{"id":7564,"date":"2022-05-09T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:43:18","slug":"bluetooth-aiding-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-aiding-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Aiding Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We recently came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.right-hear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RightHear<\/a>, an app that assists people with orientation difficulties or vision impairments. It provides navigation information in indoor and outdoor settings.<\/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\/2022\/04\/righthearapp.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7565\" width=\"293\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/righthearapp.png 390w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/righthearapp-191x300.png 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 85vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The app acts as a virtual directory for users, directing them through locations with audio cues (such as \u2018reception is 20 feet ahead to the left\u2019 or \u2018exit is 50 feet ahead\u2019). Users can point their phone in a specific direction to learn what\u2019s in front of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For companies, the app improves accessibility compliance, aids corporate responsibility and improves a brand&#8217;s narrative regarding inclusion. It works using Bluetooth beacons that are picked up by the app. The app creates auditory descriptions and notifications. There&#8217;s also a dashboard for companies\/admin to control and track the solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/allbeacons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Bluetooth Beacons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently came across RightHear, an app that assists people with orientation difficulties or vision impairments. It provides navigation information in indoor and outdoor settings. The app acts as a virtual directory for users, directing them through locations with audio cues (such as \u2018reception is 20 feet ahead to the left\u2019 or \u2018exit is 50 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-aiding-accessibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth Aiding Accessibility&#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":[290,93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564"}],"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=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7568,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}