments carry mobile phone with
> apps that can act as screen readers (we noticed these exist) working via
> blue tooth, and is it sufficient to cater to this by building in something
> that interacts with such an app? Or do we need to approach it from the
> stand point that users may not have a mobile phone. I guess what is the
> acceptable standard in this case.
>
> c.         From reading through the WCAG requirements, it seems
> accessibility only applies to websites (including intranets and extranets)
> but not to apps nor digital signage – is this accurate? This is the
> impression that the developers are getting so if unable to come up with a
> viable solution with google maps on the website, they may simply not have
> that on the website, but offer it as an app on the digital wayfinding kiosk
> or solution offered.
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> While I think it would be an interesting future webinar, I’m trying to get
> some interim information for this new hospital being built here in WA. From
> what I’ve seen, they are using some really advanced technological solutions
> in their designs, equipment etc. and obviously want their communications to
> echo the same.
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> If any of you can point me to some resources to assist, it would be much
> appreciated as I haven’t seen much in the accessibility sphere on this
> topic.
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>
>
> *Regards,*
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>
> *Vivienne Conway, B.IT <http://B.IT> (Hons), MACS CT, AALIA(CS)*
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> Director
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