{"id":2459,"date":"2018-06-01T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:30:00","slug":"blindsquare-and-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/blindsquare-and-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"BlindSquare and Beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindsquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BlindSquare<\/a> is a popular accessible GPS application developed for the blind and visually impaired. It describes the environment, announces points of interest and street intersections. BlindSquare also works with iBeacons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2460 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An example of use of BlindSquare with beacons is <a href=\"https:\/\/tendaily.com.au\/news\/australia\/a180514ueb\/guide-dogs-and-melbourne-zoo-harness-technology-to-increase-accessibility-20180517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melbourne Zoo<\/a> that allows people with visual impairments to get to parts of the zoo that are out of bounds to guide dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlindSquare is a popular accessible GPS application developed for the blind and visually impaired. It describes the environment, announces points of interest and street intersections. BlindSquare also works with iBeacons. An example of use of BlindSquare with beacons is Melbourne Zoo that allows people with visual impairments to get to parts of the zoo that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/blindsquare-and-beacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BlindSquare and Beacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,197,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}