Perkins School wants to ensure blind and low-vision people don't miss the bus
From: Evaluation Engineering - 04/18/2016
By: Rick Nelson

The Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA, has received a $750,000
grant from Google.org to help make sure blind and low-vision people don't
miss the bus, according to Kristin Toussaint at Boston.com.

She quotes Joann Becker, a technology specialist at the Perkins accessibility
and training division, as saying, "GPS on my smartphone gives me approximate
information of where I am, and it doesn't give me any information about
physical bus stop locations. I feel a pole with my cane, I think it's a bus
stop, but it turns out it isn’t. There's no way as a blind person to be able
to identify physical bus stops."

In a video posted at Boston.com, Bill Oats, a vice president at Perkins, says
the goal is to use micronavigation, as opposed to wayfinding and GPS, to get
you the last 25 or 30 feet to your destination.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.evaluationengineering.com/2016/04/18/perkins-school-wants-ensure-blind-low-vision-people-dont-miss-bus

Links:
The Perkins School got a $750,000 Google grant to change how blind people
  take the bus (with video 2:15)
http://www.boston.com/culture/lifestyle/2016/04/14/perkins-school-for-the-blind-google-grant-to-change-how-blind-people-take-the-bus

Bus Stop Challenge
http://www.perkins.org/solutions/featured-products/bus-stop-challenge