[Accessibility] Audio-tactile maps on smart phones

[Mathieu Simonnet]

> Hi,
>
> We just launch geotablet project (http://sites.google.com/site/geotablet/).
> The result we will obtain should answer your needs (I hope so [?]). May be
> you could be a tester ?
> The way we work is to use the haptimap framework (http://haptimap.org/)
> in our own application. However starting from navit source code could also
> be a good idea.
> It is the very beginning of the project, every idea interest us.
> Thanks for information about "AccessiblityNodeINfo"
> Keep in touch.
>
> Mathieu Simonnet
> TELECOM BRETAGNE / Département LUSSI
> UMR CNRS 3192 / Lab-STICC
> Tel : 02 29 00 12 74
> Cell : 06 82 00 24 06
> Mail : mathieu.simonnet at telecom-bretagne.eu
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>
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:31, Nolan Darilek <nolan at thewordnerd.info>wrote:
>
>> It occurs to me that this should be fairly easily done on Android 4.0
>> using its new accessibility APIs, and maybe without any custom plugins for
>> the nav apps.
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/**reference/android/view/**accessibility/**
>> AccessibilityNodeInfo.html<http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeInfo.html>
>>
>> The key would be making the map view export itself as a hierarchy of
>> AccessibilityNodeInfo objects. One challenge would be dividing all map
>> features, even things like curving roads, into a series of rectangles. You
>> would then create an AccessibilityNodeInfo for each of these rectangles and
>> set a meaningful content description via setContentDescription().
>>
>> There might need to be a bit of support on the screen reader side, but
>> the result would be a map that works both visually and accessibly.
>>
>> No time to work on such a project myself, but I'm happy to provide
>> whatever screen reader support I can in Spiel. This would be a neat project.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/12/2011 04:17 AM, robert wrote:
>>
>>> Audio-tactile maps on smart phones
>>>
>>> I would like to have an OSM map accessible for visually impaired users
>>> with a program that makes sounds when you move your finger over the map.
>>> A different sound for the different map items (roads, water and
>>> buildings) and that speaks the names on the map. By moving your finger
>>> over the map  you know what is where on the map.
>>> You know where your finger is on the device and you hear what is under
>>> your finger so you can make an image in your mind what is where.
>>>
>>> If the map is centered around you (with GPS) you can find out what is
>>> around you and where to go.
>>>
>>> You would not need special hardware, just a smart phone with gps and
>>> touchscreen and one that knows its orientation.
>>> By adapting one of the open source  programs that use OSM maps (like
>>> Navit) you would not need to completely write a navigation and map
>>> viewing program. You would just need to develop a plugin/module for such
>>> a program to satisfy our needs.
>>>
>>> I have also posted the idea in the Navit forum  on sourceforge.net
>>> http://sourceforge.net/**projects/navit/forums/forum/**512959<http://sourceforge.net/projects/navit/forums/forum/512959>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have ideas about  how to organize and program (write the
>>> code) this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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