The 2GIS mapping service has updated its mobile application for iOS, allowing visually impaired users to use it using voice commands. socialbites.ca was told about this by the press service of the 2GIS company.
2GIS started working fully in VoiceOver mode – the function built into iOS reads the screen and speaks the application interface, and the user can interact with it using gestures and voice commands. As a result, the most popular functions of the 2GIS application on iOS have become accessible to the visually impaired: for example, you can find a place, get up-to-date information about that place, call a contact number, create a route, understand which means of transport operate and at which stop you will get off .
“We are developing technologies for different active audiences and have significantly improved the application to make it easier and more convenient for visually impaired people to find and reach the right places and organizations,” said Alexander Syrkov, Head of Product Development. 2GIS users.
According to him, previously the most advanced solutions for visually impaired users were foreign map services, but now 2GIS can completely replace them in this area – now on iOS, in the future – on Android phones.
You can turn on VoiceOver from the Accessibility menu in iPhone settings. You also don’t need to enable anything in 2GIS settings; The service is ready to work with the voice interface by default. An updated version of 2GIS with VoiceOver support is already available on the App Store.
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Source: Gazeta
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