https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=1077 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:44:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-65609 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:44:52 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=1077#comment-65609 I don’t know how a BrailleNote GPS looks like, but I sure hope that for that price the visually impaired are getting a device that’s easy to use too. Because using technology is great, but it’s often difficult to find a device that doesn’t require navigating through complicated menu systems. How many cell phones today have different tones for every key? Of course, the blind can manage without tones too, but it would sure simplify things and make dialing faster if such features were available. How about the rest of the menus? Aren’t they getting more and more complicated?
As for the obstacles that no GPS in the world at this point can worn you about.. I’d add holes and open sewers as the greatest dangers (we don’t get much of these in Canada, but elsewere, there are plenty).
So what are the blind to do for now? Keep using the canes and guide dogs and hope for some future advances in technology that will bring them a little bit of independence and that is also affordable, easy to use and reliable.

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