{"id":6563,"date":"2021-08-06T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:30:20","slug":"beacons-aid-accessibility-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-aid-accessibility-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons Aid Accessibility in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mohari Hospitality and SH Hotels &amp; Resorts have just opened the re-designed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1hotels.com\/toronto\" target=\"_blank\">1 Hotel Toronto<\/a> as part of downtown Toronto\u2019s urban regeneration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1hoteltoronto.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6564\" width=\"512\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1hoteltoronto.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1hoteltoronto-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1hoteltoronto-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>1 Hotel Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beacons have been placed in the communal indoor and outdoor spaces as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/cnib.ca\/en\/accessible-neighbourhoods?region=on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNIB\u2019s Accessible Neighbourhoods Project<\/a>. The project improves access to city areas by making them more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cnibaccessible-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6565\" width=\"512\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cnibaccessible-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cnibaccessible-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cnibaccessible-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cnibaccessible.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Improving accessibility in Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsquare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlindSquare Beacon Positioning System<\/a> (BPS) broadcasts a unique ID that&#8217;s received by smartphones. The ID is used to look up the information linked to the beacon that&#8217;s presented to the user. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/blindsquare-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2460\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" 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: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>BPS App<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s more detailed information on the BPS in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsquare.com\/user-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">user guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohari Hospitality and SH Hotels &amp; Resorts have just opened the re-designed 1 Hotel Toronto as part of downtown Toronto\u2019s urban regeneration. Beacons have been placed in the communal indoor and outdoor spaces as part of CNIB\u2019s Accessible Neighbourhoods Project. The project improves access to city areas by making them more accessible. The BlindSquare Beacon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/beacons-aid-accessibility-in-toronto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beacons Aid Accessibility in Toronto&#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":[290,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563"}],"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=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6567,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}