Podcasts about wayfindr

This episode of Grow With Us features Marcela Swenson, the executive director of Tulsa Responds. Tulsa Responds is an amazing resource for Tulsans that provides hands-on assistance for Tulsa small businesses and nonprofits seeking COVID-10 relief funds, and additionally, they help people apply for programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and Internet Subsidy programs. Marcela came to Tulsa with one job that quickly evolved into a running a task force that later became Tulsa Responds, and in this episode, she highlights how this experience was possible through involved and supportive funders, a well-built team that leads with empathy, and the flexibility to pivot and excel as generalists. Through this mission, Tulsa Responds helps get federal money back into the hands of Tulsans and helps them through their current economic pressures, while implementing programs like Wayfindr to provide folks with the opportunity to actualize an uplifting career path. In this episode, Marcela and Evan discuss the origins of Tulsa Responds, how the organization has scaled and continued to serve Tulsans, and how the impact of this work can be seen in the community of Tulsa. If you are interested in looking at our open career opportunities, don't forget to check out our career website: https://careers.intulsa.com/landing-pageAdditionally, join our Talent Network for featured opportunities and tailored outreach from our Talent Partners at: https://intulsadev.com/signup

A UK based nonprofit has created the first internationally recognized standard for accessible audio navigation - helping visually impaired people travel independently, removing barriers to employment and interacting with friends and family. With the number of visually impaired estimated to be 295 million and increasing, Wayfindr saw a lack of accessibility solutions and a lack of consistency which was impacting young people in particular. In order to fix the fragmentation created by different offerings, they created an open standard for indoor navigation (ITU-T F.921). This enables venues, such as a metro station, to create detailed audio navigation instruction with help from Bluetooth Low Energy Beacons. We talk to Tiernan Kenny, Head of Communications, Public Affairs, and Standards at Wayfindr about the advantages and limitations of different indoor location metrics, how their standard can help the visually impaired and beyond, and why all venues should be implementing audio wayfinding today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Things like staircases, escalators and lifts often make navigating indoors difficult for visually impaired people. But what if it was possible for a blind person to step off a train and get from the station’s platform to a coffees shop on the first floor all by themselves? Thanks to Wayfindr, indoor navigation is set to take a turn for the better, especially for visually impaired people. Starting out as a mobile app, Wayfindr is now creating a free and open standard for indoor navigation that everyone from developers to organisations and venues can use to design and provide consistent and user-friendly audio-based navigation in indoor environments. Joining us on this episode of HealthRedesigned is Umesh Pandya, the Co-founder of Wayfindr. He discusses how the award-winning tech nonprofit plans to use navigation technology and effective design to empower visually impaired people to navigate the world independently, even indoors. Listen to this episode on Hanno's website Connect with Wayfindr: Wayfindr’s website Twitter Facebook

Umesh Pandya "Investigate what it would be like for a young vision impaired person, to travel London’s transport network in the near future.” In this lightning talk, Umesh Pandya will share the story behind Wayfindr and how ustwo and the Royal London Society for Blind People designed and validated a system that helps vision impaired people move through the London Underground Network independently. Umesh will talk about the tools, techniques, methodologies they used over the course of this investigation – from concept through to a live pilot over the span of 6 months.