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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