The new feature makes navigating new places easier and safer for people with visual impairments. | afp
For the more than 250 million people worldwide that are either blind or have moderate-to-severe vision impairments, navigation directions consisting of simple commands like “turn left at the intersection” are insufficient.
Wakana Sugiyama, a legally blind business analyst living in Tokyo, Japan describes her day-to-day struggle of traveling to new places with nothing but meager directions to guide her: “In some cases, I’ll have a friend to join me on a trip, but in others I may decide not to take the journey at all.”FEATURED STORIES
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