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AFB ACCESSWORLD ®
Technology and People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
 May 2009 Issue  Volume 10  Number 3
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the author and an AFB TECH intern compare a print map with Wayfinder's directions. Navigating by Phone: A Review of Wayfinder Access GPS and Mobile Geo, Part 1
Accessible Global Positioning Systems (GPS) have shrunk in size and price. First there was a laptop, then PDAs, and now cell phones. In the first of a two-part series, we evaluate one of the two GPS products now available on a cell phone.
— Darren Burton


In This Issue


Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor


Product Evaluation

Navigating by Phone: A Review of Wayfinder Access GPS and Mobile Geo, Part 1
We evaluate Wayfinder Access, one of two cell phone-based GPS programs—Daren Burton

Conference Report

CSUN 2009
This year, the focus was on new GPS systems, DAISY book/MP3 players and CCTVs—Deborah Kendrick and Jay Leventhal

Access Issues

Accessible Pedestrian Signals: San Francisco Sets an Example
Structured negotiations bring safer travel to blind pedestrians—Lainey Feingold and Jessie Lorenz

Survey Results
We report the results of the latest AccessWorld Extra survey—Compiled by Jay Leventhal

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