[Athen] Accessible GPS Bus Tracking Software

Madeleine Rothberg madeleine_rothberg at wgbh.org
Tue Aug 13 10:14:17 PDT 2013


Hi Lisa,

As part of a project on transit communications for people with disabilities at the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, we did an analysis of a number of transit apps to see how screen reader-friendly they are. Our results are available from the project web page:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/experience_learn/media_home_work/ncat

The analysis is directly downloadable at:
http://ncam.wgbh.org/file_download/152

You might want to look at NextBus. Some of their clients are universities, and their web-based bus tracker is quite accessible.
http://www.nextbus.com/homepage/

-Madeleine

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Madeleine Rothberg
Project Director
Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH
http://ncam.wgbh.org
madeleine_rothberg at wgbh.org

From: <Caid>, "Lisa M." <lcaid at mail.wtamu.edu<mailto:lcaid at mail.wtamu.edu>>
Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>>
Date: Friday, August 9, 2013 5:38 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Accessible GPS Bus Tracking Software

Dear ATHEN,

Is anyone aware of an accessible real time GPS bus tracking system for university bus tracking?

DoubleMap (http://www.doublemap.com/product) is an example GPS system, but they don’t seem to have an existing VPAT, (and we haven’t tested the product for 508 compliance).

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Lisa M. Caid
Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
West Texas A&M University
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