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Navigating the Pros and Cons of Floating Bus Stop Design

Floating Bus Stops: An Exploration Editor’s Note: In this post, we delve into the advantages and challenges of Floating Bus Stops, considering their impact on accessibility and drawing from my personal experience as an individual with a disability. To begin, let’s clarify what a Floating Bus Stop entails: it’s a design solution that incorporates a […]

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Gateway Navigation’s Inclusive Design Community

Creating an Inclusive World: Editor’s Note: Blog Post follows this time-sensitive volunteer opportunity for individuals who are blind or partially sighted and are involved in monitoring or trading in the stock market. Posted on July 14, 2023. My name is Jano Fu, a Master’s student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill […]

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Review: Goodmaps Explore Indoor Navigation App

Enhancing Independent Indoor Travel for People with Vision Loss For people who are blind or low vision, navigating unfamiliar or complex indoor spaces can be a challenging task. However, over the last few years, there has been an emergence of location-based indoor wayfinding technology that has the potential to revolutionize how people with vision loss […]

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Accessible Digital Wayfinding

Making Complicated Transit Hubs Easier to Navigate In our role  as a social impact company. Gateway Navigation CCC Ltd. has been promoting the technology of accessible digital augmented reality (AR) wayfinding since 2017. Which is why we are so excited with the ground-breaking work being implemented by tech start up companies, Waymap, Accessibuild and Goodmaps. […]