How do I help a blind friend asking for help on SonarVision?
Short answer: Explain, prepare trips, map an area on OpenStreetMap.
Last updated About 2 months ago
Using SonarVision is a team effort, and as a sighter person, you play a very important role. On the one hand, some of SonarVision’s features are simply not accessible, such as editing a trip on a 2D map. On the other hand, by watching our tutorials and reading our guides, you can assist a blind or visually impaired user take their first steps with SonarVision.
Here are the 3 main things a SonarVision user might ask you for help with :
If you do not find an answer to your question in the docs, or if you find our answer lacking, please create a discussion on our forum so that we may address the problem as soon as possible: feedback.sonarvision.fr
Explain
Basically, blind or visually impaired users wish to use SonarVision because of its high accuracy.
You can therefore start by learning how our tool helps these users find more independence in their pedestrian trips.
We recommend you start here : Premiers pas avec l'application mobile
Prepare trips
Most of the time, blind or visually impaired users will want help with preparing trips on our online editing platform.
Here is how to do that : Créer un bon trajet
Mapping an area on OpenStreetMap
In order to prepare trips faster or to allow a SonarVision user to use automatic trips, you can map an area on OpenStreetMap :
Learn how : Cartographier sur OpenStreetMap