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Monday 22 April 2013

PLEASE CAN YOU HELP Us?

 Those of you who live in the UK, I need your help.

Navigon is a gps application for the phone and it's incredibly useful
for blind people. Using the enhanced voice, you can set up a route and
hear street names as you progress along that route, enabling you to find
places even in relatively unfamiliar surroundings. But for all its
brilliance, it has a fault and we need you to act to help us change the
application.

The problem occurs when you are on a route and make a wrong turn. This
can happen if there are two right turns close together, for example, or
if the road forks and you take the wrong fork. The application will
brilliantly re-calculate a route if possible or tell you to turn round
if not. You can also get a street name so it is possible to work out if
you have gone wrong, but only after some interaction with the
application. Such situations would be massively improved if the
application gave you a beep following the correct execution of a turn,
etc. This should be perfectly possible as the application does give a
visual indication.

This really minor change would make the application so much more useful
but they are only likely to make it if they hear from a number of people
as this is how development requests are prioritised.

Please help blind users to get more information out of this application
by emailing
support.uk@garmin.com

with the following.

"I am writing to request that an audio alert is added to clearly
indicate when the correct instruction has been executed on a route.
This will be of enormous benefit to blind people using your product and
will provide added functionality for those in an eye busy environment
when it is difficult to check the screen for information. The audio
alert should be enabled/disabled in settings."

Thank you for your help and please share this with others.

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