A GPS app that helps individuals with imaginative and prescient impairment has been launched within the City of Essex.
Municipal officers launched the BlindSquare app at Colchester Harbour and Seashore Friday morning with an purpose of enhancing accessibility.
“We would like everybody to really feel included with our properties and realizing that it is a enormous vacationer vacation spot through the summer time season we needed to verify individuals have that potential to come back out and revel in this water entrance,” mentioned Director of Group Providers for the City of Essex Jake Morassut.
“That is an app that’s geotagged for the whole lot,” Morassut mentioned. “We labored with the CINB to search out out what apps could be good for one thing like this and so they advisable BlindSquare.”
Developed in collaboration with the Accessibility Advisory Committee and made attainable by means of $8000 in funding from the Ontario Inclusive Communities Grant, the modern navigational help device makes use of GIS directional navigation know-how to help people with imaginative and prescient impairment, providing enhanced steerage and accessibility throughout the Colchester Harbour, Seashore, and Park areas.
Morassut mentioned there was suggestions from residents to create extra accessibility in municipal parks, with Colchester Seashore and Harbour being a well-liked spot with locals and vacationers alike.
“We’re going to collect the metrics and see what it’s like,” he mentioned. “Hopefully it takes off and there’s quite a lot of assist for it. We all know that the assist is there and it’s been profitable to this point so hopefully it’s one thing that’s utilized and we’re going to discover extra properties right here on the municipality.”
Morassut famous the app has a variety from County Street 50 all the way down to the harbour and seashore space, together with the park and parking heaps.
A GPS app that helps individuals with imaginative and prescient impairment has been launched within the City of Essex.
Municipal officers launched the BlindSquare app at Colchester Harbour and Seashore Friday morning with an purpose of enhancing accessibility.
“We would like everybody to really feel included with our properties and realizing that it is a enormous vacationer vacation spot through the summer time season we needed to verify individuals have that potential to come back out and revel in this water entrance,” mentioned Director of Group Providers for the City of Essex Jake Morassut.
“That is an app that’s geotagged for the whole lot,” Morassut mentioned. “We labored with the CINB to search out out what apps could be good for one thing like this and so they advisable BlindSquare.”
Developed in collaboration with the Accessibility Advisory Committee and made attainable by means of $8000 in funding from the Ontario Inclusive Communities Grant, the modern navigational help device makes use of GIS directional navigation know-how to help people with imaginative and prescient impairment, providing enhanced steerage and accessibility throughout the Colchester Harbour, Seashore, and Park areas.
Morassut mentioned there was suggestions from residents to create extra accessibility in municipal parks, with Colchester Seashore and Harbour being a well-liked spot with locals and vacationers alike.
“We’re going to collect the metrics and see what it’s like,” he mentioned. “Hopefully it takes off and there’s quite a lot of assist for it. We all know that the assist is there and it’s been profitable to this point so hopefully it’s one thing that’s utilized and we’re going to discover extra properties right here on the municipality.”
Morassut famous the app has a variety from County Street 50 all the way down to the harbour and seashore space, together with the park and parking heaps.
