Lazarillo GPS for Blind

Lazarillo lets you explore the world around you and set up routes , get specific address and find places such as coffee shops, museums, hospitals, etc. Lazarillo is a specialized GPS app that brings mobility tools for the blind. It was designed and implemented with support of blind people. This app allows you to use its accessibility functions for free, just requires a few amount of cellular data or Wi-fi connection. To collaborate with blind people, Lazarillo principal feature is to be beside the user providing essential information that allows displacement and autonomy. The goal is to help the person to reach the chosen place in a simple way, receiving Lazarillo indications by voice and notifications of nearby places, institutions, shops, etc, allowing communication between the user and the city. The app contains the following features: Exploration: Provides your actual position, nearby places, and street intersections while you are scrolling. Category searches: Allows to find nearby places from a specific category such as banks, health, food, shop, art, entertainment, etc. Specific searches: Allows to find a route to any place using voice or keyboard. Help information: Lazarillo provides information about establishments that work with blind. The app is related to a web platform where the institutions will be able to show important information about events, courses, workshops, and any data that a blind person may need. In that way Lazarillo collaborates with these institutions expanding the communication to user reaching better connectivity between people with visual disability. Lazarillo also is able to guide people inside places that have our indoor navigation service. Through the installation of this system inside buildings or close spaces that require universal accessibility, Lazarillo will send specific information from these spaces answering to the user about their specific need. On the exploration mode the blind person can obtain general information of the place and choose the action to do. For suggestions and doubts you can visit our web site www.lazarillo.cl or send us an e-mail to app@lazarillo.cl