Exploring the world while seeing nothing
summary
A desktop and mobile application called Feel the streets lets blind users virtually walk cities by speaking street names, object types and distances using Orca screen reader output and optional braille displays; it runs cross‑platform on Linux and Windows, reads live OpenStreetMap data, enumerates nearby objects (demo shows 130 nearby items) and works but breaks when tags are missing (unnamed streets) or when platform changes like Wayland and regressions hide accessibility bugs.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:45Using a keyboard
- 1:22Screen reader
- 1:45Misleading information
- 2:03Applications that make little sense
- 2:58Hardware
- 3:50Password
- 5:15Speech
- 6:07Login Screen
- 6:53Notifications
- 12:42OpenStreetmap
- 13:24Sphero Streets
- 14:48Desktop Trash
- 22:31Conclusion
- 26:30Questions
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