pathVu MOBILE SIDEWALK NAVIGATION
Navigate sidewalks faster and safer without barriers.
Every single person’s journey begins and ends on the sidewalk. See the condition of your sidewalk routes before you leave the house. Move more freely and arrive on time with greater confidence and less obstructions. Accessibly designed, comfort-level based routing and navigation for all people - of any ability.
pathVu navigation gives you foresight into the accessibility and walkability of your pedestrian routes so you can go about your day with confidence
HOW WE HELP PEDESTRIANS
Turn by turn sidewalk navigation customized to your unique pedestrian comfort level
Our pedestrian navigation is accessibly designed and uses real-time data driven maps to route pedestrians around sidewalk hazards and alert them to obstructions in their path based on their own unique comfortability levels.
Set your comfort level navigating obstacles
Customize your preferences to the types of routes you wish to travel. Your preferences are used to determine the route that best meets your abilities.
Receive a preview of your route
Preview your route with step-by-step directions and route quality information.
Receive obstruction alerts
Receive alert notifications to sidewalk quality conditions along your route and reduce uncertainty before youleave the house. See tripping hazards, curb ramp quality, missing sidewalks, and temporary structures such as construction that can impede your path.
Submit a report
Submit reports in real-time about the type, quality, location, and image of conditions as you pass by.
Universally designed
Our navigation app is designed to be intuitive and straightforward to use by people of all abilities. It utilizes large, high contrast, easily readable type sizes, and buttons and works with your favorite screen access solutions like Voice-over and Jaws. From the first use, pedestrians are guided to develop their own unique customizable pedestrian comfortability settings. Users can save and quickly access favorite routes and destinations. As you navigate sidewalks, users receive real-time audio and haptic feedback to enhance their ability to orient themselves, follow turn by turn directions, and avoid sidewalk hazards so every pedestrian can reach their chosen destination naturally and safely.
Simple and Intuitive
We’ve designed our app experience to be simple and understandable regardless of the user's experience, knowledge, cognitive skills, or current concentration level.
Speech to text
Submit reports about the type, quality, location, and image of hazards.
Voice over enabled
Voice over reads all text back to users, including those without text labels.
Audible real-time navigation
Hear about the path ahead with real-time step-by-step directions read out loud.
Orientation
Orientation helps those with visual impairments to orient themselves to their surroundings.
Accessible Experience
We’ve uncluttered our mobile UI and geared it towards users with low vision and mobility considerations with the use of large text, clearly labels buttons, and button placement.
Download the pathVu mobile navigation and crowdsourcing app. Free!
HOW WE USE CROWDSOURCING TO MAP AN EVER-CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
See something, snap something. Locate, snap and rate.
Easily report the location and severity of obstructions to help others on their journey.
Safer sidewalk navigation for all pedestrians - of any ability
Our pedestrian navigation and crowdsourcing app is accessibly designed to provide real-time data-driven maps and directions to pedestrians. Users are routed around sidewalk hazards and alerted to obstructions in their path based on their own unique comfortability levels so all pedestrians can travel safely and independently.
Download our pathVu navigation app. Free!
