accessway - a more inclusive subway
DESCRIPTION
As featured in AM New York: "An app designed for visually impaired and wheelchair-assisted commuters, it offers assistance for navigating the subway system by incorporating text-to-speech technology. It pulls real-time service status updates from the MTA, and gives information about stations that have elevators." Tim Herrera, 7 May 2013TRANSCRIPT
Over 10% of people ages 16-64 in NYC are living with a disability.
TextAccording to a 2007 study, there are 60,000 legally
blind individuals in New York City and 363,000 with severe visual impairment.
Only 10% of legally blind individuals read Braille.
